Grimes on Frank, Tom, and the Kami project #nlpoli
Roger Grimes’ is through his heart surgery and nice vacation and that has left him with a new vigour. He called VOCM’s BackTalk on Tuesday to talk about the Kami…
May 2014
Introducing the Centennial College Paralegal Students
For everyone who has followed and supported Law is Cool over the years, there is a small change in content that you will see over the next few months. Facilitating…
Good questions
Not a nincompoop blogger, RossK at The Gazetteer mentioned difficulties faced by Bob Mackin, the province’s preeminent investigative journalist, when Bob digs, and pays, for information the government does not…
Jason Kenney’s Never-Ending Fast Food Nightmare
Oh goody. Pass the ketchup and call an ambulance. It looks like Jason Kenney's Little Shop of Con Horrors and Foreign Workers just got even MORE entertaining.Because now not only…
Today is the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers
Fifty-eight years ago, one of Canada’s most honourable contributions to the international community was born. The first armed UN peacekeeping mission, an emergency force formed to deal with the Suez…
Ric McIver Progressive Conservative leadership campaign lurches to life as Hancock Government sends mixed signals
Tory leadership candidate Ric McIver, shown on his extremely uninformative campaign website. Below: Education Minister Jeff Johnson and newly appointed Jobs, Skills, Etc. Minister Kyle Fawcett. Ho-hum. After days of…
Andrew Coyne assures us "Hudak’s bogus plan is no reason not to vote for him"
The media reaction to Hudak’s 8 fold screwup in his Million 75,000 Jobs Plan has been almost as ridiculous as the mistake in the plan itself. I already wrote about…
Try sincerity, for a change
The Harper Cons must be wondering, what do we have to do to satisfy these guys?After revealing the inadequate jury-rigged process which lead up to the Nadon appointment, now the…
Ontario Election 2014
I decided a few months ago that when an election was called, I would for the first time, sign up and support my local incumbent NDP member in an attempt…
Ontario Election 2014
I decided a few months ago that when an election was called, I would for the first time, sign up and support my local incumbent NDP member in an attempt…
Ontario Election 2014
I decided a few months ago that when an election was called, I would for the first time, sign up and support my local incumbent NDP member in an attempt…
Oligarch Pyotr "Chocolate King" Poroshenko wins big in Ukraine’s low turn-out election: change to disbelieve in
The presidential election in Ukraine was held on the same date as elections to the European parliament that resulted in an unprecedented showing by anti-immigration Euro-skeptic parties. The Ukraine election…
Ontario Conservatives, Mathematically Irresponsible
It’s been four days since the mathematical failure of the Conservative’s Million Jobs Plan was relieved, yet strangely it isn’t the top story of the election. There have been two…
Common Sense health care would save lives, help the economy
If the definition of good governance includes the sound management of public monies and resources, then Canada has very bad governance. The manufactured health care crisis is a case in…
AN OPEN LETTER: TO THE NEXT SAD AND INSANE INDIVIDUAL WHO PURCHASES AUTOMATIC WEAPONS IN THE US
Kill Joe the Plumber, because he believes it is your right. Thank you
BC Teachers’ Wage & Class size proposals: Myths & Realities
I wrote the original version of this post in January 2012, during our last contract negotiations. Since then, teachers have had two more years of zero increases (2012, 2013). Here…
Media stenography: The CBC can’t bring itself to call Hudak’s plan what it is
If you haven’t heard, Hudak’s so called Million Jobs plan is more like a 75,000 jobs plan, based on an obvious mistake that meant most of his numbers were multiplied…
Canada-EU trade deal will hurt Canada’s auto industry: study
by: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives | Press Release | May 28, 2014 OTTAWA – The proposed Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) will only exacerbate the Canadian auto industry’s…
You could win amazing prizes
Cards Against Humanity, Raspberry Pi Linux mini computers, Reddit plush dolls, oh my! These are just a sample of the awesome prizes you could win just by sharing our crowdsourced…
The Language of Newspapers
So I wrote a letter to a national newspaper noting that a group was pro-choice. I used gender neutral language. The letter was printed but the group was called, after…