Windfarm Wankers
The source of wind-turbine illness has been tracked down. The source is anti-wind farm campaigners who make people think those windmills are going to make them sick. Let’s call them…
2013
ConCalls: Penashue Hush Money From Conservatives – Working Closely with #RoboCon
I think it’s fair to call the money paid by the Conservatives back to Canadians, in lieu of disgraced Minister Peter Penashue repaying us, as hush money, akin to bribery.…
More On Harper’s Censorship of Science
The other day I wrote a post about the Harper regime’s ongoing efforts and measures designed to thwart government transparency; the Prime Minister’s abuse of power is most flagrant in…
What is the best NHL logo–response
http://zorgreport.blogspot.ca/search/label/Sports%20-%20Hockey (you have to scroll down) ( Well, I had meant to put this simply as a response to my own post. However, googleminds does not allow more than a…
The Escalating War on Labour
We hear that Ontario’s ongoing dispute with teachers is about extra curricular activities and the deficit. It’s about neither. Tom Walkom writes in the Toronto Star: At its heart, this…
Inflammatory questions in cross examination
Desharnais v. Parkhurst and Romanowski, 2013 BCCA 113 deals with inflammatory questions put during cross examination: The plaintiff relies on R. v. Fanjoy, 1985 CanLII 53 (SCC), 2 S.C.R. 233,…
Name That Song: A Contest
I think it’s high time we had a contest around here! Simon (the African Grey parrot) has spent several hours a day over the past few weeks practicing a song.…
Sad Spaceman regrets the broken promises …
Yes, he’s back. More in the Sad Spaceman Tumblr here. Alltop never went anywhere.
You call that a blizzard?
Iqaluit was under a blizzard advisory last night. I expected to be trapped forever in the Storehouse Bar (I suppose there are worse places to be trapped). In fact there…
Evaluating a MOOC
I was asked (along with Dave Cormier and George Siemens): “How might it be possible to show that cMOOCs are effective for learning, in the sense of providing evidence that…
Ending Fossil Fuel’s War On Us And The Planet
I’m on a (low-carbon) holiday for the next while, with little access to a computer, so please accept my apologies for delayed responses or posting of comments. All should be…
Gruending On The New Pope
How deep was he in with the Argentine generals? Actually, its kind of hard to say. But he hates communists, that’s for damn sure.
Hobson’s Choice #nlpoli
The provincial Conservatives love to spend public money. That doesn’t sound very conservative and it isn’t. Politically, the provincial Conservatives in Newfoundland and Labrador are more like Republicans than the…
Jimbo Flaherty and the Porky Action Monster
Well as you know today was St Patrick's Day, and no doubt wee little Jimbo Flaherty was running around looking for the pot of gold.The one he lost when he…
Deafness, speech and the Performance of Gender
Deafness, speech and the Performance of Gender This weekend I had the privilege of participating in a conference on Disability and Ableism at Ryerson University. Let me just say first…
Government of the Blue Meanies
This is so amazingly mean-spirited and petty, its actually embarrassing to read.In October, 2011, the Harper Youth in the Privy Council Office worked all weekend just to disappear Parks Canada’s…
5754…Is Senator Mike Duffy Lying Yet Again?
Apparently. Jordan Press of Postmedia News wrote a story that ran from sea to shining sea ten days ago that indicated that even though Mike Duffy, the Senator from Prince…
Some moments in my life are truly awesome
Mallory said this to me after we got back from her Oma and Opa’s place this afternoon. Don’t know what she was thinking of but I thought of her going…
Doug Christie: The Truth Will Out (Part I)
When deciding where to start our discussion of the late Doug Christie's views on race, we decided that we would start with the political sphere. Christie was a long-time Western…
New Math
“Takoda and Wesley are collecting shells on the beach in identical pails. Takoda estimates she has filled 7/12 of her pail. Wesley estimates he has filled 4/10 of his pail.…