It’s Our New Normal – It’s Yours and Mine. Now Let’s Deal With It.
Every morning Google Alerts delivers to my inbox a digest of the day’s stories about flooding. For several years I’ve begun my morning sorting through these and other alerts to…
2014
Stephen Harper and the Case of the Missing Job Numbers
OMG. All hail Great Merciful Leader !!! It seems that Statistics Canada has been saved from a horrible fate.After a long search, and a lot of heat, it has found…
Praising Stephen Harper
Now that I have your attention, let me assure that I am not the source of that praise. No, a site called Breaking Israel News is. Drawing heavily upon a…
Mink Farm Pollution Key Culprit in Rendering Nova Scotia Lakes Unswimmable: Report
When Debbie and Allen Hall bought waterfront property on Lake Fanning in Nova Scotia, they looked forward to a relaxing semi-retirement with their six grandchildren swimming and playing in the…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Friday, August 15, 2014
Your news links for today: The Docket – Episode 6: Bail, Police Record Checks and the Presumption of Innocence – Michael Spratt Think Comcast’s service sucks now? Just wait until…
Cowichan Valley Election Activity Is Already Underway
Mayor Jon Lefebure This fall could actually bring excitement and change to our local government elections. There is a mayoralty race going on in North Cowichan. Uncompromising tax miser Councillor…
Summer is still here somewhere
I think it’s really important to remind myself that despite the 13 degree weather that we’re still in full summer. And that this little aberration is not going to continue.…
Direct action disrupts Jewish-Canadian complicity in settler colonialism
On August 7th, twenty Jews living in Montreal gathered in the lobby of the Federation CJA (Combined Jewish Appeal) building to denounce the ongoing massacre and siege on Gaza as…
Have You Heard the Latest?
Have you heard the latest about last month’s Malaysian Airlines MH-17 shootdown over Ukraine? No? Neither have I. When the Boeing 777 plunged to the ground killing everyone aboard, Western…
Ferguson police shoot Brown in the back again
So six days after the shooting, Ferguson police suddenly decide that Michael Brown was a suspect in a robbery? The cynicism of this ploy is incredible.
That Shining Bunker on the Hill
What else is there for a genuine, honest to God-Fearin’, Warfare State? Once you’ve militarized your economy, militarized your foreign policy, militarized your society with M-16s under every other bed,…
The political expendables also serve.
While it is never wise to disagree with a judge, we hope the superior court justice who tried the case goes easy on the kid blamed for the Guelph Robocalls.…
And This Is A Good Deal Because?
Despite the best efforts of the ever-secretive Harper cabal, details about the CETA deal are finally emerging thanks to leaked portions of the text. And has been long-predicted, those details…
On the climate
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Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Glen McGregor reports on Michael Sona’s conviction as part of the Cons’ voter suppression in 2011. But both Michael den Tandt and Sujata…
Revised LFS Numbers Don’t Change the Big Picture
What a rough week it’s been over at Statistics Canada. It’s a world-renowned statistical agency — though its lustre has been tarnished in recent years by budget cuts, cancelled data…
Not Just One Bad Apple
nigelroberson.blogspot.ca So Michael Sona is guilty of election fraud, even though the crown prosecutor and the judge both agree that he did not act alone. The Harperites will continue to…
140 Law – Leading Legal Headlines for Friday, August 15, 2014
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Friday, August 15, 2014: The laws do not protect lies; Toronto police chief accepts apology from Doug Ford…
It’s Sad To Be A Part Of The Sad Sad Dying Media In The Hot Hazy Days Of Summer
…having to hack out words when you’d rather be boozing it up pool-side, being forced into sad sad stunts like this, or being forced to respond to them like they’re…
Epic Fourth
Watched “Epic” about little tree people. “Born on the Fourth of July” a 1989 Tom Cruise movie about a Vietnam vet who protests the war. A Marvel Avengers cartoon movie…