Nov. 11: Avoiding the news….
Monday’s edition, page A1, has a classic of model of how to tell the news without really telling anything, and putting readers to peaceful slumber at the same time. “Derailment…
November 2014
Imagine if Trudeau had hid in the cupboard
Filed under: Cartoons (Single Panel), Making fun of Conservatives, Making fun of Harper
Where Ezra Levant wants to put your kids in the line of fire
Darling of the Canadian right wing, Ezra Levant, has sunk to an even new low. In Ontario a school board has responded to the legitimate concerns for the safety of…
Where Ezra Levant wants to put your kids in the line of fire
Darling of the Canadian right wing, Ezra Levant, has sunk to an even new low. In Ontario a school board has responded to the legitimate concerns for the safety of…
Kinder Morgan Oversells Benefits of Trans Mountain Pipeline, Underplays Costs, Says New Report
Kinder Morgan has significantly overstated the benefits of its controversial Trans Mountain pipeline expansion proposal while vastly understating risks associated with increasing the flow of oil to Metro Vancouver. That’s…
Where Ezra Levant wants to put your kids in the line of fire
Darling of the Canadian right wing, Ezra Levant, has sunk to an even new low. In Ontario a school board has responded to the legitimate concerns for the safety of…
War
In a weird, frightening way, we believe in violent death. We regard it as a policy option, as much to do with self-preservation on a national scale as punishment for…
War
In a weird, frightening way, we believe in violent death. We regard it as a policy option, as much to do with self-preservation on a national scale as punishment for…
War
In a weird, frightening way, we believe in violent death. We regard it as a policy option, as much to do with self-preservation on a national scale as punishment for…
I support turning Remembrance Day into a national statutory holiday
Canada’s Parliament has a private member’s bill going through Parliament right now that has government support into turning Remembrance Day into a national statutory holiday. It has a good chance…
War
In a weird, frightening way, we believe in violent death. We regard it as a policy option, as much to do with self-preservation on a national scale as punishment for…
Peabody Energy Goes On Offense With New PR Campaign Designed To Sell Same Old Dirty Coal
Despite what you may have heard about the death of the coal industry, Peabody Energy is ramping up mining activities and going on the offensive, pushing “clean coal” on the…
Lest We Forget
Each November we pause on Remembrance Day to stand silently in tribute to those who have served, those who still do, and those lost. Without words we say thank you,…
Canada’s Union of Federal Scientists Gets Political, Commits to Campaign Against Harper Government
In an absolutely unprecedented move Canada’s Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada (PIPSC) announced it will engage in political activity in the lead-up to and during the next…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Tuesday, November 11, 2014
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Tuesday, November 11, 2014: South Korea captain in ferry disaster, crew members sentenced to lengthy terms Sick Kids…
My First CBSC Complaint!
From the submission I filed with them this morning: In this segment, Sun News Network personality Ezra Levant implies that the Greater Essex County District School Board has sent around…
It’s Just Another Front in the New Cold War
Let the war begin, the propaganda war. One of the great battlefields of Cold War is the war of propaganda. We’ve been waging a propaganda war against Russia for some…
Keeping Remembrance Day in My Own Way….
Gap’s ‘Remembrance Day deal’ not appropriate, Toronto veteran says ‘The point is not to exploit and profit from this day,’ says Cpl. Chuck Krangle CBC News Posted: Nov 10, 2014…
In Remembrance
From Chris Hedges’ “War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning.” “When Ernie Pyle, the American war correspondent in World War II, was killed on the Pacific island of Ie…