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…
2013
Putin Trips Up Obama
Russia has announced a plan to put Syrian government chemical weapons under the control of international monitors who will then destroy them. The proposal apparently is acceptable to Assad provided…
Bachmann Goes Batshit in Egypt
Michelle Bachmann links Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood with 9/11.
Nothing To See Here. Move Along.
A former parliamentary law clerk can’t see what possible benefit flowed from Nigel Wright’s $90,000 under the table payment to senator Mike Duffy and, accordingly, based on what he can’t…
Will the tax man catch up to the corporate slackers?
Globalization as we have come to know and love it is misnamed. As it advantages corporations while disadvantaging workers and governments, it might more appropriately be called corporatization or some…
I’m Back Online With Windows 8, Sort Of ;-)
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Good morning folks, Like many of you I spend a lot of time on computers, but am not all that savvy in many of the technical aspects.…
Digital Disconnect How Capitalism Is Turning the Internet Against Democracy
Robert McChesney, a communications theorist at Illinois, has written previously on the consolidation of American news media, and (more recently, with John Bellamy Foster) the mechanics of global capitalism. Here…
New comment rule
What HuffPo has done has inspired me. Along with my own previously-posted comment rules, here’s a new one: if I see a handle I don’t recognize – and particularly if…
Stephen Harper and Keystone Pipeline
Cartoon by Greg Perry. This cartoon says it all.
Sept. 9: Let’s start on a light note because ….
…the rest gets pretty heavy. On Saturday, Aurelle Pare, who always writes an excellent column on health, wrote one on an ear problem called tinnitus. It causes ringing in the…
Can a non party appeal?
Kutlesa v. Kutlesa, 2013 ONCA 549: There is a threshold problem today, however: Mr. Kotsiou was not, and is not, a party to the Family Law Actproceeding between the Kutlesas…
Ontario PC scheme to get McGuinty staffers fails
…like much else they do. What a colossal farce.
EI Premium Freeze Leaves Unemployed Canadians in the Cold
Today, finance minister Jim Flaherty announced a three-year freeze on Employment Insurance (EI) premiums, ostensibly because a stronger job market has alleviated the need for additional premium revenue. Under the…
Men: Never 100% Responsible for Rape?
I have no words, at least I thought I didn’t. It’s bad enough that men rape women, then modern culture shames women for wearing anything but a burlap sack. I…
Sask Premier Needs To Tone Down His ‘Country Bumpkin’ Schtick
“The NDP thinks Saskatchewan’s resource economy is a disease.”Brad WallPremier of Saskatchewan Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall is scheduled to meet with Federal New Democratic Party Leader, Tom Mulcair while the…
Syria, War and Children
It is sad that how war-torn areas impact children and what kind of life they live. To start with there are two million refugees from Syria in neighbouring countries and…