tpp_threat.jpg Demands grow to release full text of Trans-Pacific Partnership to enable public debate about proposals that would make the Internet more expensive, censored, and policed Thursday December 11, 2014…
The line between law enforcement and the military is, sadly, blurring. Today’s cops are being equipped with combat weapons and gear, even armoured military vehicles. They’re being trained to operate…
Your news links for today: Police don’t need warrants to search cellphones in arrests, top court rules – Globe and Mail 10 Ways They Spy On Your Mobile – Plulz…
We’ve been getting soaked lately. A series of torrential rainstorms often called the “Pineapple Express” has been bringing flooding to Vancouver Island and parts of the Lower Mainland. Hardest hit…
…but this is frigging outrageous.
Dr. Katherine Hayhoe, climate scientist, communicator, educator, and CCL science advisor, spoke at Citizens’ Climate Lobby Canada’s Carbon Fee Prosperity conference last month. Dr Hayhoe is an atmospheric scientist and…
It's been a long quiet bit of time here. Been working out. Feeling a lot better, but that amongst other things takes up some time. All the testing after the…
Monty Python was onto something with their sailing financial pirates, I think. “Over 260,000 tons of plastic waste in oceans, study shows“ Why buying dollar store crap will come back…
New regulations purported to make Bakken crude safer for transport instead allow business as usual for the oil and rail industries moving explosive Bakken crude oil in unsafe DOT-111 rail…
Here, on how the Cons’ secretive giveaway of what’s left of the Canadian Wheat Board can only be explained by their desire to eliminate collective marketing in favour of total…
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Wray Herbert examines Lukasz Walasek and Gordon Brown’s work on the psychological links between inequality, status-seeking and reduced well-being. And Linda McQuaig…
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter: UN expert calls for prosecution of CIA officials over torture report Detroit Is Out of Bankruptcy, but Not Out…
http://thisfragiletent.com/ The Big Lie of the last forty-five years has been Trickle Down Economics. The Great Depression exposed it as a Big Lie. But people have short memories and —…
Infrastructure Ontario CEO Bert Clark says the $8 billion premium the government spent to build public infrastructure under the public-private partnership model doesn’t tell the whole story. He’s right, but…
Well, we arrived back in the early hours of yesterday, having enjoyed a relaxing week in Cuba. Unfortunately, there was no English-speaking Canadian television available, so I feel unprepared to…
You know it is a slow news day when the Toronto Star gives front page space to beating on Ontario’s awful Beer Store. It is one subject Babel-on-the-Bay and the…
Of the Law Societies of Upper Canada and Nunavut
I hate this time of the year, when it gets dark before you get home. And of course nowhere is it darker than in Harperland, where the beast rules, and…
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