Update on Warman and the Cools post
The wheels of justice, as the saying goes, grind slowly. Long time readers will remember that I spent a good deal of time in 2008 investigating the allegation that Human…
January 2015
When They Cower In Abject Fear
http://www.mirror.co.uk/ Tomorrow, we’re told, the Harper government will introduce its new anti-terror legislation. Recent events have proved to be the undoing of the Harperian economy. So a diversion is in…
Stephen Harper’s Disastrous Return to Parliament
As I'm sure you know, Stephen Harper has been under a lot of stress recently. The economy is tanking, he blew the surplus before he had one, only the dumb…
Go hard left, then go hard right
Either way, it’s veering all over the road. The anti-terror legislation isn’t tabled, yet, so no one outside a small circle within the government actually knows what is in it.…
Balancing Act Important For Democracy
A guest artile by Jared Milne I’m currently reading Brent Rathgeber’s excellent book “Irresponsible Government: the Decline of Parliamentary Democracy in Canada”, which describes the methods that Canadian prime ministers…
Public service: a rewarding career
This is a small piece of information learned in my recent examination of business in Norway. In the article Two Oil Economies, I mentioned Norway’s Government Pension Fund Global, the…
Acting Like a Leader #nlpoli
In his first major public appearance since cutting public representation in the House of Assembly last week, Premier Paul Davis flatly rejected the objections of the province’s municipalities and a…
Dean Del Mastro and the Barbarity of the Cons
Well I'm sure it's just a coincidence that on the day Dean Del Mastro appeared in court for his sentencing hearing. And demanded a mistrial. Former MP Dean Del Mastro…
You Deserve Better Wages and Benefits
Right wingers want to pay no tax. It’s hard to bleat about that in public without sounding like the greedy, selfish people they are. Instead, they say that public sector…
Craig Chaplin Memorial Award to be presented again this year; exciting details to follow
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Who will stop the Jim Prentice juggernaut?
The past few months have been a sobering reminder that it foolish to underestimate the staying power of Alberta’s 43-year long governing Progressive Conservatives. A year ago the scandal ridden…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Cradled cats.
Del Polliaollo portrait
The drawing is better, the resemblance is better, but just not there yet. I should likely stop and just measure. The tendency to prettify and make cute is so unconscious.…
Stephen Harper and the Scandalous War on Marijuana
Well I'm sure you remember how last fall Stephen Harper and his Cons launched a massive advertising blitz aimed at the parents of teenagers who use marijuana.Whose exaggerated claims resembled…
Weak Economy? ‘They’ Wouldn’t Have It Any Other Way.
Take it from Joe. Nobel laureate economist Joe Stiglitz to be precise. The near-global stagnation witnessed in 2014 is man-made. It is the result of politics and policies in several…
The Prevention of Our Breathing and Catching Our Second Wind, by Sanyika Shakur
We Can’t Breathe without control of our destiny! We Can’t Breathe under neo-colonialism! We Can’t Breathe with capitalism’s hands around our throats! We Can’t Breathe under bourgeois democracy! We Can’t…
Failure to consider immigration consequences of sentence an error in principle
R. v. N. F., 2015 ONCA 51: The failure to consider the specific immigration consequences of a carceral sentence of six months or more was an error in principle disentitling…
Daily Dot: The Internet is crashing the TPP’s party
Internet activists got all up in TPP negotiators’ faces yesterday. Article by Dell Cameron for The Daily Dot Fed up with secret meetings that will decide the future of trade…