A Look at Kent
While everyones in a tizzy over the upcoming Labrador by-election, few outside of New Brunswick have paid attention to another important by-election in Atlantic Canada – that being of the…
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2013 Essay Contest
2013 may be your lucky year! The details of this year’s PEF student essay contest are now online. Please note the May 3 deadline and put up this poster to…
Best political spot ever
Adrian Dix’s B.C. NDP release an attack ad on themselves. Absolute genius.
In Detroit, Pro-Democracy Movement Rises Against ‘Disaster Capitalism’
As new ‘emergency manager’ Kevin Orr takes over in ‘bloodless coup,’ community plans revolt By: Jon Queally | Common Dreams: Community and pro-democracy activists in Detroit have no intention of…
The Pill Too Bitter to Swallow
Oddly enough, they tend to be Republicans or at least they were in years past. Most of them were prominent insiders in Republican administrations up to but rarely past the…
Hill Times: True-dough
Here: “Liberal front-runner Justin Trudeau has raised more than $1-million as a candidate for leadership of the third party in the House of Commons which “says a lot,” say a…
Former diplomat who hung out with the Klan and neo-Nazis hates me
I can live with that.
A Few Days To Spill, Part II
More on that Canadian oil wrecking what looks to be a pretty little residential street in the Arkansas Town of Mayflower. Don’t worry, American friends, there’s plenty more where that…
April Fool’s, etc. etc.
Suckered, apparently, were Lono, Calda (briefly), Bruce A., Friesen, and Patrick. Gotcha! (And, yes, the timestamp is off. And, no, I don’t know how to fix it.)
Canada’s Information Commissioner to probe Harper’s muzzling of scientists
By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive: Canada’s Information Commissioner Suzanne Legault has acceded to a request by the Environmental Law Centre at the University of Victoria and Democracy…
On Boredom
I’m not talking about the “nausea of ennui” discussed from Seneca (“many who judge life to be not bitter, but superfluous”) to Sartre, that total lack of interest in anything…
India’s Supreme Court Paves the Way for Cheaper Pharmaceuticals
India continues to pave the way for providing cheaper generic drugs for its citizens compared to other nations which have a heavy patent system. Previously India has produced drugs for…
Kevin Page Reflects upon the Past 5 years.
A must read published in the Star. “ I took the job when it was agreed that a few amazing and fearless public servants would join — namely, Mostafa Askari…
5806…April First First Day Of An Exciting Month
This is the month that the next Prime Minister of Canada will be chosen by Liberals all across Our Home And Native Land. Plus baseball starts, The Big Dance, The…
April 1:April Fool………..
well, I have to assume the TandT staff did go to church for Easter Sunday – and stayed there all day. There is certainly no evidence they worked on today’s…
North Korea Sabre Rattling: Flash from the Past…and the Future?
Over the Easter weekend my head has been elsewhere, so it is only this morning that I caught up on the back-and-forth going on in the two Koreas. Will the…
CRTC is wrong for cable TV by Gwyn Morgan
Columnist suggests the CRTC remove mandatory-carriage status altogether in favour of allowing consumers to choose their own channel packages la carte.
Some Inspiration From Kevin Page
There is an excellent piece in this morning’s Star by outgoing Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page. In it, he talks about how his son’s death was the catalyst for his…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Lori Theresa Waller provides her own take on the Canadian Foundation for Labour Rights’ study on labour rights and inequality: In the 1970s,…
140Law – Legal Headlines for Monday, April 1, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Monday, April 1, 2013: Mississauga Mayor Hazel McCallion faces conflict of interest hearing Stress Reduction for Lawyers and…