Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Yves Smith notes that a short-sighted focus on returns for shareholders generally represents a poor allocation of resources even on the level of…
March 2014
Provincial election: there’s one happening, unless there isn’t
An Ontario provincial election is happening! An Ontario provincial election isn’t happening! LOL, as they say. Journalism is fun. .
Harper endorses Rob Anders and more nomination updates
TweetWith Dave Hancock being sworn-in as the 15th Premier of Alberta and speculation running rampant about who will replace him in four to six months, I thought now would be…
Getting solid numbers makes sense
I recently was directed to read a statement that I had “…put forward a notice of motion calling on the municipality to spend the money to put a concrete floor…
Ontario Election…Or No? Which is it?
The Star is bullish on an election call: The minority Liberal government doesn’t intend to negotiate with the New Democrats in order to get their support for the spring budget,…
Groundhog Day in Quebec: Another Boomer-Driven Lose-Lose Election
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up…
dispatches from ola 2014, part 3: hip-hop programming in the library
My final post about the OLA Super Conference sessions I attended saves the best for last. “Sub-Urban Beats: Hip-Hop Programming in the Library” thrilled me with possibilities. Even more exciting,…
We Need An Election
It’s time for a federal election. They want to change fundamental Canadian rights, and oppose laws in our Constitution that they didn’t get a mandate for in their crooked 2011…
Whither The NDP?
Murray Dobbin writes that our political system is ill equipped to deal with crises: Our political system’s greatest flaw is not the first-past-the-post voting system. It is the fact that…
Dear Mr. Trudeau
You wanted “independent” Senators? Well, you got ‘em. And this one in particular – my friend Senator Downe – knows where the bodies are buried around Parliament Hill. He’s not…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Monday, March 24, 2014
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Monday, March 24, 2014: Rob Ford says he was imitating Hulk Hogan in violent rant video Turkish Lawyers…
Making a ‘do-nothing’ look good.
This is embarrassing. The Ontario Liberal government has a cabinet minister responsible for next year’s Pan Am Games who makes the Conservative MPP from Barrie look good. The Liberal cabinet…
C’Mon, We’ve All Been Thinking It
And now, thanks to Michael de Adder, we’ve got a picture to go along with those thoughts: Recommend this Post
Research Shows Some Test Methods Miss 99 Percent of Radium in Fracking Waste
Every year, fracking generates hundreds of billions of gallons of wastewater laced with corrosive salts, radioactive materials and many other chemicals. Because some of that wastewater winds up in rivers…
Setting the record straight on Meech Lake… again #nlpoli #cdnpoli
There may be nothing new in documents from the federal cabinet in June 1990 about the failure of the Meech Lake Accord. After all, Brian Mulroney and the federal Conservatives…
Pierre Poilievre and the Bill That Must Be Killed
Golly. When Parliament returns today I bet Pierre Poilievre is going to wish he was on the run somewhere in Europe like his ghastly leader, the feathered warrior Chicken Harper.For…
Occupy Wall Street Returns. Friday!
Occupy Returns! This Friday! Ladies and gentlemen, citizens of the world, the 99%: Occupy Wall St. returns on Friday. And not for one day. But we’re starting with 3 months.…
Is Stephen Harper Preparing to Reappoint Marc Nadon?
I can hardly believe it, so disturbing, so absolutely insane is the idea.Stephen Harper has just been slapped in the face by the Supreme Court for trying to appoint a…
Everyone must do their duty for Canada – even Sun News Network ideologues
Admiral Horatio Nelson gives up his life in the service of his country on the deck of HMS Victory on Oct. 21, 1805. Below: Horatio Nelson; his famous signal to…