Saturday Photo: Now We’re Deep into Spring
Perhaps because winter closes down so many things, the odors of spring are particularly poignant here. Oh, there are days when people say “it smells like snow” and there are…
June 2015
From The Heartland
When moral imperatives and climate change denial meet head on, you know who feels they occupy the higher ground when The Heartland Institute is involved. The following video captures their…
Conservative MP Declines Debate
Bruce Grey Owen Sound MP Larry Miller is declining an invite to take part in an all candidates debate sponsored by the Owen Sound and District Chamber of Commerce. He…
M’sieur Mulcair’s mistake.
There is a television commercial running at this time that is starting to grate. It begins with a totally unconnected part that has something to do with a dry cleaning…
The Future Of Medicare
http://theconversation.com/ Boosting the Canada Pension Plan is on the election radar. But we haven’t heard a word about medicare. And, Murray Dobbins writes, there are several vultures circling that program.…
Horror Story: The Ghastly Picture of Chris Alexander
As some of you may know, I like to compare the Con Immigration Minister Chris Alexander, to the ghastly portrait in The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde's classic story.Except…
Growth, what growth? Thatcherism fails to produce the goods | Business | The Guardian
Growth, what growth? Thatcherism fails to produce the goods | Business | The Guardian. Katie Allen Margaret Thatcher’s policies of privatisation, light-touch regulation and low income tax failed to boost…
Academics attack George Osborne budget surplus proposal | Business | The Guardian
Academics attack George Osborne budget surplus proposal | Business | The Guardian. Filed under: Austerity Tagged: Austerity, Britain, Conservative Party
Musical interlude
Grimes & Bleachers – Entropy
#Draw4Atena
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NC Councillor Rob Douglas-Roger Hart—Big Idea No. 3: Community Investment Funds
Here is the Big Idea No.3 from Rob Douglas and Roger Hart regarding economic development and the potential of expanding co-operatives in the Cowicham Region. Big Idea No.3: Community Investment…
Beauty out of Disaster: And the Birds Rained Down
Last night my bookies in Kirkland discussed Jocelyn Saucier’s Il pleuvait des oiseaux—And the Birds Rained Down in English translation by Rhonda Mullins- The story has haunted me all day.This…
I Wouln’t Have Thought The Smell Of Sulphur Would Bother Him
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“I wonder if she gets paid.”
I wonder if she gets paid. “@GreenpeaceCA: Arctic drilling is obscene. @Janefonda http://t.co/MRRx4vvo6o pic.twitter.com/2vAlfXhw5e” — Vivian Krause (@FairQuestions) June 12, 2015 I wonder if she gets paid, to ask that.…
Orange Surge: New Poll Shows the NDP Leading the Other Parties
As I've been saying for quite a while the winds of change are sweeping across this country, and the latest EKOS poll only confirms that.The NDP is still rising like…
So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed Into Climate Action: On Harper’s Promise to End Fossil Fuels
Stephen Harper’s participation in the G7 leader’s declaration to decarbonize the global economy by 2100 was a massive headline generator in Canada, and not surprisingly so. For a Prime Minister…
I have gone retro psychedelic.
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Arson is a general intent offence
R. v. Tatton, 2015 SCC 33: The offence of arson in s. 434 of the Criminal Code is a general intent offence for which intoxication falling short of automatism is…