Night
I love the night – every bit as much as I love the day. And fortunately, in the country, you can actually experience the night, since it is not drowned…
January 2014
Seclusion
I feel like Strider, living in voluntary exile. And that is more than alright. Seclusion is sometimes a good thing. More can be done in solitude than in the midst…
Stephen Harper Declares War on Canada?
Why is Stephen Harper pushing Canada in the wrong direction when it come to Middle Eastern policy?
Further to York University’s Discrimination Issues…
If you haven’t heard, a York University prof denied a student’s request to work in all male groups for religious reasons. York’s Centre for Human Rights suggested the student should…
Harper’s planeload to Israel
Headlines in the news trumpet the fact that the Prime Minister has taken a group of 208 (!) supporters to Israel, many at Canadian taxpayers’ expense. Reading through the list…
Oilsands proponents have yet to describe the infinite growth ‘end game’
When it comes to oilsands development, I’ve always found it more useful to try to argue the flawed economics as opposed to the environmental impact. Not that the environmental impact…
Rob Anders … Wants To Resurrect What?
Apparently, Rob Anders thinks that we need to resurrect the old “Rape” laws. He wants anyone convicted of rape to serve a mandatory minimum of eight years in prison for…
Harper’s New Anti-Semitism
Few things make me angrier than the propensity of the far right to twist things. In today’s speech to Israel’s Knesset, we find this lovely little gem: “A state, based…
Stephen Harper’s Goons Go After Our Medical Libraries
He would burn the books of those who monitor the health of our oceans lakes, and rivers.Now he's going after those who would monitor the health of Canadians.Now he's going…
Aboriginal justice is real justice
Sitting in Court at Arctic Bay today I listened as Inuit accused admitted their acts and then were admonished by the Elders. Normally in the South when an accused is…
Rumours should only be a Johnny Crawford song
BY Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission Earlier today, I thought that a piece of news might be forthcoming on the Internet based on something I read. I’m…
85 Richest People on Earth = Bottom Half of Mankind
Take mankind, all 7+-billion of us. Then take the collective wealth of the bottom 3.5 billion. Compare that to the net worth of the wealthiest 85-individuals on the planet. Bingo,…
Dear Leader Is In Israel
So, Harper is running around Israel blathering on about how Canada will blindly support Israel no matter what happens. Frankly, Harper is acting like a little boy in short pants…
Leaks by NSA whistleblower prompt review of spy agency CSEC’s policies
New documents reveal how ultra-secretive spy agency CSEC responded to revelations of unaccountable and reckless spying on law-abiding Canadian citizens. Article by Jim Bronskill for The Canadian Press: OTTAWA –…
Nearly one in four Canadians worried about affording health care
There’s much hand-wringing about the results of a new Commonwealth Fund International Health Policy Survey sponsored in part by the soon-to-be defunct Health Council of Canada. While the media focus…
First They Came For DFO’s Libraries, Now They’re Shutting Down Health Canada’s.
The main Health Canada research library is being shut down, sending scientists scrambling.Recently retired Health Canada pathologist, Rudi Mueller, put it this way, “I look at it as an insidious…
The NHL Gladiator Pimps
Risking player’s brain trauma for profit makes the NHL a gladiator pimp organization. At some point, as estimates continue to roll in, the NHL accountants and lawyers will realize that…
Wildrose fundraised more than the Alberta PCs in 2013
TweetThe Wildrose Party raised more than the long-governing Progressive Conservatives in last year’s party fundraising, according to Elections Alberta financial disclosure reports released last week. The financial reports show Danielle…
California Balancing on a Knife Edge
California’s Monterey Basin oil field is believed to hold reserves of more than 13-billion barrels. That, for California, is the good news. After that, the news is all bad. The…