Fukushima residents unsure of return to no-go zone
By Yuri Kageyama, The Associated Press TOMIOKA, Japan – Whenever Kazuhiro Onuki goes home, to his real home that is, the 66-year-old former librarian dons protective gear from head to…
April 2014
MPAC Turbines And Property Values Study Update
I almost wasn’t going to write about Wind Concerns Ontario’s “refutation” of MPAC’s study re the effects of wind turbines on property values. However, the most interesting bit of it…
A Call For Mathematicians to Protest the NSA
The NSA is the world’s largest employer of mathematicians and now there is a movement from some mathematicians calling for a protest against the spying agency. We don’t know what…
The Rise of the Far Right as the Euro-Crisis Hits France
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2014 budget: If your hospital is not already on the rebuild list, it won’t be
When Charles Sousa unwraps his Ontario budget on Thursday there likely won’t be any new money for expanding hospital infrastructure. Coming out of the Harris era, the McGuinty/Wynne government faced…
Ontario’s ‘overly ambitious’ gaming.
The recent audit report on Ontario Lottery and Gaming (OLG) proves once again that you should not audit something you do not understand. Gaming is based on promises of riches.…
Victim or menace: Notes on the TFWP and political agency
The louder the debate about temporary foreign workers grows, the more it seems temporary foreign workers, especially those from the global South performing low-wage labour, are left in the din…
140 Law – Legal Headlinse for Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Tuesday, April 29, 2014: STOP USING INTERNET EXPLORER IMMEDIATELY, US GOVT WARNS Groia, LSUC steadfast as appeal, cross-appeal…
A Failed Puppet Master?
In a withering assessment of Stephen Harper, that is the conclusion Andrew Coyne seems to draw in his National Post column: We are so heavily invested, we media types, in…
The Big Dog
It really is time to bury the notion that Stephen Harper is a brilliant strategist. Andrew Coyne writes: We are so heavily invested, we media types, in the notion of…
The Kleptocracy of Vladimir Putin
More than one critic has noted that Russia doesn’t manufacture anything the world wants (a knock that now can be laid against Canada, especially since the dramatic fall of Blackberry…
Getting the Other Eye Done Today…
The kitchen is just about clean, after my new eagle (left) eye uncovered all the grime. Today is the day the right eye (formerly my better eye) gets done. Back…
Interesting little Rabble poll
Got an e-mail about this as a Rabble member. Rabble, for those who don’t know, is Canada’s largest left-wing political website. I am a member there. I was also a…
Emperor Harper and the Fatal Blindness of the Media
In more than eight years of blogging against the atrocities of the Con regime, nothing has bothered me more than the way the MSM has heaped slavish praise on its…
Decisive Leadership in Action #nlpoli
How hard can it be for someone to figure out when they want to start a job? Seriously. A job you want, mind you, not one you have been forced…
Jason Kenney and the Issue That Could Kill the Harper Cons
Oh boy. Try as I might I can't escape the feeling that things are out of control in Harperland.If it isn't the snow in Saskatchewan, it's the runaway blimp in…
Veep is Fracking Good
Season 3, Episode 4 of HBO's Veep tackles the issue of fracking, features a blogger, a smartwatch and a really complicated toilet. Very good, and very funny. Disclaimer: people here…
Four-year, 6.75% AUPE tentative agreement ends threat of open war between civil service union and Hancock Government
If not cordiale, at least entente. Alberta Premier Dave Hancock and AUPE President Guy Smith celebrate their tentative contract agreement yesterday. Actual Alberta public figures may not appear exactly as…