The awful Sam Sotiropoulos
A good friend of mine commented on this Global TV interview with idiot/homophobic Toronto school trustee Sam Sotiropoulos and said it all: “Kudos to the Global TV reporter here who…
September 2014
Olivia Chow loses when the race is about Rob Ford
On paper, the Toronto Mayoral race should be a cakewalk for the NDP's Olivia Chow. Consider, it is down to two conservatives who will split votes on the right and…
Olivia Chow loses when the race is about Rob Ford
On paper, the Toronto Mayoral race should be a cakewalk for the NDP’s Olivia Chow. Consider, it is down to two conservatives who will split votes on the right and…
Olivia Chow loses when the race is about Rob Ford
On paper, the Toronto Mayoral race should be a cakewalk for the NDP's Olivia Chow. Consider, it is down to two conservatives who will split votes on the right and…
Olivia Chow loses when the race is about Rob Ford
On paper, the Toronto Mayoral race should be a cakewalk for the NDP’s Olivia Chow. Consider, it is down to two conservatives who will split votes on the right and…
An appeal from a refusal to grant an interlocutory injunction must be taken promptly
Polar Supplies v Cape Dorset 2013 NUCA 11: There appears to be some confusion here about the proper role of an interlocutory injunction. Such an injunction is designed to hold…
In Tuesday’s Sun: what’s Harper’s Daisy going to be?
Fifty years ago on Sunday, politics was changed forever. It begins quietly, with a little girl. She’s in a field somewhere, and she has long, straight hair, and big eyes.…
MH-17 Report Tomorrow
The Dutch Safety Board will release its preliminary report into the July downing of Malaysian Airways flight MH-17 over Ukraine. The report will supposedly divulge details from the flight data…
Massachusetts District Attorney Makes History: Recognizes Necessity of Defending Climate
This morning, a District Attorney in Massachusetts made history as he recognized the “necessity defense” of climate-related civil disobedience, and reduced the charges for two activists charged in their Lobster…
Tech on the Side: Amazon vs Apple
While Apple is a wildly profitable money printing machine that hoards its cash and returns billions to shareholders, Amazon makes no official profit. As Benedict Evans points out, this is…
Tech on the Side: Amazon vs Apple
While Apple is a wildly profitable money printing machine that hoards its cash and returns billions to shareholders, Amazon makes no official profit. As Benedict Evans points out, this is…
Tech on the Side: Amazon vs Apple
While Apple is a wildly profitable money printing machine that hoards its cash and returns billions to shareholders, Amazon makes no official profit. As Benedict Evans points out, this is…
Tech on the Side: Amazon vs Apple
While Apple is a wildly profitable money printing machine that hoards its cash and returns billions to shareholders, Amazon makes no official profit. As Benedict Evans points out, this is…
Autism and the Liberal Party 2014 Election Platform: Nothing on Autism – No Adult Autism Care Centre
The Liberal platform is published and there are no commitments to address autism issues, no mention of autism disorders. In particular there is no mention of any intention to change…
How Many Crude Oil Scientists Will Testify At Congressional Science Committee Hearing on Bakken Crude? Zero
Bakken petroleum: the substance of energy independence. If you think that sounds like the latest branding from the oil industry’s public relations efforts, you might be right. However, it isn’t…
You Know It’s Not Working for Us. It’s Been Over For a Long Time.
Naomi Klein’s new book, This Changes Everything, will be out next week. The theme of the book is change or be changed. Klein argues that the only way mankind will…
Do you remember dial up? We do.
Urgent action needed: Big Telecom giants are about to force many of your favourite websites into an Internet slow lane,1 making them buffer sporadically, and return errors. This is the…
Blaise Salmon: Elected CVRD Directors Pawns of Management
Mill Bay’s Blaise Salmon has been monitoring the financial affairs of the CVRD with a special focus on runaway salaries for top management personnel. Guest Post by Blaise Salmon It’s…
On The Training of Marine Mammals (a.k.a. MPs)
As I mentioned in a blog post the other day, I am currently reading Tragedy in the Commons, a book that examines the gross deficits to be found in Canadian…