Toronto Star: The government creeped on this First Nations advocate
Should the government be able to monitor and collect your facebook posts and those of your friends and family? Should they use this information to monitor which events you attend?…
June 2014
Joe Cressy, The NDP, And Keystone XL
NDP candidate Joe Cressy is yakking it up at the #trinspa debate: Cressy: stop subsidizing oil patch, and start green energy; stop the Keystone XL pipeline, etc. #trinspa— Pundits’ Guide…
Dear Ontario Liberals
You should probably read this. Sincerely, Warren Ontario Liberal Party War Room Chair, 2003, 2007 and 2011
The politics of “ableism” and hard-working babies
If there was a party game that could be applied to the recent provincial election, it would have involved some kind of participant action every time a politician uttered the…
The states of state affairs
Comparing remuneration of senior public officials in Washington State to BC counterparts can leave one astounded. The most obvious examples are at the publicly owned investment management agencies and the…
Politicizing Expenses
And this is what happens when you politicize expenses. One MP goes to Fort McMurray for legitimate parliamentary business – and attends party functions while he is there. He expenses…
Ecologically Unique ‘Ring of Fire’ Needs More Study Before Development, Groups Say
Two Ontario-based environmental organizations are calling on the recently reelected Ontario Liberal government to assess the potential cumulative social and environmental impacts of mining projects in northern Ontario’s ‘Ring of…
Intelligent Design: money and PR instead of science
The book Only a Theory: Evolution and the Battle for American’s Soul by Kenneth R. Miller mentions this organization – Discovery Institute – which has a 4 million a year…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Monday, June 23, 2014
Your news links for today: Cyberbullying, the Supreme Court and the future of Bill C-13 – Macleans ‘No judgment, no discretion’: Police records that ruin innocent lives – Toronto Star…
charles barsotti, 1933-2014
Two obituary posts in a row, and I didn’t even mention Tony Gwynn. My favourite cartoonist, Charles Barsotti, has died from cancer at the age of 80. My favourite Barsotti…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Thomas Frank discusses the corporate takeover of U.S. politics – and how even nominally left-oriented parties are willing to go along with the…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Monday, June 23, 2014
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Monday, June 23, 2014: Judge reserves decision in expat voting case Canada’suclear watchdog proposes precautionary pill distribution near…
The Long Reach Of Partisan Politics
h/t Montreal Simon In Ontario, we noticed the long federal reach of divisive partisan politics during our recent election. Joe Oliver, our alleged finance minister, interposed his views, lamenting the…
Time for an Ocean Cleanup
We recent looked at Illinois banning microbeads, which will cut back on plastic pollution in large bodies of water. But what about the plastics that are already in the oceans?…
Blog Challenge Week One: My Connection to Disability
This summer, I’m participating in a blog hop. The first topic of discussion is ‘My Connection to Disability’. It was 1972 and I was seventeen. I remember it was hot…
Harper Hair is perfect, his Cabinet not so good.
It seems to be a growing trend in the Conservative Cabinet. Without the human understanding of the late Jim Flaherty, Harper’s hooligans have been running loose. Just one example is…
The Harper Government’s Eight Years of Standing Up For Canada
I came across the Conservative Party of Canada’s 2006 election platform: Standing Up For Canada. Stephen Harper is the first and only leader of this Party that was formed in…