Toronto Needs Progressive Property Taxation
In November, the TTC board decided to raise fares for 2014 by approximately $60/year for people who buy metropasses every month. Many have already noted that this amount is the…
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Toronto Needs Progressive Property Taxation
In November, the TTC board decided to raise fares for 2014 by approximately $60/year for people who buy metropasses every month. Many have already noted that this amount is the…
Toronto Needs Progressive Property Taxation
In November, the TTC board decided to raise fares for 2014 by approximately $60/year for people who buy metropasses every month. Many have already noted that this amount is the…
Salathial Turgid, Hanging Judge
The O’Reilly Boys finally caught up with Old Judge Turgid at the Annual Pecos River Ride and Chili Jamboree. Salathial had hung their older brother Seamus “The Tinkle” O’Reilly just…
Application of Informer Privilege
R. v. Cook, 2014 ONCA 170: I turn first to the issue of informer privilege. It was submitted that the law is not clear on this point. The leading cases…
Toronto Needs Progressive Property Taxation
In November, the TTC board decided to raise fares for 2014 by approximately $60/year for people who buy metropasses every month. Many have already noted that this amount is the…
Is Stephen Harper Trying to Protect Himself From the Robocall Scandal?
For some reason I've always assumed that the Cons were rushing their foul voter suppression bill through Parliament, so they could try to steal the next election like they tried…
How do they work, exactly? #nlpoli
As laughable as it is for the Premier’s Office to insist former Premier Kathy Dunderdale received only 46 e-mails in a single week and sent none, there are some other…
Brad Butt and the Day of Shame
It could only happen in Harperland, a place where decency goes to die, and the Big Lie rules. Where a Con MP can lie outrageously about personally witnessing election fraud.And…
Solar Power Had A Huge Year In 2013
A new report out from GTM Research and the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) shows that solar power came an incredibly long way toward asserting itself as a key part…
A Cold War of Washington’s Own Making
It’s refreshing to see that, this time, we’re not all falling for the official line, the Washington line that lays the blame for the Ukrainian fiasco at Moscow’s feet. Washington…
Council of Canadians Seek to Protect Shawnigan Watershed From Toxic Dumps
The Cowichan Valley Regional District (CVRD) has been appearing before the BC Environmental Board in Victoria looking for relief from the entity that might provide their best chance of overturning…
Airplane scandal takes off as Tory support, fundraising effort nose dives
TweetYesterday’s Speech from the Throne was old news as scandal erupted today over Premier Alison Redford’s alleged inappropriate use of government-owned airplanes. After facing criticism over her $45,000 trip to…
Flights of fancy: 11 days to the Ides of March and the knives are already out for premier
Alison Redford’s party awaits the Alberta Premier’s arrival before boarding their Government of Alberta aircraft. Actual Alberta big shots may not appear exactly as illustrated. Below: Pompeia, the wife of…
Online Alert! Convicted Rapist Using Social Media Dating Sites
You may be wondering why a blog dedicated to politics and philosophy is posting an online alert and I would like to set your mind at ease.Recently, it was brought…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Napping cats.
Salt of The Earth
Lets drink to the hard working people Lets think of the lowly of birth Spare a thought for the rag taggy people Lets drink to the salt of the earth…
Online Alert! Convicted Rapist Using Social Media Dating Sites
You may be wondering why a blog dedicated to politics and philosophy is posting an online alert and I would like to set your mind at ease. Recently, it was…
Ezra Levant and the Fine Art of Astroturfing….
…. allegedly. We've written posts about Ezra Levant sporadically throughout the history of this blog, most recently concerning his racist stereotyping of the Roma people for which he eventually apologized…