The Moncton Shooting and Social Media
During the events of June 4-6 in Moncton I was one of those heavily involved in social media, following and posting to several Facebook threads, Twitter feeds, and the official…
June 2014
Open Letter To Council Requesting Affirmation Of Toronto As A Sanctuary City
Dear Deputy Mayor, Councillors and city staff. My name is Joe Fantauzzi. I’m a resident of Toronto and first generation Canadian. My family immigrated to this country from Italy in…
Open Letter To Council Requesting Affirmation Of Toronto As A Sanctuary City
Dear Deputy Mayor, Councillors and city staff. My name is Joe Fantauzzi. I’m a resident of Toronto and first generation Canadian. My family immigrated to this country from Italy in…
New US Economic Study Shows Carbon Tax Refunded to Households Would Create Jobs
As recent reports on the impact of climate change underscore the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, a new study finds that a tax on carbon can reduce those emissions…
140 Law – Leading Legal Headlines for Tuesday June 10, 2014
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Tuesday, June 10, 2014: Rocco Galati plans legal challenge to Citizenship Act changes Angelina Codina facing legal troubles…
The collapse of Ontario New Democrats.
This opera of an election will be over very soon. It has seemed like a long and tedious affair. The pundits have made their final forecasts. The newspapers have surprised…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Richard Shillington studies the Cons’ income-splitting scheme for the Broadbent Institute, and finds that it’s even more biased toward the wealthy than…
Doctors Say Healthy People Come From Good Urban Design
A new report written by a handful of doctors titled Improving Health Care by Design concludes that in order to have a healthy populace we need cities designed for health.…
A Preview Of Coming Attractions
As the Ontario election campaign runs down, Kathleen Wynne says that a vote for the NDP is a vote for Tim Hudak. And Andrea Horwath says that Ontarians don’t have…
Public image, political slippage
I’m not sure why I titled this post in that way. I like rhymes and alliterations, as you know. Anyway. Yesterday’s post on GOTV caught the attention of no less…
Three things Ontario’s main political parties didn’t have, and the effect of same
1. Ontario New Democrats: Money. Effect: They disappeared in Week One, and only reappeared at the debate, at which point it was too late. 2. Ontario Liberals: A coherent message.…
why i’m voting liberal on june 12 and why i feel so crappy about it
Need it even be said? The rightward shift of the NDP is a colossal disappointment for me. I’m part of the NDP’s natural constituency. The NDP has historically been a…
Cowichan Lake is now below full storage-Cowichan Lake and River Stewardship Society
Cowichan Lake and River Stewardship Society <center>This report was carried on Facebook and reproduced here for Cowichan Conversation readers</center> The lake is now below full storage, which is the top…
Will The Government’s New Prostitution Legislation Make Strip Clubs Illegal?
Past President of the Ontario Bar Association James Morton thinks so:Most people do see a difference between going to a strip club and hiring a prostitute. Strip clubs, while perhaps…
“Out-sourcing” social programs and policy #nlpoli
The incredible story from Ireland about the remains of 800 babies and children found in a discarded septic tank caused your humble e-scribbler to think a bit about local history.…
Stephen Harper, Tim Hudak, and the Con Climate Change Deniers
When I first saw this picture of Stephen Harper and Tony Abbott having breakfast together, I thought something had gone wrong with their "special relationship."I mean they both looked so…
Alberta PC leadership race is policy-lite in early days
TweetThe race is still in its early stages, but Albertans hoping the Progressive Conservatives leadership contest would spark a great policy debate about the future of our province are so…
Newsprint ‘wraps’ – not good for fish and, as it turns out, not much good for newspapers either
The Edmonton Journal’s “wrap” Friday, showing the hidden front page inside. Below: The wrap’s uninspiring front page. Now that nobody sells fried fish wrapped in yesterday’s edition of the local…
Tweet of the day
June 7, 2014—the Greatest Comment in the History of the Internet has been posted. pic.twitter.com/rxkzXdq01c — Cosmo%20Catalano (@cosmocatalano) June 7, 2014 Here is a larger version of the comment, in…
Canadian ‘progressive’ parties abandoning Canadians – they just don’t give a shit.
THIS WILL BE ALL CAPS BECAUSE I AM YELLING AT YOU, PROGRESSIVE DORKS. Watching the Kings-Rangers game, all I’m seeing are Conservative ads. HAVE YOU NOT LEARNED ANYTHING, YOU FUCKING…