Alberta: Government By Trial Balloon
“The chickens are coming home to roost, and you live in the chicken house.”– General MacArthur to President Kennedy during the Bay of Pigs crisis. Mr Prentice, like President Kennedy,…
January 2015
Alistair MacGregor Won the Cowichan-Malahat-Langford NDP Nomination Today.
Alistair MacGregor will represent the Cowichan-Malahat-Langford NDP in the Upcoming Federal Election Four hundred and fifty-five New Democrats filled up the Cowichan Secondary Gymnasium this afternoon, while another 30 or…
But Gosh It Sure Looks Purty
One of the great threats facing mankind discussed at this year’s World Economic Forum meeting in Davos is algae blooms triggered by agricultural run off into coastal waters and freshwater…
#DefineHarper
A couple of earlier posts have started a bit of a discussion about the messages which will be most effective in convincing voters – and particularly swing voters – to…
Jan. 24: The valiant struggle for democracy and the war on beheaders…..
(because there is so little foreign news in the Irving press, I have touched on some in the last part of this blog, under XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX) Free-world leaders are united in…
DeSmogCAST 9: U.S. Oil Exports Up, Kinder Morgan’s Secrets and Teens Sue for the Climate
In this episode of DeSmogCAST host Farron Cousins joins DeSmog cast Carol Linnitt and Justin Mikulka to discuss how recent changes in the global oil market, combined with a language…
Gruending On John A. & Clearing The Plains
Since James Daschuk’s Clearing The Plains came out last year Canadian’s have been forced to reassess John A. MacDonald’s place in the pantheon of Canadian heros. Among a fair bit…
Snow day
Of the Law Societies of Upper Canada and Nunavut
Consecutive and concurrent sentences
Cumulative punishments are known as consecutive sentences. This only applies to jail sentences, all other sentences run concurrently. All sentences are presumed to be served concurrently. The Code provides for…
Sunday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your Sunday reading. – Nicholas Kristof writes about the empathy gap which causes far too many wealthier citizens to devalue those who don’t have as much. Jesse…
Religion’s Twelve Deadly Sins
Alternet’s Valerie Tarico has written an insightful piece about 12-concepts, integral to organized religions, that “promote conflict, cruelty, suffering and death rather than love and peace.” First up is the…
A Nation Vexed by Anti-Vaxxers?
There’s a cult in the United States that’s come to be called the “Anti-Vaxxers.” The term describes parents who prevent their kids from receiving ordinary medical vaccinations. They claim the…
Stuff Happens, Week 3: A Mountie mourned; a politician quits; a football deflates.
Following the utterly pointless shootings of two RCMP officers in St. Albert, the question was asked: why was Shawn Rehn, the killer, walking free? It’s a good question. Rehn was…
Rochon on the Bank of Canada’s Decision to Lower the Rate of Interest
Louis-Philippe Rochon—who now blogs for CBC—argues that almost nobody had been expecting the Bank of Canada’s recent decision to lower the rate of interest. His post can be found here.…
let them stay week 2015: january 25-31: make your voice heard
Allan guest post Since September 2014, seven US Iraq War resisters have received negative decisions in their cases. Two veterans were given removal dates (i.e., dates by which they must…
It is recess time in the Ontario PC leadership.
It is like a middle school recess time. You should not need playground monitors but it is still a good idea to periodically look outside and make sure there are…
The Incremental Dictatorship
A guest post by Pamela Mac Neil In order for a government to be all powerful, it must dominate all of the major democratic institutions in a society and it…
Neo-Liberalism: The Undying Monster
http://www.horror-movies.ca/ Neo-Liberalism came to Canada long before Stephen Harper came to Ottawa. It was ushered into public policy by Brian Mulroney, who privatised crown corporations like Air Canada and Petro…
Stephen Harper’s Canada: Where Cons and Idiots Roam
Oh boy. It's lucky that where I live it's impossible to not know that I live in the Great White North.Because if it wasn't, I might wonder whether I'm still…
Danielle Smith to former Wildrose supporters: I didn’t leave you, you left me!
Danielle Smith to Wildrose Party members: I didn’t leave you! It was you that left me! Ever since the former Opposition leader shocked Alberta and significant parts of the rest…