The Hair’s Farewell Tour?
You can hardly blame the Hair for not wanting to hurry home. He and his hairdresser are touring Europe in style—and Bavaria is so beautiful this time of year. There…
June 2015
The Sad Demise Of The CBC
http://www.cbc.ca/ There has been a lot of commentary already written about Evan Soloman and the CBC. Amid the Niagara of words about what has happened, I found two columns particularly…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Chris Mooney takes a look at the positive side of social influences on behaviour, as new research shows a correlation between spending time…
Use Siri Dictation Commands to Punctuate Your Life (Or at Very Least, Your Email)
I’ve previously blogged at Slaw Tips on the virtues of using Siri’s dictation functions to draft letters, emails and other documents typically created in day-to-day legal practice.In short, dictation with…
New anti-Conservative ad campaign starts
Link here. What do you think, folks? Will it work? Is the main beneficiary the Grits? Dippers? Greens? None of the above?
Newfoundland and Labrador Redistribution Transposition
Below is my transposition for the new provincial electoral boundaries in Newfoundland and Labrador. For some background, the new boundaries are kind of odd – they reduce, rather than increase,…
Going from first place to third!
Great job, Team Trudeau! Way to go! “Liberals losing steam as election approaches, polls suggest After leading in the polls for 2 years, the party is in danger of falling…
Will the Politics of Division Help Bring Down the Harper Regime?
Let it be recorded in the chronicle of this dark time, that seven years to the day after he apologized for the residential school tragedy, Stephen Harper deliberately chose not…
Small things and big differences #nlpoli
The Auditor General delivered his annual report on some of the provincial government’s programs and services on Wednesday. We learned, among other things that provincial government consulting contracts have gone…
Alternate Future, Proportional Representation.
Another addition in my Alternate History (AH) series; an alternate future. This story is set sometime after the 2031 seat redistribution I went over earlier. There are two small changes…
Inside baseball: Legislature picks Speaker; Albertans to get first glimpse of NDP policy Monday
PHOTOS: Opposition Leader Brian Jean, at left, and Premier Rachel Notley, far right, drag the new Speaker, Medicine Hat MLA Bob Wanner, to his chair, a tradition dating to the…
Notley’s NDP should ban corporate and union donations in municipal elections
One of the main promises made by the NDP before their win in the May 2015 provincial election was a commitment to ban corporate and union donations in provincial politics.…
The latest from the neo-Nazi rag Canada Post still delivers
Clockwise, from top right: Twitter message from editor James Sears; cover photo of Nazi rally; call to expel the Jewish “parasite;” illustration of Hitler and Holocaust denier Ernat Zundel; anti-Semitic…
Medical marijuana includes cookies, brownies
R. v. Smith, 2015 SCC 34: Accused persons have standing to challenge the constitutionality of the law under which they are charged, even if the alleged unconstitutional effects are not…
Petronas’ LNG project gets ‘conditional approval’, despite First Nations opposition
Ex-Petronas CEO Shamsul Abbas shaking hands with BC Premier Christy Clark in 2014 Read this June 11 Globe and Mail story by Brent Jang on the “conditional approval” given by…
Solar Project Proponents Digging Themselves a Hole in Greater Sudbury
I’ve just returned from one of the most disastrous public meetings that I’ve ever attended. Maybe it’s number 2 on my list of all-time examples of how not to hold…
The Con Clown Rona Ambrose and the Great War on Marijuana
OMG. I don't what we're going to do with the Con clown Rona Ambrose. She doesn't seem to understand that she supposed to be the Minister of Health, not the…
What does MEP Cavada want the future of copyright to look like?
At OpenMedia in our fight to protect the free and open Internet, we often come up against worthy adversaries. Sometimes they are elected representatives, sometimes they’re industry spokespeople, and sometimes…
The Day Pope Francis Humiliated Stephen Harper
Well it seems that it was as I predicted yesterday. Pope Francis was indeed not too happy to see Stephen Harper.And couldn't have made his feelings more obvious. Harper’s 10-minute…
West Coast demands reinstatement of illegally fired ALC Chair – and we encourage you to do so, as well
Monday, June 15, 2015 On May 14, 2015, nearly seven months before the designated end of his term, the BC Cabinet terminated Richard Bullock from his position as Chair of…