The Home of the Habs: For Whites Only?
This blogpost was published in the HuffPost under the title: This Canadian Stood Up to Racism Before Rosa ParksThe Hobby Lobby case rules that Corporations can impose their restrictive values…
July 2014
The Home of the Habs: For Whites Only?
The Hobby Lobby case rules that Corporations can impose their restrictive values on others. What if the corporation is racist? As a Verdun resident, Fred Christie follows the Habs, as…
Ontario’s 2014 Municipal Elections – Who Can Vote Where? #onpoli
On October 27, all of Ontario's municipalities will hold elections to elect (or re-elect) mayors, councillors, and school trustees. In order to vote in the election, you must meet the…
Ontario’s 2014 Municipal Elections – Who Can Vote Where? #onpoli
On October 27, all of Ontario’s municipalities will hold elections to elect (or re-elect) mayors, councillors, and school trustees. In order to vote in the election, you must meet the…
Ontario’s 2014 Municipal Elections – Who Can Vote Where? #onpoli
On October 27, all of Ontario's municipalities will hold elections to elect (or re-elect) mayors, councillors, and school trustees. In order to vote in the election, you must meet the…
Ontario’s 2014 Municipal Elections – Who Can Vote Where? #onpoli
On October 27, all of Ontario’s municipalities will hold elections to elect (or re-elect) mayors, councillors, and school trustees. In order to vote in the election, you must meet the…
When is a Community Plan NOT a Community Plan?
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Paul Kamill is a relative newcomer to the Cowichan Valley. He bought a small acreage bordering on the proposed Balme family gravel pit on the Cowichan Bay-Cobble…
Back from Holiday, Tired but Pleased with It All
The photo was taken at one of the high points of our three weeks in Paris and Portugal–the countryside around Conínbriga in the center of that country. I’ll have more…
Stephen Harper vulnerable after all: Goar
Canadians don’t like what Stephen Harper is doing to Canada, have finally found chinks in his armour and are now “chipping away at the prime minister’s policies on everything from…
Vice: The Canadian Government is Playing Hide and Seek with the TPP
First they tried to dodge us by moving TPP negotiations from Vancouver to Ottawa, now they’re avoiding questions about their Internet censorship plan. Good thing we’re taking matters into our…
The Politics of Prostitution
I have spent the last few days watching the live tweets of the committee hearings into Bill C-36, the Conservative’s new prostitution legislation (thank you, Kady O’Malley). This was not…
Making Them Listen – Bringing +19,000 Voices to the Secretive TPP Negotiations
For over two years now, we’ve been pushing back against the secretive and extreme Trans-Pacific Partnership, specifically the provisions around intellectual property, which would censor the Internet and require your…
The TPP Internet Censorship Circus is in town and it’s more secretive than ever
The bureaucrats and industry lobbyists negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership have gone to great lengths to keep their plans a secret before, but this takes the cake. After scheduling the next…
TPP trade talks too secret, NDP MP Don Davies says
NDP MP Don Davies has told a downtown Ottawa protest that the Harper Conservatives’ ongoing negotiations on the TPP are unnecessarily secretive. The post TPP trade talks too secret, NDP…
Peace Country Mayor Calls on B.C. to Refer Site C Dam Decision to Independent Regulator
With a provincial decision on the Site C dam expected in September, the District of Hudson’s Hope is calling on B.C. Premier Christy Clark to refer the Site C dam…
July 10: What a jackass! it has
I’m beginning this on the evening of July 9 so that tomorrow I can write, “I told you so”. The federal justice committee is interviewing social workers, people in the…
40 journalists protest plans to nuke CBC documentary team
40 journalists write to CBC President and CEO Hubert Lacroix and Executive Vice-President Heather Conway to protest plans to nuke the CBC documentary team. The post 40 journalists protest plans…
140 Law – Leading Legal Headlines for Thursday, July 10, 2014
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Thursday, July 10, 2014: New Winnipeg bus bylaw bans singing Cut use of ‘gotcha card’ by requiring pretrial…
Review: A Stranger to Myself: The Inhumanity of War: Russia, 1941-1944
A Stranger to Myself: The Inhumanity of War: Russia, 1941-1944 by Willy Peter Reese My rating: 5 of 5 stars The powerful memoir of a German infantry soldier during WW2,…
Making Friends With Solitude
I used to hate being alone. I remember as a teenager, aching for the phone to ring, rifling through my closet for something ‘cool’ to wear, wandering the halls of…