The Fountain of Youth contains….water?
GC and I marched in the Pride parade last weekend! First time for both of us. I was working there and GC volunteered to pitch in. It was a terrific…
2013
Economists for Linda McQuaig
Forty economists, including many Progressive Economics Forum members, have signed the following statement (PDF version): We write to endorse Linda McQuaig’s candidacy for the upcoming federal by-election in Toronto Centre.…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Tuesday, September 3, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Tuesday, September 3, 2013: ‘Sovereign citizen’ movement worrying officials as 30,000 claim they ‘freed’ themselves from Canada’s law…
Anyone still making fax machines? I found a buyer for you
Microsoft. I don’t usually comment on technology stories but this is Onionesque. Surely if Microsoft wants to regain its position as a technology leader/force to be reckoned with/etc etc it…
A Protest Song About the NSA Reading Your Emails
The band YACHT has gone back to the glory days of Dylan and the like by writing a protest song. The song is about the NSA illegal spying the USA,…
In breach of trust cases, restitution is proper even if repayment unlikely
R. v. Castro 2010 ONCA 718 holds: 28 Insofar as the nature of the offence is concerned, in cases involving breach of trust, the paramount consideration is the claims of…
A Restaurant To Avoid
Were I a Toronto resident, Richtree Market, a restaurant located in the Eaton Centre, is a business I would refuse to patronize. Its union-busting tactics should appall anyone who cares…
A duplicitous Charles Sousa?
An old friend down in Windsor has posited in a blog that Ontario Finance Minister Charles Sousa is running a covert campaign for Kathleen Wynne’s job. While it is a…
Buyer’s Remorse
Even as Stephen Harper repeats his mantra that he knows best how to manage the economy, the ground is shifting under his feet. The Hill Times reports that: The Conservatives…
Thag not grok big bottoms!
The trip back to the Drunka Grunka’s lands would be a long one — of all the Grunka tribes, the Drunkas lived the farthest away from the place of the…
Why We Do What We Do
It’s TED Talk Tuesday, and today’s video is Rev. Michael Dowd’s 2012 TEDx Talk which reexamines faith traditions and what science is now revealing about human nature and instincts: The…
Province chops tax breaks for two companies #nlpoli
On August 1, the provincial cabinet revoked tax breaks granted to two companies in the province under the Economic Development and Growth Enterprises (EDGE) program. Order-in-Council 2013-218 states that cabinet…
Why It’s Time to Chase the Dream in Harperland
And so ended, unofficially at least, the summer of 2013. Another Labour Day parade has marched into memory. The Snowbirds have drawn a giant heart in the sky and departed.…
Amazing encounter with Orca pod caught on camera
Check out this amazing encounter with a large pod of orca on BC’s south coast. The home video, captured in Active Pass, off Galiano Island, has garnered well over 300,000…
When You Look At It This Way, Digging Dead Things Out of the Ground Only to Kill Live Things Above the Ground is Madness.
We have become a world obsessed with digging carbon out of the ground and transporting it into our atmosphere just as fast as possible. We say we’re not, but the…
RoboCall Scandal – Breakthrough Imminent? Stay Tuned.
“Hard to imagine how they thought they could manipulate this issue.” “Stay tuned.” Word reaches the island to brace for some breakthrough on the robocall scandal, possibly as soon as…
Sending a message
Daily Kos: And away we go: I wonder if Obama backed off a unilateral strike against Syria at least partly because the usual gang of idiots jumped out of the…
On the Road Again, For the First Time.
*Note of correction: After further reading Paul Godsmark's blog with regards to the public transit impact of a self-driving car, I have corrected the post. My initial comment that his…