Will Stephen Harper Take a Walk in the Snow?
He hasn't been seen for days. He wasn't able to offer any support to a million victims of the ice storm.His weird Christmas message has some people in Ottawa wondering…
January 2014
As a hockey parent
…I have found this story really, really disturbing. I’ve followed it every day, even in far-flung New York. Hockey parents are mostly folks who just love their kids, and who…
Newsana: A News Aggregator To Help Keep People Informed and Engaged
“Our mission at Newsana, our goal, is ultimately to become the world’s arbiter of high-quality news, analysis, ideas and opinions” … The biggest problem with the online news experience right…
A Key Union Priority for 2014
Naomi Klein urges unions to join climate change fight Many groups are calling for significant and sufficient action to address climate change, which is fantastic. But unions have not been…
Aaaannnnd… they’re off!
Municipal election season opened in Ontario today and there will certainly be some interesting races in O Dot. Jeff Leiper will be a strong challenger to Katherine Hobbs in Kitchissippi…
Is the Great Recession Even Worse Than the Great Depressioon?
In 2008 when America’s economy tanked, the U.S. took down most of the developed world with it, particularly the Euro countries that had developed taste for made-in-America casino capitalism. Europe…
Ford should ditch their Off-grid Solar Vehicle Concept
Ford just released a solar powered variation on its C-MAX line of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV), with a unique selling point of being able charge off the grid. Skeptical…
Passing of Justice Webber
I knew him mainly as an arbitrator/mediator. He was a sensible lawyer and a very decent man; he will be missed. THE HONOURABLE JOHN B. WEBBER, Q.C. 1933 – 2013…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Thursday, January 2, 2014
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Thursday, January 2, 2014: From strippers to light bulbs: 2014 brings range of new rules Male, Female, Or…
I Am Nobody
Something for all disheartened Canadians to keep in mind, eh? Recommend this Post
Fiscal Fever
Earlier this week, Paul Krugman wrote that — in the United States at least — the fiscal fever has broken: So the good news is that this fever, unlike the…
Selling the LCBO: A primer for MPPs.
This is not ideological. It has nothing to do with right or left wing politics. Selling the Liquor Control Board of Ontario to private citizens has nothing whatsoever to do…
Seven Real Signs of Surrender
Responding to a story in Inside Higher Ed called Signs of Surrender in Public Higher Ed. John Warner uses as a metaphor the ‘surrender’ of the press, as follows: The…
Alberta faces onslaught of oilsands lawsuits
ACFN Chief Allan Adam outside an Alberta court in 2012, challenging Shell’s Jackpine development by Bob Weber, The Canadian Press EDMONTON – Simmering disputes over the oilsands between Alberta aboriginals…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Costas Lapavitsas discusses the disproportionate hold finance has over the global economy: Financialisation represents a historic and deep-seated transformation of mature capitalism.…
Toronto needs a mayor: the Mayor Crackhead timeline
To win, this SOB needs you to forget some or all of his many crimes and misdemeanours. There’s plenty of them, so he actually has a shot at that. As…
ConCalls: No One Came #RoboCon
Are we lacking a critical mass of Canadians sufficiently outraged by widespread election fraud in the last general election to protest for government and system change, because Canadian youth never…
Stephen Harper and the Great Betrayal
The other day I wrote about how Stephen Harper had betrayed the people of Central and Eastern Canada.By shrugging off the suffering of an estimated one MILLION Canadians who lost…
The 2013 SRBP Themes (Part 3) #nlpoli
Government is about making decisions. In trying to understand what is going on, how governments make decisions is sometimes more important than what decisions get made. That’s why SRBP has…