In 2015, let’s make Canada Harper-proof!
Most Canadians appalled by the Harper Government don’t realize that this is just the beginning. Since 1935, the only times the conservative vote was united was during the reigns of…
2014
Opposition to a Pipeline, any Pipeline? Say it Ain’t So…
Pipeline push-back: What’s behind the rising opposition to Canada’s big oil pipelines Climate change debate behind animosity toward Northern Gateway and Keystone XL By Janet Davison, CBC News Posted: Apr…
Evaporating Borders explores asylum-seekers in Cyprus
“… it’s a place I call home, although I blend in only as a familiar stranger.” Evaporating Borders, written and directed by Iva Radivojevic, is a five-act exploration of asylum-seekers…
Regrets and Triumphs in Mothering a Complex Son: A Video Conversation
Recently, I had the privilege of sitting down for a chat with my friend and colleague in disability activism, Jennifer Johannesen. Jennifer is a blogger and the author of “No…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Joshua Holland writes that for all the social and cultural factors contribution to U.S. sickness and death, inequality ranks at the top…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Your news links for today: Net Neutrality Update – Howard Forums Politicians Slam FCC Plan to Crush Net Neutrality – Free Press If John Kerry Thinks the Internet Is a…
Civil Forfeiture
Ontario (Attorney General) v. $10,000.00 in Canadian Currency (In Rem), 2014 ONSC 944: “Unlawful activity” is defined in the Act as an act or omission that is an offence under…
Fukushima residents unsure of return to no-go zone
By Yuri Kageyama, The Associated Press TOMIOKA, Japan – Whenever Kazuhiro Onuki goes home, to his real home that is, the 66-year-old former librarian dons protective gear from head to…
MPAC Turbines And Property Values Study Update
I almost wasn’t going to write about Wind Concerns Ontario’s “refutation” of MPAC’s study re the effects of wind turbines on property values. However, the most interesting bit of it…
A Call For Mathematicians to Protest the NSA
The NSA is the world’s largest employer of mathematicians and now there is a movement from some mathematicians calling for a protest against the spying agency. We don’t know what…
The Rise of the Far Right as the Euro-Crisis Hits France
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2014 budget: If your hospital is not already on the rebuild list, it won’t be
When Charles Sousa unwraps his Ontario budget on Thursday there likely won’t be any new money for expanding hospital infrastructure. Coming out of the Harris era, the McGuinty/Wynne government faced…
Ontario’s ‘overly ambitious’ gaming.
The recent audit report on Ontario Lottery and Gaming (OLG) proves once again that you should not audit something you do not understand. Gaming is based on promises of riches.…
Victim or menace: Notes on the TFWP and political agency
The louder the debate about temporary foreign workers grows, the more it seems temporary foreign workers, especially those from the global South performing low-wage labour, are left in the din…
140 Law – Legal Headlinse for Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Tuesday, April 29, 2014: STOP USING INTERNET EXPLORER IMMEDIATELY, US GOVT WARNS Groia, LSUC steadfast as appeal, cross-appeal…
A Failed Puppet Master?
In a withering assessment of Stephen Harper, that is the conclusion Andrew Coyne seems to draw in his National Post column: We are so heavily invested, we media types, in…
The Big Dog
It really is time to bury the notion that Stephen Harper is a brilliant strategist. Andrew Coyne writes: We are so heavily invested, we media types, in the notion of…
The Kleptocracy of Vladimir Putin
More than one critic has noted that Russia doesn’t manufacture anything the world wants (a knock that now can be laid against Canada, especially since the dramatic fall of Blackberry…
Getting the Other Eye Done Today…
The kitchen is just about clean, after my new eagle (left) eye uncovered all the grime. Today is the day the right eye (formerly my better eye) gets done. Back…