Really, Dr. McHugh?
For reasons somewhat beyond my comprehension, the Wall Street Journal has decided to give Dr. Paul McHugh another podium from which to spew his nonsense. "Transgender Surgery Isn't The Solution"…
June 2014
The day after: health care issues still smoldering
There’s got to be a morning after. Tim Hudak has announced he is stepping down and the Kathleen Wynne Liberals now have a majority parliament. So what happens now? There…
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Walla Walla and Wallah-wallah: The Way That Languages Change
Attention particularly to my friends in South-Eastern Washington state: wallah-wallah has entered French in Montreal! I’m the third generation of my family to be born in the small city of…
Challenging U.S. Coal to China from Texada Island, BC
Friday, June 13, 2014 Should BC be used to trans-ship American coal to China? Who gets to decide? And what does that mean for our environment? These issues and others…
Marshall Islanders take on the nuclear powers
This is a David and Goliath story like no other. The Republic of the Marshall Islands, a country with a population of only 68,000 souls, is taking the nuclear powers…
Supreme Court’s historic decision on warrantless disclosures is huge win for Canadian privacy, means govt’s Bill C-13 is unconstitutional in current form
share_pop_300_4.png Court ruling vindicates Protect our Privacy Coalition and tens of thousands of Canadians who had been campaigning against warrantless disclosure of their private information. June 13, 2014 – In…
A Post-Election Reflection
I don’t want to comment directly about last night’s Ontario election, given that it has been incisively and very competently observed by others already. However, I want to address a…
Hey MacDougall, Try Google!
OPINION Commenters snipe from sidelines, but the kids in short pants are all right It’s time to name and shame anonymous commenters who insult people working to improve Canada By…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Friday, June 13, 2014
Your news links for today: Supreme Court Delivers Huge Victory for Internet Privacy & Blows Away Gov’t Plans for Reform – Michael Geist R v Spencer: Supreme Court rules internet…
First Steps For New Wynne Majority
@SueAnnLevy @SueAnnLevy Ontario should name a new tax after you. Call it “The Sue-Ann Levy levy”. #onpoli— Bigcitylib (@Bigcitylib2) June 13, 2014
Over $48 Trillion Energy Investment Needed by 2035, IEA Report Concludes
It will cost $48 trillion to keep up with rising energy demand worldwide over the next two decades, a newly released report by the International Energy Agency concludes. That’s a…
Ontario Election: Polling Fails Again!
After spectacular failures during the Alberta and BC elections, polling, as an industry struggling for credibility, lost yesterday’s election in Ontario along with the neoliberal, anti-social Hudak. 308.com reviewed the…
Work – Life Balance: Is It Attainable?
by Ann Barrow Attainable: Not really: Distressing, frustrating, discouraging? Stephen Mabey’s article brought those adjectives to my mind Mabey’s rightly deems lawyers to have real choice in the matter of…
Notice of Motion: The ERDC Plods Slowly Forward
The Electronic Rights Defence Committee has been fighting since 1996 to get recompense for free lance writers whose work was stolen and published electronically by The Gazette, Montreal’s English language…
Review: New Materialisms
It will come as no surprise to anyone who regularly reads this blog that I read some pretty dense nonfiction for fun. Oh, I’m no “theoryhead” — those people who…
Cat with a very hot tail
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