Society must pay the cost of due process. That is expensive.
R. v. M.J.O., 2005 CanLII 50809: In 1958 I entered law school. In the 1958-59 academic year I enjoyed the great privilege of being taught criminal law by G. Arthur…
February 2014
1 out of 100 Calgary Co-op members vote.
It’s election season for Calgary Co-op. For the month of February if you’re a member-owner of Calgary Co-op you can select three of their nine-member board. Most people don’t know…
Forget “Angry Birds” Where are the Angry Canadians?
Saturday’s headline in Canada’s “newspaper of record”, The Globe and Mail, was not “Harper government caught spying on Canadians” but “Rob Ford admits jaywalking ticket in Vancouver”. Are you kidding…
Sad news about Philip Seymour Hoffman…
“Philip Seymour Hoffman, who won the Oscar for best actor in 2006 for his portrayal of writer Truman Capote in “Capote” and created a gallery of other vivid characters…was found…
philip seymour hoffman, 1967-2014
If you care about independent film, you’ve been following the career of Philip Seymour Hoffman since the early 1990s. For a while, he was nearly ubiquitous, appearing in one brilliant…
Selling Sex: Experience, Advocacy, and Research on Sex Work in Canada
As a Canadian sex Worker, I know too well how hard it can be to find a balanced, nuanced analysis of the lived experiences of people in my profession and…
Michigan police cuts the weave of a woman
What the Michigan police was trying to prove or achieve? It has become controversial and made an interesting headline: “Video showing cop forcibly cutting woman’s hair weave makes waves.” It…
Climate Change Denial And The Koch Brothers
Since April 2013 the number of Americans who do not believe global warming is happening has increased from 16 to 23 percent. Find out why here and in the following…
Tim Hortons History In Pictures
They’ve put together a slide-show. So far this is my favorite pic: The more things change, the more they remain the same.
No Matter How You Count Them, Fossil Fuel Subsidies Are As High As Ever
The exact worth of massive global fossil fuel subsidies is incredibly hard to figure. There’s no real consistency in the definitions of subsidies, or how they should be calculated. As…
Philip Seymour Hoffman – 46
Died in his apartment bathroom. Apparently drug overdose. A giant talent lost to the needle.
We Don’t Think Creator Canada’s Wes Smith or SOS Founder Max Hynes Like Us.
Some months ago, Creativity leader Wes Smith and Paul "Paulie" Fromm were featured in "This" magazine out of Toronto: Not long after, Smith was interviewed for a friendly Creativity online…
We Don’t Think Creator Canada’s Wes Smith or SOS Founder Max Hynes Like Us….
…. and more on "Odin TheCelt." Some months ago, Creativity leader Wes Smith and Paul "Paulie" Fromm were featured in "This" magazine out of Toronto: Not long after, Smith was…
Intense World Theory Of Autism? Or Just More Intense, Harmful Speculation?
My younger son will be 18 this month. He is severely autistic, with intellectual disability, and suffers from seizures for which he receives medication. He was diagnosed with an autistic…
New prostitution bill expected ‘well before’ deadline, MacKayAnt says
Inspired by this headline: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-prostitution-bill-expected-well-before-deadline-peter-mackay-says-1.2520073
Laptop Repair Time
I spent Saturday opening up an Acer Travelmate 7730 and got the logicboard out to confirm the power jack is pushed in. The pin at the back is clearly curved…
The Four Walls of My Freedom – Why I Wrote This Book
“The trick to helping communities find their own answers to caring for their citizens is not in locating charismatic leaders, but in forming “leader-full” alliances of of elected officials, bureaucrats,…
Feb. 2: This is not news……
…..and it’s not even analysis. This is simply thinking out loud about some extraordinary events that the Irving press hasn’t even noticed yet. It’s about Japan and China and the…