A trial run
CSEC used airport Wi-Fi to track Canadian travellers: Edward Snowden documents A top secret document retrieved by U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden and obtained by CBC News shows that Canada’s electronic…
January 2014
Harper’s Conservatives Further Damaging Canada
Are Harper’s CONs completely out of touch? Don’t they realize this is a multicultural country? Harper’s CONs seem to have no use for Muslims, given statements by Harper’s Chief of…
Sunrise on New Moon
(click to enlarge) Part of my project for 2014 is to pay attention to the day. Every morning I jot down in a notebook the time of sunrise and sunset,…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Ken Georgetti discusses how the corporate tax giveaways of the past 15 years have hurt most Canadians: The Conservative government and special…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Thursday, January 30, 2014
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Thursday, January 30, 2014: Counsel, Your Crystal Ball Is Busted… Judge removed from divorce case after sending one…
Putting A Face On Minimum-Wage Poverty
Last evening I watched a fascinating documentary on PBS’ Nature* about the black crested macaque, a monkey that is endemic to rainforests in Indonesia, which includes the island of Sulawesi.…
A Force To Be Reckoned With
Yesterday, Justin Trudeau gave Stephen Harper and Tom Mulcair migraines. Micheal den Tandt writes: In one bold, risky and unexpected gambit, Justin Trudeau has turned the national debate about the…
Harper has his hair, Trudeau has balls.
Canadians now know the definitive difference between Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau. And it is not just that Trudeau takes action and Harper takes your money.…
New column day
Here, questioning the Saskatchewan Party’s belief that meeting the province’s constitutional duty to provide correctional centre inmates with the basic necessities of life isn’t a “core” government function. For further…
Justin Trudeau’s Bold Masterstroke On Senate Issue Makes Him A Super Genius
“Well a lot of them are going to die soon, anyway.” If Justin Trudeau is able to piss further, it is by standing on the shoulders of such giants as…
Trudeau puts his money where his mouth is
In a surprisingly bold move, Justin Trudeau has shown he doesn’t support the status quo in the senate. He has taken the most significant action in senate reform in our…
Future of the Senate
One of the more important but little noticed things to come out of all the Senate talk yesterday was the ruling of the speaker. Speaker Kinsella read off the rules…
350 or bust 2014-01-30 08:21:22
* Thank you, President Obama, for using your “bully pulpit” to publicly confirm the accuracy of climate science. Now, what the world needs is action based on the science, not…
Bieber = Music Industry Fail
Beiber’s antics simply reflect his management’s desperate last grasp to get ‘air time’ in an age when they can’t.
PotashCorp Projects Low Royalties
Today’s fourth-quarter report indicates that PotashCorp paid “provincial mining and other taxes” of $194 million on potash sales of $3 billion in 2013. In other words, Saskatchewan’s resource surcharge and…
Two Big Reasons Why Solar Power is Under Siege
Forget the U.S. war on coal, that’s not going so well for the team in the charcoal jerseys. The real shooting war has opened up against renewable energy, particularly solar,…
Winter Olympics: Naked Fire Luge, Bottomless Ski Jumping, Explo-Curling
Naked Fire Luge Though not as dangerous as skurlington, naked fire luge, is, in many ways, a much more exciting sport for the viewer. The luge run is ringed by…
i am really a librarian: in which i attend my first ola, and get paid for it, too
For the next three days, I’ll be attending the Ontario Library Association’s annual Superconference, always referred to simply as “OLA”. As the name implies, this is a gigantic conference covering…
Trudeau’s Risky Gamble
A Red Chamber without any reds Its been a month since I last wrote on this blog, and if there are any regular readers out there that missed my…
Warman wins again
To the defendants, meanwhile, we say: good riddance to bad garbage. May your misery be long and deep.