Arab Countries Need To Be Doing More On Syrian Refugees
(Arab League Flag) Like many Canadians I had a very heart felt response to the picture of the three year old who laid face down dead after trying to cross…
September 2015
After offence conduct
R. v. Hill, 2015 ONCA 616 is a good case saying that, in general, after offence conduct is not relevant to distinguish between manslaughter and murder
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Elevated cats.
Marker of Change motion passes unanimously
Thank you to the Women’s Monument Action Committee and all Commissioners for your support. Here are my remarks from last night’s Park Board meeting: It is my great honour and…
Stephen Harper’s "Kiddie Porn Surplus"
Let’s call a spade a spade. Once again the Prince of Darkness is doing what he does best – lying straight into the face of the Canadian public. Harper defends…
Sept. 15: Good Christian men rejoice!
Still got your Charlie Hebdo T shirt? You remember, Charlie Hebdo was that freedom loving cartoon paper in France that we all cheered for when it was attacked and some…
Heroes And Villains
The heroes, of course, are the ones who risk their lives fighting these conflagrations; the villains, the rest of us, for our unwillingness to force real measures to combat the…
The #Kinsellabration pix came in the mail today
Like this one.
WHAT? Assad Was Willing to Go Three Years Ago and We Ignored the Deal?
Okay, this is directly from former Finnish president and Nobel peace prize laureate, Martti Ahtissari. He says Russia came up with a deal in 2012 whereby Bashar Assad would step…
Why Strategic Voting is essential for Canada
Justin Trudeau (Photo: John McCallum/Flickr/Som Jandu) and Tom Mulcair (Photo: BCNDP/Flickr) By Doug Carrick The Conservatives may be a disaster at governing a nation, but they are experts at manipulating…
Let’s make Canada’s parties endorse our pro-Internet action plan
Exciting news! Green Party leader Elizabeth May has just announced her endorsement of our crowdsourced pro-Internet action plan. So far Ms. May is the first major party leader to do…
China: Reformers and Compradors
18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, November 2012 • Photo by 东方 China’s wealthiest classes have secured their recent fortunes through various means, both legal and illegal:…
A Baby Boomer’s plea: On Harper, Legacy and the Canadian election
At least one Baby Boomer hopes to see Harper exit the political stage on Oct. 19 (Flickr/Stephen Harper) This is for my fellow baby boomers. Yes, I mean you +55ers…
Ten thousand clicks
This morning was a pretty normal pre-work trip up to Champlain lookout. Except that I rode my 10,000th kilometre for the year on it.
What Did We Expect?
It’s been a while since the Americans started telling us about this invisible wunder-plane they were developing. Many years later they’re still developing the F-35, their overpriced, overdue, underperforming, bottom-tier…
Peeking Under Shifty Harper’s Carpet
Canada’s information commissioner is taking the Harper government to court to compel release of PMO documents pertaining to Senators Duffy, Wallin, Brazeau and Harb since March of last year. The…
Trivial Pursuits
Now that the draft version of the so-called “community-based strategic plan” has been presented to council, I felt it appropriate to comment on this latest version. I have already posted…
Sue the Bastards. It Could Be Our Last Best Hope.
The next step in the fight to arrest climate change is court action. I do something that I know or ought to know is probably injurious to others. You are…