Saturday night blues blogging
Richie Sambora, Tommy Emmanuel and Laurence Juber got together for an enthusiastic unplugged performance of Baby What You Want Me To Do. This is Rod Piazza and the Mighty Flyers…
May 2014
Canadian group not dealing with major free expression issues
Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE), a non-profit organization I worked with for 14 years, is one of dozens of groups from around the world that celebrated the importance of…
in which I go to paris… with my mother!
From my Flickr page My mother said, “I want to go to Paris. I want to see Paris one more time while I’m still healthy enough and mobile enough to…
Provincial campaign? Municipal campaign? Who cares
This is what greeted Lala and me when we made our way up to the cabin for the first time this year. (I’m always the first on my lake, I’m…
No wonder Rob Ford is so screwed up. His mother is Dame Edna…
No wonder Rob Ford is so screwed up. His mother is Dame Edna and his father was Nosh from the movie Eat the Rich (see photos above). But seriously folks,…
Kyle McKee Writes in the Third Person Now
There was a little update regarding McKee's alleged involvement on the attack against Max Hynes, a one time ally now rival, that took place in the summer of 2012: White…
In Sunday’s Sun: Rob Ford ain’t beaten yet, Toronto
On a typically cold January day, the man steps into room 727 at the hotel, which is located right downtown. He has come there, a bit reluctantly, at the request…
In yesterday walks tomorrow
White background Liberal lawn signs: Never really ends well, in my experience.
Getting lots of new followers
…must be an election or something. .
Salish Sea Orca Whales Not Mating, Socializing in Polluted Soundscape
Vessel noise is already hindering endangered southern resident killer whales from communicating and finding fish and the noise bombardment will get worse if proposals for coal terminals and pipelines in…
Salish Sea Orca Whales Not Mating, Socializing in Polluted Soundscape
Vessel noise is already hindering endangered southern resident killer whales from communicating and finding fish and the noise bombardment will get worse if proposals for coal terminals and pipelines in…
Photo Gallery: May Day 2014 in Toronto The theme of the 2014…
Photo Gallery: May Day 2014 in Toronto The theme of the 2014 Toronto May Day (International Workers Day) event was Honour Communities: Fight Capitalism. The chilly evening rally started at…
The Harper Government Attempts To Politicize The Courts
In the wake of a series of failed gambits involving the Supreme Court, we now find Harper attempting to assassinate the character of the Chief Justice. “I can tell you…
May 3: The fat’s in the fire….
Two days ago, Zbignew Zbrzenski wrote an open letter which didn’t make the Irving press (perhaps it had nobody who was sure how to spell his name.). He demanded war…
Charge Protestors With Terrorism And Throw Them in Prison!
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger This compelling video landed in my inbox this morning courtesy of a Cowichan Bay activist. It claims that a Canadian corporation Trans Canada Pipeline, the force behind…
The Supreme Court Senate decision: Was it a blow to Harper?
I have noted that many commentators have somehow managed to construe the federal government’s loss on Senate reform in the Supreme Court as simply a crafty way for our clever…
Parliament Hill gets “Fracked”
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger The number of concerned Canadians opposed to hydraulic fracturing, aka ‘Fracking’ is increasing on a daily basis. The Council of Canadians are among them and carried their…
Non- Expert Opinion Evidence
Smith v. Inco, 2012 ONSC 4749: The leading case as to the admissibility of opinion evidence fromnon-expert witnesses is that of R. v. Graat, 1980 CanLII 69 (ON CA), (1980)…