War and Racism – The Timeless Strategy of Tyrants like Harper. . . .
The past few months have been for me some of the most depressing, politically speaking, that I have ever experienced. I can’t say that I was surprised by any means…
March 2015
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Michal Rozworski reminds us that while a shift toward precarious work may represent an unwanted change from the few decades where labour…
Work set to begin on $1.9M Asian carp berm at Eagle Marsh
Entrance to Eagle Marsh in Fort Wayne, Indiana, part of the Little River Wetlands Project. (Andrew Reeves) FORT WAYNE, INDIANA — Recently, I travelled to Eagle Marsh to see first…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Tuesday, March 10, 2015
Your news links for today: Wikimedia v. NSA: Wikimedia Foundation files suit against NSA to challenge upstream mass surveillance – Wikimedia The NSA Has Taken Over the Internet Backbone. We’re…
A Pathetic Failure
A lot of electronic ink has been spilled of late on the subject of Bill C-51. And the effort has been called for. But the irony of all that spent…
Focus Less on Work to Improve Everything – Even Your Job
Stressed about not getting enough done at work? Don’t be. It turns out that you can improve how much you get things done at the office by not thinking about…
Human Rights And The Politics Of Fear
When Alex Neve, longtime Secretary General of the Canadian branch of Amnesty International, speaks, people should listen. He and his organization have now weighed in on Bill C-51, the ‘anti-terror’…
If you thought Election 2015 wouldn’t go neg, think again
Likening opponent to an anti-Semite, attacking an opponent's kids, calling citizens "brown people." Quite the start to the week, #cdnpoli. — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) March 10, 2015 A refresher: John…
Which wicket for social licenses?
There seem to be many ways to use the term ‘Social License.’ Natural resource extraction and pipeline industries use the term to describe the theoretical license the community provides to…
Justin Trudeau and the Politics of Fear
The other day I wrote a post where I asked, or begged our progressive leaders to elevate their game. To go big or go home.And make the struggle to defeat…
Jason Kenney Disgraces Himself Again
Yesterday I confidently predicted that Jason Kenney would be the worst Defence Minister this country has ever known.And I accused him of being a holy hypocrite, for claiming he was…
Gimme that Old-Time Religion #nlpoli
Kim Keating is the president of the St. John’s Board of Trade this year. In her Telegram column on Saturday, Keating offered some advice to the provincial government about the…
Ex-Conservative Senator Wallin committed “breach of trust and fraud”: RCMP
The RCMP announced Monday that ex-Conservative Senator Pamela Wallin, a Harper appointee, “committed the offences of breach of trust and fraud.” The post Ex-Conservative Senator Wallin committed “breach of trust…
Pamela Wallin and the Embarrassment of Stephen Harper
Uh oh. As if Stephen Harper didn't have enough problems.In less than a month the Mike Duffy trial will begin. Two days after that his former parliamentary secretary Dean Del…
Netanyahu, the Other Israelis, and Bobby Burns
Photo by Cherie Cullen Apart from inadvertently making the case for equal time by his Israeli pre-election opposition, the spectacle of Benjamin Netanyahu’s wild diatribe at the joint session of…
O Glorious Justin!: Trudeau’s Speech
“It is a cruel joke to claim that you are liberating people from oppression by dictating in law what they can and cannot choose to wear”— Paul Wells (@InklessPW) March…
Treaty 3 First Nations Sign Declaration Against Transport of Bitumen in Territory Without Consent
A wall of First Nations opposition to the proposed Energy East oil pipeline is emerging in northwestern Ontario, where Treaty 3 Anishinaabe chiefs unanimously endorsed a declaration on crude shipments…
Treaty 3 First Nations Sign Declaration Against Transport of Bitumen in Territory Without Consent
A wall of First Nations opposition to the proposed Energy East oil pipeline is emerging in northwestern Ontario, where Treaty 3 Anishinaabe chiefs unanimously endorsed a declaration on crude shipments…
Elements of possession
R. v. Midwinter, 2015 ONCA 150 To establish personal possession for the purposes of s. 4(3) of the Criminal Code, the Crown must establish that the accused had both control…