In the dining room, an OOPs moment
Link to copy of original job offer
2013
Content with content?
Once upon a time, there was a young man who loved ponies. Nobody thought this was odd because there wasn’t a gender-specific expectation related to the love of diminutive equines.…
BC Fed and Christy Clark Join In an Unholy But Sadly Predictable Alliance!
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes-Political Blogger Well the cat has been set out with the canaries now. We are going to get a real good look at who stands where in this…
Kerry accidently talks the U.S. out of war
It’s tough being aggressively diplomatic. The propaganda spectre required to convince people that war is necessary for peace definitely isn’t easy to pull off. It took the shock and awe…
Mining the Family Farm
Monday, September 9, 2013 BC’s archaic mining laws have a real cost for BC communities, their environment and their economies. This blog post is the first in a series that…
Contract interpretation
Northwest Plaza Ltd. v. Zellers Inc. and Target Canada Co., 2013 NBCA 54: According to classical contract theory, the interpretive issue involves a search for the intention of the parties…
In Tuesday’s Sun: war’s casualties
Saying that truth is a casualty of war isn’t new. It’s the world’s oldest declaration, you might say. Syria is no different. Monday, Syrian despot Bashar al-Assad gave an interview…
Feds Spend Tax Money to Justify Northern Gateway Pipeline Project
The following text has been modified slightly from text which was recently submitted as a letter to the Editor of a local newspaper with general circulation in Greater Sudbury. At…
Whither climate change litigation and compensation?
Monday, September 9, 2013 Many people seem surprised when I mention the possibility that greenhouse gas emitting companies may one day be held liable for the damages caused by climate…
Union leaders support BC Liberal LNG program
Read this Sept. 9 story fromt he Canadian Press on the decision made by several prominent BC union leaders to work with the BC Liberal Government on developing a liquefied…
Stephen Harper and the Dangerous Senator Duffy
Well I see that the former Law Clerk of Parliament believes that Mike Duffy may have committed no crime. Rob Walsh, who was Parliament's top legal adviser until 2012, says…
Failing the modern Turing test is so vexatious
Here’s a CAPTCHA I just got. As you can see, my attempt was not accepted. Other characters I can see in this captcha, starting from the bottom left and moving…
University of Tennessee "Frackademia" Program Put to Rest, For Now
University of Tennessee-Knoxville’s “frackademia” program proposal – set to transform UT’s Institute of Agriculture into a de facto fracking land leasing agency – has been put to rest for now,…
Globe and Mail: Bell wants to block indie providers from reaching cell phone users
In case you’re keeping count, it isn’t the first time Big Telecom has gone to court in recent months to battle against wireless choice for Canadian cell phone users. If…
New coalition revved up about wake boats on public waterways
Not your grandfather’s lake boat: powerful, modern “wake boats” kick up waves and protest All across Canada, Canadian communities, mostly small, face great difficulties in trying to establish regulations regarding…
CBSC Dings Ezra
Ottawa, September 9, 2013 – The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC) today released its decision concerning comments made about “Gypsies” on Sun News Network. During his program The Source, Ezra…
Stand ALL Yr Groundz (UPDATED)
You can take the homicidal gun nut out of the justice system… George Zimmerman’s estranged wife called police officers to her father’s house in Florida Monday, saying the former neighborhood…
George Zimmerman’s wife called police for help
Zimmerman got away with murder of Trayvon Martin and gun has become a little toy for him. Joe Burbank / Pool via AP file “Florida police are investigating a dispute…
Assad of Syria agrees to put chemical weapons’ stockpile under international control
Russia asked Syria to put chemical weapons stockpile under international control and Assad has agreed to that. Will that stop U.S. strike against Syria? “Syria welcomes a Russian proposal to…
Louisiana Governor Jindal Not Buying BP Spin on Gulf Coast Impacts
Have environmental priorities finally trumped extreme right wing politics in the deep south? Louisiana’s Republican governor Bobby Jindal has heard enough from oil giant BP, taking them to task recently…