Cardinals Know the Day
I heard cardinals singing this morning. They know the days are getting longer. – A One minute longer than yesterday. Filed under: Uplifting Tagged: city birds
2013
"The Truth Must Be Told"
By substituting the name of your own country for ‘America’ and ‘person’ for ‘man’, I think you will agree that Martin Luther King’s message in the following speech is timeless:…
Saturday At The Movies
#MenLetsTalk
Stephen Harper and the Force of Destruction
It's almost unbelievable that a Canadian Prime Minister could ignore the suffering of so many.But six days after a massive ice storm struck, and although tens of thousands of people…
Musical interlude
Tenishia – Where Do We Begin (Andrew Rayel Remix)
There’s This Thing Called "Due Process"
Just a few days ago, I wrote about how we are experiencing an emerging police state. Today, we find Edmonton’s Chief of Police demanding additional powers to seize vehicles that…
Bail conditions not reasonably connected to purposes of bail are unconstitutional
R. v. Thompson, 2013 NSPC 124: The purposes of a constitutional bail system were described by Lamer J. (as he then was) in R. v. Morales. They are not hard…
Friday night blues blogging
I missed last Friday night for health reasons. I wanted to play catch up on the next couple of evenings but repeated blackouts in this neck of this woods made…
Big Apple bound
Lala and me are headed to NYC as I thumb this. Tasks: • See Patti Smith • Sleep • Attend de Blasio swearing-in In regard to that last one, watch…
Disaster politics
And the great Christmas 2013 blackout continues. As you guys know, I am kind of obsessed with the confluence of disasters and politics. Of such things are political careers made…
Manning and Press Gallery ethics and a question
Media folks are unimpressed, and rightly so, about Presto’s bizzaro column, here. The whole thing hangs on Manning’s claim that Mike Duffy had been lobbying for a Senate appointment “for…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Paul Krugman comments on the role of fear in boosting employers’ authority over workers: The fact is that employment generally involves a power…
Bezos, You Bozo, It’s Still Just Another Job-Killing Warehouse
I’m coming to loathe Amazon even if that intrudes on the loathing space I have for WalMart. Amazon, like WalMart, isn’t exactly employment-friendly. It doesn’t create jobs in your community,…
It Doesn’t Sound Crazy Unless You Think About It.
Stephen Harper has this knee-jerk instinct to deregulate just about anything he can. Captain Listeria did a wonderful job handing self-regulation to the meat packing industry. On his watch the…
Ice Storm 2013: It’s still an emergency, and the PM is still missing in inaction
Canadian soldiers, summoned by Mayor Mel Lastman, clean up the streets of Toronto after the big dump of 1999. Below: Mr. Lastman. (Photos grabbed from the Toronto Star.) More days…
Peter Essick Chronicles Climate Change in Photo Essay
Here are a few photos taken by NatGeo photog Peter Essick to record climate change impacts We begin in Athabasca with an image of a Tar Sands tailing pond. Don’t…
Only one civil standard of proof – balance of probabilities
McLean v. McLean, 2013 ONCA 788 makes very clear there is only one civil standard of proof – balance of probabilities: The trial judge held that Helen was required to…
Science Links Arctic Melt to Our Climate Mayhem
Most of us had this figured out but a team of Chinese and American researchers have inked the link between Arctic snow and ice loss and the devastating heat waves,…