Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Joseph Stiglitz offers his suggestions (PDF) for a tax system which would encourage both growth and equality: Tax reform…offers a path toward both…
2014
‘Holding Brad Wall Accountable’ – Sask New Democrats Meet In Annual Convention
Saskatchewan’s New Democrats are holding their annual convention this weekend in the friendly city of Moose Jaw. Party Leader Cam Broten has signaled that New Democrats are ready and able…
Nasty, Just Plain Nasty
It’s not like it comes as a big surprise that the Harper Government is nasty. But the extent of their vileness continues expand. First, the Harper Government seems to have…
Leaked emails reveal old plan to plow ALR, disdain for First Nations
Former Agriculture Minister Pat Pimm is drawing fire for racist comments about First Nations Read this May 28 Globe and Mail story by Justine Hunter and Mark Hume on a…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Friday, May 30, 2014
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Friday, May 30, 2014: My post this week @SlawTips: The Law Office Backyard Retreat You can’t base a…
Texas family awarded $3 million for fracking damages
Lisa and Bob Parr (Photo: Wise County Messenger / Joe Duty) Read this April 23 story from the LA Times on the groundbreaking award of nearly $3 million in damages…
Chow supporters don’t think, they just attack.
Yes, Babel-on-the-Bay promised not to talk about the Toronto mayoralty until September. So, we lied. When your hobby is politics, you do pick up some political traits. What we did…
Inclusion Done Right: Conor at Leo Hayes High School Resource Centre
Pictures above and below: Inclusion done right at Leo Hayes High School Resource Centre Pictures courtesy of Steve at the LHHS Resource Centre Inclusion done wrong is inclusion as advocated…
Lonely At The Top?
If Stephen Harper isn’t ‘feelin’ the love,’ it is a situation of his own making. Two brief excerpts from Tim Harper’s column in today’s Star, entitled Stephen Harper’s slide into…
Ipsos’ numbers + H&K’s ridiculous seat projection widget =
This. I don’t believe it, myself, but it’s fun to play with I guess. My take, in easy-to-digest bullets: No one is paying attention at all. The people who are…
Federal Science Cuts Stall Climate, Mercury Research
As cuts to federal science budgets continue, former government scientists and academics who’ve lost their funding say the cuts have upended their careers, compromised knowledge about Canada’s environment and undercut…
Burning Bridges
I have been struggling a lot with how to deal with people who I once respected greatly but now, as they have developed new projects and I have developed my
The Shorter MaRS "Scandal"
In 2002, Ontario’s Progressive Conservative government, eager to throw off the notion that it hated science and evidence, ordered the building of some big buildings with words like “science” and…
Driving magazine: John Tory is “woefully inept”
…and has “barely established a beachhead.” Ouch. Being dissed in an auto magazine. John Tory has arrived. “Of course, we can probably take this talk of an imminent invasion with…
The Madness Of King Stephen
Tim Harper writes that the the parliamentary press gallery has always known that the prime minister has a hair trigger temper: When Stephen Harper returned from political exile to lead…
Chariot of the Gords
As we all know, Canada is replete with Gords. Per capita, the “Great White North,” as it is known to hosers, carpetbaggers and avuncular entomographers everywhere, has the highest density…
Playing with the Ferryman #nlpoli
The ferry service between Newfoundland and Cape Breton is economically important to the province as a whole, but it’s especially sensitive for Port aux Basques. Marine Atlantic announced a change…
The Dangerous Isolation of the Desperate Stephen Harper
As you know the thing that bothers me the most in the hideous darkness of Con Canada, is the way the MSM have failed to properly portray the real Stephen…
The Day Julian Fantino Ran From the Wife of a Veteran
He has betrayed Canadian veterans, he has disrespected them, he has nickel and dimed them to death.There is never enough money to help the wounded, the elderly, and their families,…