Traffic Lights
Originally posted on e-MORFES: Photographer Lucas Zimmermann on a foggy night near Weimar, Germany, set up his camera, and took incredible long exposure traffic light photos. You can see more…
April 2014
Traffic Lights
Originally posted on eMORFES: Photographer Lucas Zimmermann on a foggy night near Weimar, Germany, set up his camera, and took incredible long exposure traffic light photos. You can see more…
Saturday night blues blogging
This is Otis Rush performing at Montreux in 1986 with Gambler’s Blues. Freddie King wants to know if you can feel it. This is Goin’ Down. And a long, slow…
Women Are Heroes
Courtesy of JR, this classic film shows the artist’s Women Are Heroes project in the Morro da Providencia flavela in Rio de Janiero, Brazil in 2008. JR’s intention in Women…
Women Are Heroes
Courtesy of JR, this classic film shows the artist’s Women Are Heroes project in the Morro da Providencia flavela in Rio de Janiero, Brazil in 2008. JR’s intention in Women…
Standard for interpretation
R v Moo, 2014 ONCJ 127 holds an interpreter need not be perfect to meet the requisite constitutional competence. "What is required ultimately is that the information held by the…
Anti-Wind Forces Vandalizing Property?
The OPP seems to think so. And its worth noting this statement from Ontario Wind Resistance:
In Sunday’s Sun: when democracy is just a word
A year ago this month, Justin Trudeau was a candidate for the Liberal Party leadership. He gave a big speech to delegates at what was called the “Liberal leadership showcase.”…
Fur trade and tar sands
Here is Joseph Boyden talking with the Globe and Mail last fall about his novel Orenda: “You look at this novel and you think immigration, who you allow in and…
Vladimir Putin basically told Stephen Harper to go and take a hike
Stephen Harper thinks he is a world leader. He has been prominent in criticizing Russia over Ukraine and promised Ukraine some military help. Putin primarily told him to go and…
April 19: Sh! Baby’s sleeping…
What could be the biggest crisis in world history has taken a turn for the worse in the last couple of days. But not in the Irving press. In the…
CVRD Recycling and Waste Manager Bob McDonald Has Been Dismissed
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Longtime CVRD Recycling Manager Bob McDonald has been dismissed as the restructuring shakeup at the CVRD continues. Restructuring seems to be well underway. The CVRD Chair and…
Endorsement of Court of Appeal of limited precedential value
R. v. Singh, 2014 ONCA 293: While all decisions of this court are binding, care must be taken to avoid reading unwarranted jurisprudential principles into a decision of the court…
Air travel woes
Air Canada apologizes for luggage toss caught on video – Toronto – CBC News: In spite of Air Canada saying that tossing bags down the stairs isn’t their policy, its…
Ontario’s Electricity Is Officially Coal Free
Last Tuesday the government of Ontario announced the Thunder Bay Generating Station – Ontario’s last coal-fired power plant – had burnt off its last supply of coal. The electricity of…
Guest Post: The Mound Of Sound On Oligarchy
I am pleased to present to you this second guest post by the Mound of Sound, a.k.a. The Disaffected Lib: When the “Greatest Democracy on Earth” closes up shop and…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Paul Krugman explains how one’s political values figure to affect one’s view of evidence as to the success or failure of a policy:…
Review: Crises of Imagination, Crises of Power
It’s not a new question: How can we talk about the working of the social world such that we don’t reinforce the dominant rupturing of what is actually
A Brief Programming Note
Since spring finally seems to be arriving in my place on the planet, it seems like a propitious time to take a day or two off from this blog and…