Self Injurious Behavior, a common occurrence in some with severe autism, can appear in a flash and transform a happy, fun filled moment into pain and suffering as it does…
In Guatemala, indigenous Mayan communities’ participation in community consulta, or consultation, helps to engage the government, and push back against Canadian and multinational mining companies accused of human rights abuses.…
Again, foreign news will be at the end of this blog -separated by ################# Now, go to google – “The Atlantic, The alarming research behind New York’s fracking ban.” This…
“The truth of history,” Napoleon wrote in his memoirs while exiled on St. Helena, “is a fable agreed upon.” Agreed upon mostly by the victors, one should add. The losers…
The New Year Cometh! Here is what I’m divining, as I sit in various states of undress, contemplating my semi-nude universe: 1. Justin Trudeau will become Prime Minister of Canada.…
P.S. v. Ontario, 2014 ONCA 900: For the following reasons, I conclude that the provisions of the MHA dealing with involuntary committal violate s. 7 of the Charter by allowing…
Fortunately, the NSA likely has a backup copy of this attempt to cover up CRA efforts to target charities. @saskboy @Belgraves @TorontoStar More to the point, If sent on taxpayer-funded,…
You know that weird sensation when you experience something and you immediately get the feeling you’ve seen that very same thing before? No, I’m not talking about déjà vu. I’m…
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Lynn Parramore interviews Joseph Stiglitz about the spread of inequality, along with the need for a strengthened labour movement to reverse the…
This December 23rd, I am wistful about time passing. Tomorrow is my Mom’s 93rd birthday. It seems like yesterday we celebrated her 90th – time is passing so quickly now…
Michael Harris discusses union busting tactics, forcing members out of office, refusing compensation for veterans, and other scandals of the Harper years – so far.
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter: Call for clear parenthood laws after lesbian couple says they were hounded by sperm donor’s family What’s going on…
The Harperites like to present themselves as advocates for law and order. But, Errol Mendes writes in the Globe and Mail, they do their best to undermine the rule of…
While it may not qualify as a smoking gun, a series of text-message deletions at Canada Revenue Agency looks decidedly suspicious. Given what many see as the Agency’s Harper-directed war…
Former Liberal Premier David Peterson has been labelled as a left-wing social democrat by the Toronto Star. It is hardly the first time the Star has been wrong but even…
Stephen Harper is being taken to task a lot lately for spending $600 million of taxpayers’ hard-earned dollars on ‘Government of Canada’ advertising that does little more than promote his…
