Solidarity with Bobette!
At the last May Day protest, police repression was brutal and a lot of protesters were hurt. Bobette was specifically targeted by the SPVM because of her political activities; they…
June 2014
140 Law – Leading Legal Headlines for Wednesday, June 18, 2014
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Wednesday, June 18, 2014: Georgia Inmate Is Put to Death in First U.S. Execution Since Botched Procedure Canada…
He Can’t Let Go
Lawrence Martin writes that, if logic prevailed, Stephen Harper would be heading for the exit — particularly in the wake of Ontario’s recent election: You don’t have to be a…
Mental Health: No easy answers, but there are still answers
There are no easy answers, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t answers. We’ve been meeting in downtown Toronto to try and tackle the issues behind the injuries front line professional…
ruby dee, 1922-2014
Ruby Dee was a towering figure in the American theatre. She was a great actor, a poet, playwright, and screenwriter, and a steadfast voice for equality. Along with the actor…
Cowichan Tribes Chief Chip Seymour Supports A Grass Roots Approach
Rob Douglas Cowichan Conversations Contributor When William (Chip) Seymour was elected Chief of Cowichan Tribes last year, he took a grassroots approach, stressing the need to improve the relationship between…
Could Northern Gateway be Stephen Harper’s Final Act?
No sooner had I finished my last post, about Stephen Harper's decision to approve the Northern Gateway pipeline, when I was struck by a sudden happy thought.Could that be his…
Ontario voters reject economists.
Watching economist Don Drummond on Tom Clark’s Global Television show the other day, you could understand why Ontario does not elect economists. Conservative Leader Timmy Hudak is an economist (?)…
Dear Mr Alward, Cardy, Coon, Gallant: New Brunswick Still Needs A Permanent Residential Care and Treatment Centre For Severely Autistic Adults
Photo of my son Conor from a few years ago submitted to the Aquinian for an article by then Aquinian journalism student Karissa Donkin. No progress in residential care and…
Dennis Gruending On Canadian Doctors For Refugee Care
It’s another good piece. This little bit of it lets you see some of the logic at work on the government side: Several members of the audience identified themselves as…
Wednesday Quickies #nlpoli
As your humble e-scribbler spent time on Tuesday finishing off a presentation to the ATIPPA inquiry next week (11 AM, 25 June), here are a couple of quickies you might…
First Nations vow to fight Enbridge’s Northern Gateway project
“We are prepared to go to unprecedented lengths to conserve and protect our territories and waters from heavy oil” – First Nations Leadership Council by: First Nations Leadership Council |…
The Cowboy King and the Northern Gateway Pipeline
Well, surprise, surprise, he couldn't contain himself. At the end of his political career, paranoid and increasingly desperate, his grand pipe dream of going down in history as Alberta's greatest…
The coming partition of Iraq
The War Nerd explains what is happening in Iraq — basically, the country is being violently partitioned into Sunni, Shiite and Kurd countries and there’s just about nothing anyone can…
Can capitalists save capitalism?
Prominent Harvard economist Lawrence Katz illustrates the American economy with an amusing analogy. He depicts it as an apartment block in which the penthouses have increased in size, the middle…
Red in Central Canada, blue in Ottawa an immutable rule that favours Harper’s Tories? Don’t bet on it!
Is Justin Trudeau finished because Kathleen Wynne just won in Ontario, like the mainstream media’s pundits are telling you? Don’t be too sure! (Say, as one Twitter commenter asked, who…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Outbound cats.
Harper Government Rejects Supreme Court Privacy Decision: Claims Ruling Has No Effect on Privacy Reform
by: by: MICHAEL GEIST | June 17, 2014 Having had the benefit of a few days to consider the implications of the Supreme Court of Canada decision in Spencer, the…
Field notes on the Hupacasath legal challenge to the Canada-China FIPA: WCEL summer law student volunteer reports from the Federal Court of Appeal
Wednesday, June 18, 2014 On the morning of June 10, 2014, as my first investigative assignment as a law student volunteer working with West Coast Environmental Law, I was sent…
Northern Gateway: Welcome To Our Next National Unity Crisis
Depending how hard The Feds and Alberta push, it could get very ugly. “The West” fragmented; B.C. NEP-ed, West-Coat independence movements galore. The ROC forced to choose between beautiful B.C.…