Summer Reading Sale!
If you prefer your books in dead tree format, do I have a deal for you. Three of my books are available for 25% off! Get all the deets here.…
May 2014
I believe in better parks and recreation for Vancouver.
It is strange to think that the ideas I was fighting for in 1999 are still the issues 15 years later. Below is from the original BetterParks site that I…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Friday, May 23, 2014
Your news links for today: Ottawa’s spying on Canadians has no place in free society – Toronto Star Ottawa Is Spying On Us Without Warrants And It’s Time To Get…
Labourers’ union smart approach: being proactive
This is interesting. When the CBC and the Star were coming after LIUNA (mainly for the offence of Working While Italian), the union took a proactive approach – and contacted…
Political Eh-conomy Radio: Linda McQuaig on Hudak’s imaginary jobs and Canadian inequality
Today, I’m happy to present another extended interview and my guest is Linda McQuaig. Linda is a National Newspaper Award-winning journalist and commentator who has worked for the Globe and…
Hey, Public Safety and RCMP: do I scare you?
Apparently: “Bureaucrats, for example, bumped around a copy of a head-scratching open letter posted by Sun columnist Warren Kinsella on his blog. In it, he calls on Anonymous to get…
The Ontario NDP has a platform?
And here we thought the New Democrats were going to wing it through this election without a platform. They fooled us again! Here we are with three weeks more to…
John Tory: in the pocket of the handgun lobby
Yesterday’s post about John Tory’s non-position on several important issues got heads shaking about Mr. Dithers again. But it was his abject refusal to take a position on handguns that…
Prognosis: Grim
Kevin Farmer, the lead letter-writer in today’s Star, captures nicely, I think, the irrational nature of humanity that does not bode well for our collective future: Re: Antarctic melt greatest…
Ontario Prediction Update – averages
The roughly calculated poll averaged for Teddy’s Ontario prediction are as follows: I’m putting this out today – without much commentary as there is not much to say – and…
They Eat Their Own
It couldn’t happen to a nicer group of people. Tim Harper reports that the battle for the Conservative nomination in Oakville North-Burlington has become toxic: Amidst a flurry of charges…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Friday, May 23, 2014
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Friday, May 23, 2014: Group of NJ rabbis indicted for using stun guns and beatings to force men…
Secure retirement is right
He knows all about how to secure an early political retirement. And she will be doing likewise, if she spends another day campaigning with him. .
In today’s Sun: Trudeau touches the third rail
Now that he has reopened the abortion the debate – and, rest assured, Justin Trudeau has done so – what next? Who wins, who loses? Trudeau himself is both a…
Revealed: Former Energy in Depth Spokesman John Krohn Now at U.S. EIA Promoting Fracking
For those familiar with U.S. Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) work, objectivity and commitment to fact based on statistics come to mind. Yet as Mark Twain once put it, “There are…
The Orenda — finally figured it out
Orenda - Probably most famously in early TV times, the Orenda was known as the Splenda in Orenda, when Mayhem Melvin Johnstone met Jonoby Jefferson in a 10-round title fight.…
The Orenda — finally figured it out
Orenda – Probably most famously in early TV times, the Orenda was known as the Splenda in Orenda, when Mayhem Melvin Johnstone met Jonoby Jefferson in a 10-round title fight.…
The Orenda — finally figured it out
Orenda - Probably most famously in early TV times, the Orenda was known as the Splenda in Orenda, when Mayhem Melvin Johnstone met Jonoby Jefferson in a 10-round title fight.…
The Orenda — finally figured it out
Orenda – Probably most famously in recent times, the Orenda was known as the Splenda in Orenda, when Mayhem Melvin Johnstone met Jonoby Jefferson in a 10-round title fight. Jeffersonappeared…