Govern Yourselves Accordingly
Just a quick hit as I sit waiting for my oil change today, Nation. In a little over 80 hours, we will start to get by-election results in Edmonton-Whitemud, Calgary-West,…
October 2014
Another Glimmer of Hope, This Time From the European Union.
Whilst I, by looking on praise of them, see riot and dishonour stain the brow of my own country. Sincere apologies to William Shakespeare and Kings Henry IV and V.…
An Unlikely War Pits the Pentagon Against the GOP
Over the past decade, America’s military has raised the climate change threat level until today it stands at a screaming, howlin’ red. The Pentagon’s position inflicts a certain degree of…
Will the Opposition Capitulate to Harper’s Police State?
Steve Harper is taking a page, maybe a chapter, out of Dick Cheney’s neocon playbook to exploit a couple of relatively minor incidents to plunge Canada into a deeper form…
Fennell cleared by integrity commissioner in ruling
Talk about eleventh-hour campaign drama. Wow.
Your Daily Digital Digest for Friday, October 24, 2014
Your news links for today: About That Copyright Exception for Political Advertising. . . Never Mind – Michael Geist NBCU CEO ‘Surprised’ HBO, CBS Giving Users What They Want –…
The CBC Respects Dignity Better than Corporate Media
Corporate media, being owned by corporations, needs to maximize shareholder wealth. That means news is a loss leader. News is about generating sensationalism, excitement or hysteria. News is about generating…
A Modern Take on Gorgias
Plato’s dialogue Gorgias is mostly about the difference between content and form. Or rather it’s about how Socrates saw the difference between philosophy – content and truth – and rhetoric…
They’re Doing it in Germany Part 1: How to Green B.C. Energy
They’re doing it in Germany: 140 regions of the country have set a goal to become 100 per cent renewable energy regions, covering 30 per cent of Germany’s land and…
No. Just No.
As I had expected, the first steps in the Harper Government’s overreaching reaction to this week’s events in Ottawa are starting to surface. Introducing Harper’s Thought Police: Sources suggest the…
New Tory Hate Speech Laws? Richard Warman On Government’s New Anti-Terror Initiatives
So I read this this morning: OTTAWA — The Conservatives are understood to be considering new legislation that would make it an offence to condone terrorist acts online. There is…
Seven little cats in the grass
It’s been a week of tired. Sometimes I despair that so much is on the edge. I have no work held back, no posts queued up, no drawings hovering. Then…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Paul Krugman writes that the ultra-wealthy’s contempt for anybody short of their own class is becoming more and more explicit around the globe…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Friday, October 24, 2014
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Friday, October 24, 2014: Employee awarded $65,000 for loss of pension | Canadian Employment Law Today ‘Highly troubling’:…
A year can be forever in politics.
It will feel like a year long federal election campaign between now and October 2015. Wars have not lasted as long. Yet, despite all the strategies at play, the key…
And Thus It Begins
One of the misgivings I expressed in yesterday’s post seems to be a little closer to reality today. The National Post headline reads: Conservatives mulling legislation making it illegal to…
Tainted blood survivors come out in Hamilton, London and Windsor
Tainted has been on the road for three days now, encountering enthusiastic, emotional and well-informed audiences in Hamilton, London and Windsor. Next week there will be six more performances in…
Students want consequences for trustee after tweet about transgendered people
The newspaper reports on this were awesome to read. But the TV story below from Global really does it justice: “A dozen Toronto high school students are striking back at…
On opportunism
Shorter Harper Cons: In our language, the word for “crisis” is the same as the word for “opportunity to trash civil rights”.
News reporter fired after asking AnTerson Cooper for ‘inappropriate’ Anttawa selfie
Satire inspired by this headline: http://bc.ctvnews.ca/sun-news-reporter-fired-after-asking-anderson-cooper-for-inappropriate-ottawa-selfie-1.2068133