Your Daily Digital Digest for Wednesday, June 4, 2014
Your news links for today: A People’s Plea: Don’t Spy on Us – The Tyee 10 reasons you should be creeped out by Stephen Harper’s anti-privacy agenda – Press Progress…
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Ontario Debate Aftermath #voteon
My initial (biased) impressions of the debate are: – As someone who is supporting the OLP, I’d have much preferred if Wynne had started stronger, but the first two topics…
Harper: A Decade In And He Still Doesn’t Get It
Stephen Harper has been in power for the high side of a decade. That’s a long time. Most Prime Ministers by this point in their careers have figured out that…
And They Wonder Why More Women Don’t Get Into Politics
In an interview in 2012, Hilary Clinton was asked “Which designers do you prefer?” Her response was brilliant: “Would you ever ask a man that question?” Says journalist Mary Elizabeth…
Massachusetts Strike Down Mandatory Life Sentences for Juveniles by Jason E Lau
Last year, the Massachusetts supreme judicial court made a landmark decision that will not only affect the lives of countless young offenders in their state, but also the lives of…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Neil Irwin highlights the reality that top-heavy economic growth has done nothing to reduce poverty in the U.S. over the past 40 years:…
nutty norquist north
Timmy is an idiot.. This week he introduced Grover Norquist’s “Taxpayer Protection Pledge,” into Canada. The one page pledge that we all should know by now, blackmailed republicans in congress…
June 3: Walking on the edge of insanity….
(I had not intended to write today, but there have been developments….) ..You would never guess it from a reading of the Irving press, but we are close to war…
New Ontario Poll: What Did I Say?
Before the Tuesday telecast, voters who tuned in said they preferred the Liberals over the Conservatives by 37 per cent to 31 per cent. Afterward, the Liberals were at 40…
Paid Plasma Debate: The Atlantic describes how desperate donors deceive plasma screeners
When it comes to collection of plasma for pharmaceutical purposes, Canada appears to be on the verge of becoming more like the United States. That may not be a good…
Remembering Tiananmen Square
25 years ago in Tiananmen Square there was a protest against the Chinese government. The protest was dealt with lethal force by the government – killing many people. Since then,…
140 Law – Leading Legal Headlines for Wednesday, June 4, 2014
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Wednesday, June 4, 2014: Why lawyers will love iOS 8 Jury dress code violated defendants’ rights, lawyers say…
The big debate: Hudak gets gold, Horwath silver – and #WynneHands gets beat
The big question I can’t answer is this one: in an election campaign where no one has been paying attention, was anyone paying attention last night? If so, get ready…
Wynne won what?
Was that a flashback to Canada’s federal leaders John Turner and Brian Mulroney in 1984? These people need new material. The Ontario leaders’ television event last night was like a…
The Worst Choice
Kathleen Wynne gave a less than stellar performance in last night’s Ontario Leaders Debate. But, this morning, even John Ivison at the National Post writes: The PC leader spent the…
European Activists Protest First Major Tar Sands Shipment from Canada, Threaten Escalating Actions
Protests erupted in Spain last week at the site of the first major delivery of tar sands crude imported from Canada via the United States. According to a news report…
European Activists Protest First Major Tar Sands Shipment from Canada, Threaten Escalating Actions
Protests erupted in Spain last week at the site of the first major delivery of tar sands crude imported from Canada via the United States. According to a news report…
The Ghastly Ontario Debate and the Fatal Weakness of Progressives
It only took about fifteen minutes of watching the Ontario leader's debate before I started to wish that I was watching something else. Anything else.Or just lounging around with my…
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Liberal Gouge App
Calculate how much the Wynne Government will end up gouging you every year thanks to: More delisted services Increased user fees Improved eco fees More regressive taxes Regressive pension plan:…