Glen McGregor, ace reporter
Or, um, not. Robo-calls? Robo-nothing. Consider the source, as they say. .
April 2014
South Island Aggregates Shuts Down Pit. Is This The End Or Just A Ploy?
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger SIA has apparently shut down their operations and may be out of business. At first look this is encouraging news to residents justifiably worried about SIA’s government…
April 24:Some good reporting
Though section A is its usual bleak self, it does have one story that looks like an example of good reporting and good writing. “Assess shale health effects: experts” The…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Thursday, April 24, 2014
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Thursday, April 24, 2014: My post today @SlawTips: OntarioCourtDates.ca Launched Justice Sonia Sotomayor Blasts John Roberts Court in…
Pivot
This week serves as a pivot point for politics around the world. OntarioThe NDP has put out their demands, they want an increase in corporate taxes. Should the government survive…
Interview with Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov on current i[video]: ‘If we’re attacked we will certainly respond’
In this RT interview, Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov makes a number of key observations about American involvement in Ukraine, the limits of American geo-political power, the Kiev regime, legitimate…
Sammy Yatim’s Accused Killer Back On The Job
While the presumption of innocence is fundamental to our justice system, common sense and public sensibilities are always unspoken elements of the equation. This is clearly seen, for example, in…
On qualitative research: Anecdotes are spatialized data
On Qualitative research, lessons on IE & Political opportunities: Anecdotes are not just for discourse analysis- They can also reveal structures of power that position people differently and relationally. Anecdotes
Rogers discovers customers.
Some Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) hearings remind us of acts from Shakespeare’s MacBeth. You can count on the weird sisters—commonly referred to as witches—to be there. You know…
Pikkety on Capital in the 21st Century (Tom Palley)
I have just finished Piketty’s magnum opus which is clearly one of the most important economic books of our time. I am still trying to digest the theoretical argument. Below…
Severe Autism Reality: Desperate BC Mother of a Severely Autistic Son Ends His Life and Her Own
Photo and caption from The Province, April 23, 2014 Photo and caption from the Province, April 23, 2014 As reported by Sam Cooper in The Province April 23, 2014 a…
Automatism and Mental Disorder
R. v. S.H., 2014 ONCA 303: (1) The Nature of Automatism Automatism is a state of impaired consciousness in which a person, though capable of action, has no voluntary control…
Plan 9 from Columbus Drive #nlpoli
Some enterprising political science graduate student will be able to write a brilliant doctoral dissertation a few years from now on the parallel ideas in provincial politics and popular situation…
Jason Kenney’s Other Big Foreigner Problem
Well surprise, surprise. I see that Jason Kenney has stopped bragging about how he plans to fix the foreign workers problem, after the tragic story of that waitress in Weyburn,…
Help Conservative Senators Stop Harper’s Banana Republic
Emperor Stephen Harper and his double double. Interesting times indeed. 8 Conservative senators have decided that Emperor Stephen Harper has no clothes. The Emperor has whipped and intimidated his backbench,…
Thanks to Tom Lukaszuk’s memo, Albertans know it wasn’t just Alison Redford with the entitlement problem
Members of the Alberta government’s Public Affairs Bureau spin a good yarn in response to freedom of information requests filed ages ago by Alberta journalists, opposition politicians and other busybodies.…
Todd Bentley: I need $10,000 NOW!
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission Well, perhaps it wasn’t stated as bluntly as in my headline. But Todd Bentley put on the pressure a couple hours…