"Man Has Gone Too Far." Pope Francis Comes Out Swinging.
What better place to speak out against climate change than the severe storm ravaged Philippines? Wading into the climate change debate on board the papal plane, the Pope told journalists…
January 2015
Globe and Mail: New anti-spam measures target malware
We’re happy to see new measures to prevent software from being installed on Canadians’ computers without consent. Check out this article for a deep dive on what these new rules…
The Enemy Within. At Some Point You Have to Take Sides.
Don’t waste your breath. It’s futile to try to work with energy giants on environmental issues at least according to one of Britain’s leading environmentalists, Jonathon Porritt, who has thrown…
‘Je suis Charlie’? Not I. Here’s why…
Photo by Claude Truong-Ngoc Hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of people are taking to the streets in France and elsewhere in Europe and North America to protest the brutal murderous…
Steve Jong-un, Canada’s Closet Croucher
I’ll bet if Steve Harper and Kim Jong-un were marooned on an island together for a few weeks they might discover they had more in common than they might have…
With Oil Prices Tanking, Thank Gawd That Premier Brad Wall Set Aside Some Royalty Money For Saskatchewan’s Hard Times
… oh wait!!! That never happened!! Brad Wall blew a multi billion dollar surplus left to him by the former government AND he allowed the Oil industry to extract Billions…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Thursday, January 15, 2015
Your news links for today: New counterterrorism bill to override certain privacy limits – CBC News David Cameron Wants to Turn Off Encryption. – Medium David Cameron seeks cooperation of…
World Economic Forum Sees War as Greatest Threat to Global Stability
A report from the World Economic Forum sees inter-state war as the top threat to global stability in the decade ahead and water as the main factor that will trigger…
No reasonable offer refused!
It is an election year and, accordingly, folks are already asking me about banner advertising on this here web site. Last time, the Libs got to it first. This time,…
Did Nothing All Day. Sears Catalogue Came!
John Klein: This day, 30 years ago in Toronto, the Spring and Summer Sears Catalogue was delivered. Today, Target prepares to close in Canada. It’s a coincidence. Originally posted on…
Toward Democratic Renewal
I’m sure that all progressive bloggers are disheartened and bedeviled by the devolution of democracy in Canada. Not only has it been under consistent and sustained attack by the Harper…
Alice Funke has everything you need to know about the next federal election
Right here: How a little-noticed clause in the Fair Elections Act up-ends all conventional election timing speculation on her blog Pundit’s Guide. Shorter Funke: will the Tories use a change…
New column day
Here, on the Wall government’s secret attack on overtime pay for retail workers – and how it reflects a preference for the rule of lobbyists over the rule of law.…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Thursday, January 15, 2015
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter: There are more slaves today than at any time in human history Justice of the Peace Santino Spadafora retires…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Scott Sinclair studies the effect of NAFTA on government policies, and finds that it’s been used primarily (and all too frequently) to…
A friendly note to the American Congress.
Hey you jerks, please do not do that for us. We do not want the Keystone XL pipeline either. Canadians who care are firmly against any pipelines that try to…
Coalition Redux
Never ones to shy away from expressing strong opinions, Toronto Star readers weigh in again on the best way to try to defeat Mr. Harper in the next election: Re:…
It Was Like Walking Through An Abandoned Walmart…
Target Canada has closed its doors. I won’t have much to remember them by, because they never had the product I went to there to buy, even when it was…
Now Is The Time, Justin
http://theeyeopener.com/ Talk of proportional representation has been around for a long time. Linda McQuaig writes: The most widely-supported version of PR for Canada — called Mixed Member Proportional (MMP)
The Pope agrees with me, naturally
Free speech, but not without limits. But the best part? The notion of priestly fisticuffs. Classic. By way of example, referred to Alberto Gasparri, who organizes papal trips and was…