Harper Government Is a “Porn Spy”
The last Parl. Sec. for Stephen Harper is being charged with election fraud. The present one isn’t a bright bulb either. Harper govt's response to our new CBC story RT…
January 2014
Prince Charles – Climate Change Skeptics are ‘Headless Chickens’
Every voice helps. The man who may yet be King has dismissed climate change denialists as a bunch of ‘headless chickens.” The Prince of Wales has launched an attack on…
Quick, Buy a Lottery Ticket
From CBC News, amazing photos of the luckiest family in Italy. A landslide in Ronchi de Tormeno dislodged a couple of monster boulders that rolled downhill. One took out a…
Live or Die. That’s the Choice.
This is pretty succinct – “Heed the warnings in extreme weather – or risk losing Earth.” The idea is that when Atlanta, Georgia is frozen to a standstill and yet,…
Piercing the Corporate Veil
Shoppers Drug Mart Inc. v. 6470360 Canada Inc. (Energyshop Consulting Inc./Powerhouse Energy Management Inc.), 2014 ONCA 85: I agree with Shoppers that the motions judge did not refer toFleischer. Fleischer…
GOOOOOOOOOOOOD morning Canada!
So, how was your long sleep? In this week’s newz, the Biebs turned himself in on an assault charge, and the media circus we shall call Cirque’DUH! Rob Ford is…
A brilliant tactical move: Justin Trudeau kicks out Liberal Senators
Sometimes you have to give credit where credit is due: Justin Trudeau just pulled a brilliant tactical move with his unexpected and unceremonious dumping of all former Liberal Senators from…
As If We Needed Another Reason to Boycott Nestle
You might remember Switzerland, the country that played banker to some really evil dudes in the 30s and 40s. And banker to a whole bunch of lying, cheating but very…
Repost: Say YES to Senate Appointments
Below is a blog I posted in December of 2008. Here’s the scoop … we need more Senators. More specifically, the Conservative Senators need help. Being so few, they are…
Repost: Say YES to Senate Appointments
Below is a blog I posted in December of 2008. Here's the scoop … we need more Senators. More specifically, the Conservative Senators need help. Being so few, they are…
Repost: Say YES to Senate Appointments
Below is a blog I posted in December of 2008. Here’s the scoop … we need more Senators. More specifically, the Conservative Senators need help. Being so few, they are…
Social Determinants: $11 an hour simply not enough
As health care providers news of the increase in minimum wage is important – as we stated in 2013, poverty is the second leading cause of death in this country.…
We can’t afford four more years of Ford
This has been pinging around the Internet this morning – I first saw it on the Twitter feed of someone I follow who is out in Vancouver. Anyway – dunno…
Jan. 31: political games and the Senate
It’s no secret. The Senate has, for all of its history, been a collection of political toadies and hacks A few senators, but only a few, have had anything noticeable…
Getting Rid of Hydrocarbons: Good News from Denmark
Today’s La Presse has an excellent and thought-provoking story about Denmark and its long term plans to quite using fossil fuels by 2050. And this in a country which has…
Environmental hearing process not working for public
The 3-member panel reviewing Site C Dam has complained about the volume of documents from BC Hydro Read this Jan. 27 letter to the editor in the Vancouver Sun by…
reminders why feminism is still relevant
It has been one of those weeks where I think about feminism lots. And basically as a married, white woman living a rather isolated life as a homeschool mother and…
Harper Now Has His Own Secret Police
A feature of totalitarian states around the world is a “secret” police force that is engaged in spying on a nation’s citizens and keeping them in line with implicit threats…