Fukuchiyama, Japan: Flooding
A residential area in Fukuchiyama, Kyoto Prefecture, flooded because of Typhoon Man-yi. – Kyodo News via AP It looks Japan is not getting much break lately. Too many natural disasters.
2013
Shadows: a Blog Tour
Recently, I heard about Tundra Books doing a blog tour for Paula Weston’s “Shadows”. I have done a blog tour for Tundra Books before, and it was a great experience.…
Should Latin Return to Ontario Schools?
When I was a young lad, all I ever wanted to be was a paleontologist. Dinosaurs were the most important thing in my life until around age 14 or 15.…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – It shouldn’t be a surprise that more people are pointing out the importance of effective regulation in preventing disasters like the Lac-Mégantic explosion.…
CanadiAnt Taxpayers Federation Demands Accountability, but Not for Itself
Inspired by this headline: http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2013/09/17/Canadian-Taxpayers-Federation-Accountability/
Policy pillars for the 2015 election.
Nobody wants to reveal their plan too early. The key is to take ownership of the key issue(s) at a time when your opponents are already committed and can only…
Scotland Starts Europe’s Largest Tidal Wave Energy Installation
Tidal wave energy installations are nothing new, but installing it on a scale that can power 42,000 homes is. The other day, the Scottish government gave the go ahead for…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Wednesday, September 18, 2013: Victory: Ontario will apologize to institutional survivors Stephen Hawking: Those in great pain should…
Canadians should celebrate the "retail bloodbath"
Recently there has been a series of news reports giving pointless publicity to whiny Canadian retailers. Notable examples include Rona, Loblaws, Metro and in the most egregious example of long-term…
More On The Minimum Wage
The struggle to raise the minimum wage has been the subject of several of my recent posts. The current wage of $10.25 in Ontario is as inadequate as the $7.25…
Unpaid Internships
The latest entry point in the job market is the unpaid internship. Young people are told that an internship will help them get their feet in someone’s door and on…
Good for Facebook
They get knocked a lot. But on this occasion, they acted swiftly and in the right way. Her family has suffered enough.
Pauline Marois: Her proposed Charter of Hate-Values
It is already having an impact as a Muslim woman was harassed on a city bus by a bigoted moron. Also a mosque in Saguenay was attacked and disfigured. “A…
Stephen Harper and friends
Stooge meets stooges.
Big Oil PR Pros, Lobbyists Dominate EDF Fracking Climate Study Steering Committee
Alongside releasing its controversial findings on fugitive methane emissions caused by hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) on September 16, University of Texas-Austin also unveiled an industry-stacked Steering Committee roster for the study…
On Intolerance In Quebec And Elsewhere
Bernie Farber has a nice piece on his Huffpo page. From it: In invoking this so-called “Charter of Quebec Values” the Quebec government has taken a dangerous step into poisonous…
Veracity #nlpoli
Not so long ago one of the frequent claims people in the conventional media used to make about “blogsters” was that you couldn’t trust what they wrote because it might…
The Senate Scandal: How Did Harper Not Know?
Well as you know it's been hard to know what went on in the PMO as the Mike Duffy scandal was breaking. And the Cons were in a frenzy trying…
The Day Joe Oliver Collided with Robert Redford
OMG. How embarrassing. I see that old Con man Joe Oliver just won't give up. Once he tried to fool us into thinking that the water from the tar ponds…