Forecast: Very Cloudy Indeed
Mike de Sousa is a former Post Media reporter now operating his own website continuing his investigative work into energy and the environment. He is well-worth paying attention to. His…
2014
Why the PCs think Mike Harris is a big-government union-lover
Many used to contrast the hard right policies of the former Mike Harris Progressive Conservative government with the milder PC policies of Bill Davis and the Big Blue Machine. But…
ITOW: what folks are saying about Flip-Floppin’ John Tory’s “plan”
Matt Elliott, Metro: “Since day one of his campaign, John Tory has been crystal clear that the major focus of his campaign is the Yonge Street Relief Line subway —…
Oilsands in the EU: European Union Receives its First Bitumen Shipment Today
Today an oil tanker carrying between 500,000 and 600,000 barrels of western Canadian oilsands (also called tarsands) bitumen arrives in Bilbao, a port city in northern Spanish. It is the…
When is the truth a ‘channel-changer’?
Why would anyone get excited about the Premier of Ontario wanting to keep her job? She likes her job and she has done it better than many of us expected.…
Stephen Harper and the Catastrophic Decline of the Con Regime
Well I knew he was desperate. I knew he would do anything to try to improve his sagging polls.But after pawing the Chief Justice and trying to rape the constitution,…
Flip-floppin’ John Tory
…he went and dropped his Number One Priority! Fun little silent video prepared by some T.O. students who (clearly) aren’t big fans of John. .
Sentence appeals
R. v. McLean, 2014 PECA 10: Section 687(1) of the Criminal Code directs that on an appeal against sentence, an appellant court is to consider the fitness of the sentence.…
Grimes on Frank, Tom, and the Kami project #nlpoli
Roger Grimes’ is through his heart surgery and nice vacation and that has left him with a new vigour. He called VOCM’s BackTalk on Tuesday to talk about the Kami…
Introducing the Centennial College Paralegal Students
For everyone who has followed and supported Law is Cool over the years, there is a small change in content that you will see over the next few months. Facilitating…
Good questions
Not a nincompoop blogger, RossK at The Gazetteer mentioned difficulties faced by Bob Mackin, the province’s preeminent investigative journalist, when Bob digs, and pays, for information the government does not…
Jason Kenney’s Never-Ending Fast Food Nightmare
Oh goody. Pass the ketchup and call an ambulance. It looks like Jason Kenney's Little Shop of Con Horrors and Foreign Workers just got even MORE entertaining.Because now not only…
Today is the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers
Fifty-eight years ago, one of Canada’s most honourable contributions to the international community was born. The first armed UN peacekeeping mission, an emergency force formed to deal with the Suez…
Ric McIver Progressive Conservative leadership campaign lurches to life as Hancock Government sends mixed signals
Tory leadership candidate Ric McIver, shown on his extremely uninformative campaign website. Below: Education Minister Jeff Johnson and newly appointed Jobs, Skills, Etc. Minister Kyle Fawcett. Ho-hum. After days of…
Andrew Coyne assures us "Hudak’s bogus plan is no reason not to vote for him"
The media reaction to Hudak’s 8 fold screwup in his Million 75,000 Jobs Plan has been almost as ridiculous as the mistake in the plan itself. I already wrote about…
Try sincerity, for a change
The Harper Cons must be wondering, what do we have to do to satisfy these guys?After revealing the inadequate jury-rigged process which lead up to the Nadon appointment, now the…
Ontario Election 2014
I decided a few months ago that when an election was called, I would for the first time, sign up and support my local incumbent NDP member in an attempt…
Ontario Election 2014
I decided a few months ago that when an election was called, I would for the first time, sign up and support my local incumbent NDP member in an attempt…