He Can Always Go Back to Israel
It looks as though Stephen Harper won’t find much love when he travels to Mexico for the upcoming North American leaders’ summit. American officials have already bluntly warned Harper not…
2014
The Idiot Cull
I nominate the late James Coot, a Middleboro Kentucky preacher, for a 2014 Darwin Award. Snake-handling star of ‘Snake Salvation’ reality show dies from snake bite (via Raw Story )…
Kickstarter hacked
I signed up for KickStarter and didn’t even end up using it. Because I was lazy/human, I used a password I’d used on some other websites when creating my account…
How The Conservative Party Tried To Prevent The Red Maple Leaf From Being Canada’s Flag – Feb 1965
“From the Tory benches the prime minister (Pearson) was greeted by jeers and hoots and shouts of derision. ‘Vote with pride’, “All right,” exclaimed Mr. Pearson, “they have turned it…
Feb. 16: Empathy- the ability to sense and to understand the feelings of others.
Well, anybody who has read my blogs this week will know that the idea of talking about empathy came from an admirable opinion column in the TandT by Alec Bruce.…
Vladimir Putin very happy for Sochi Olympic 2014
Putin is jumping up and down with joy. 😉
Man Responsible for Olympic Ring Mishap Found Dead in Sochi
It was a pure rumour. Mishap: Rumour:
On Flag Waving
The twin-cities, Kitchener and Waterloo, have both decided to put a rainbow flag inside city hall for the duration of the Olympics rather than fly one outside the building. From…
What That Ocean Warming Business is Really All About
Here’s a helpful (i.e. simple) video that illustrates El Nino and La Nina events and the role they play in climate change. Recent studies predict the El Nino Southern Oscillation…
No, This Isn’t Anything Except Depressing
Canned news. In the era of concentrated media ownership and gutted newsrooms, a lot of what we’re getting as information is actually being fed to news organizations via press releases,…
Canadian Company Called U.S. Oil Sands Will Soon Start Extracting Utah’s Tar Sands
Think only Canadians need to worry about tar sands extraction? Think again. In October, U.S. Oil Sands, Inc. joined Kentucky-based Arrakis Oil Recovery as the second company to receive a…
Quebec Premier Marois bobbles bigotry.
Quebec Premier Pauline Marois appears to want to have a provincial election based on the bigotry of her charter of values. She sees it as creating conditions for separatism from…
It’s Time. Now, Put Up or Shut Up!
Once in a hundred year floods. Once in five hundred year drought. Once a century this or that. Now that we’re beginning to routinely calibrate severe weather events on dynastic…
To Be Young, Gifted, And Gay – Part Two
While I wholeheartedly agree that no one has the right to pry into a person’s sexual orientation (except in cases of arrant hypocrisy), I still feel such admiration for and…
Solicitor Client privilege applies during production orders
R. v. A.B., 2014 NLCA 8: Consequently, I conclude that it is the nature of the communications and the solicitor-client relationship that give rise to the need to protect a…
Who Knew? Trollism Is a Disease of the Mind.
Just go to the comments section of the National Post, Sun News, FOX News or even The G&M, and you’ll find them gathered there, trolls spewing out utterly predictable hatred…
From Occupy to Climate Justice: Merging Economic Justice and Climate Activism
This article was originally published in the February 24th issue of The Nation and is republished with permission. by Wen Stephenson It’s an odd thing, really. in certain precincts of…
Not Seeing The Other Half
For some time now, Robert Reich writes, the United States has been devolving into a We and Them Society — as in, Why should we pay for them? He sites…