Calgary’s most famous NAMBLA subscriber calls PM "a predator"
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March 2014
I, Ezra, Again
Ezra Levant has sent out an email soliciting donations to fund yet another defamation case he’s caught up in. I recieved a secret first draft of this email by a…
More Defections to Crimea
A gaggle of Ukrainian military leaders based in the Crimea have defected. The oath of allegiance to the people of Crimea has been taken by Pyotr Zima, head of the…
Karzai Says – We Were Only In It For Ourselves
I don’t like Hamid Karzai but he might have a point when he complains that our Afghan War wasn’t waged on behalf of Afghanistan but for our interests, not his…
In Defence of Hypocrisy
Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.) The ‘I’ in this passage — from section 51 of Song of Myself, by…
Aghhh. My Head Is Going to Explode!
“You just don’t invade another country on phony pretext in order to assert your interest.” That pearl of wisdom yesterday from the secretary of state of the United States of…
Thoughts on the Ukraine Situation
There has been an enormous amount of speculation around the Ukraine situation on social media today. First, let me be abundantly clear: I do not support the Russian actions towards…
European Commission wades into war over Galway salmon farm
Anti-salmon farming activist Don Staniford presents to the European Commission last week (courtesy of Don Staniford) Read this Feb. 26 story from the Irish Examiner on the battle over open…
Rob Ford dancing and having fun
He is somewhere in Hollywood. 🙂
Irregularly signed default judgment not set aside as of right
The Toronto Dominion Bank v. Nawab, 2014 ONCA 152 deals with a default judgment signed before the time to defend had elapsed. In such circumstances many would assume the judgment…
How to Explain Climate Change to Your Cranky Old Uncle
Relax, the hard work has been done for you. The U.S. National Academy of Sciences, in conjunction with Britain’s equally prestigious Royal Society, have reduced the science to a handy…
Climate Change is a Civilization Wrecker
There’s been a lot of discussion in recent months about how climate change now setting in might trigger another mass extinction of life on Earth and it might. Long before…
Perspective
This puts things into perspective. Happy World Wildlife Day! * And for some more perspective, here’s George Carlin on “saving the planet”.
Range Wars, 21st Century-Style
It’s a classic theme of the ‘wild west’ – range wars where free-range cattle ranchers clashed with farmers whose fenced fields blocked their way. Today it’s a struggle between farmers…
Municipal Voters: Partisan Intervention is Coming Your Way
Did you mistakenly think that the Manning Centre’s attempt to bend the 2013 Calgary municipal election to more “conservative” was an aberration? You would be quite wrong. The author of…
The Economics Of Social Democracy – Social Europe Journal
The Economics Of Social Democracy – Social Europe Journal. By John Weeks In a recent article in the Social Europe Journal Shayn McCallum develops in some detail his interpretation of…
Trudeau ruling out working with NDP shows he just doesn’t get it
In the rest of the developed world, coalition governments are the norm. But instead of standing up for Canadian democracy, Justin Trudeau has decided to back Harper’s anti-democratic position that…
Some Days A Reactionary Just Can’t Catch A Break
At least if you are a reactionary in the Harper vein. First came the bad polling news showing increasing numbers of Canadians growing increasingly suspicious and weary of the relentless…
Italy’s industrial meltdown – what is to be done?
Originally posted on Revolting Europe: As the crisis at white goods maker Electrolux heralds another round of plant closures in the Eurozone’s second largest manufacturing nation, economist Guido Viale argues…