How to make Marijuana legal if Stephen Harper wins…
Today is going to be a what if kind of day. No, I do not think Stephen Harper has a chance at retaining his role as Prime Minister, but if…
October 2015
How to make Marijuana legal if Stephen Harper wins…
Today is going to be a what if kind of day. No, I do not think Stephen Harper has a chance at retaining his role as Prime Minister, but if…
How to make Marijuana legal if Stephen Harper wins…
Today is going to be a what if kind of day. No, I do not think Stephen Harper has a chance at retaining his role as Prime Minister, but if…
Advice to New Democrats, free of charge
Researching next week’s Hill Times column, it occurred to me that I should look at one of my old books, The War Room. I think I found a passage there…
Are We Heading for the Crimean Showdown Only in Syria?
For months there were great fears that the standoff between NATO and Russia over Ukraine could get out of control, Cold War II turning into WWIII in a heartbeat. Putin…
New column day
Here, on how we should call out the Cons’ bigotry surrounding the niqab for its own ill intent as well as for its effect of distracting from more substantive election…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Rosemary Barton discusses why it’s in Canada’s best interest on the global stage to work on building strong multilateral institutions (including the…
A Civilization Living in an Antique Shop
You know as soon as you disembark from your train at London’s Victoria Station that you’re strolling through a genuine antique, a window in time. The station, which came into…
I need your help to help the Royal Canadian Legion
A friend of mine has been strenuously advocating for Royal Canadian Legion Poppy Funds – to help veterans with Post Tramautic Stress Injury, and to get them a specially-trained therapeutic…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Thursday, October 1, 2015
Your news links for today: Leaked Email Shows Canada’s Foreign Ministry Is Pissed That Staff Are Leaking Secret Docs – VICE News So why all the secrecy on TPP? –…
Ah, Jeebus! Is Everything Rigged?
Last week it was Volkswagen getting caught having embedded “defeat device” code into its diesel engine systems to confound emissions testers. Then it was news that just about every other…
Hope Fades ……
It is becoming difficult to hold on to hope. Despite all we know about the Harper regime, despite all that has been written about its corruption, its abuse of power,…
How Lynton Crosby Brought Stephen Harper Back From the Dead
I must admit it is getting a bit grim out there. Fall has finally arrived, it's getting colder and darker, the skies over this ghastly Harperland are filled with flying…
Be a Part of the Future: Sign the Leap Manifesto
Canada has been destroying it’s own environment (and trashing international environmental policy) for way too long. As a result of this ignorant neglect a bunch of prominent Canadians have produced…
Bail is not jail
R v Ijam, 2007 ONCA 597, O.J. No. 3395, at paras. 36-37: Fourth, I do not accept the proposition that bail, even with stringent conditions, and pre-trial custody are to…
Wombat Attack
http://www.dailymail.co.uk It’s clear that Lynton Crosby is now in charge of the Harper campaign. How else do you explain the prime minister’s railing about niqabs in the face of two…
I Don’t Know
They may be the three most difficult words for certain professionals to utter.The mere temptation to speak them aloud has even been known (among some, it is rumoured), to dredge…
KCCCC Day 60: close don’t count in baseball
Frank Robinson said that. “Close don’t count in baseball. Only counts in horseshoes and grenades.” But what about politics? Does close count in the political game? Well, how close are…
Turning the corner on the 2015 election.
There are many wonderful readers of Babel-on-the-Bay. The other day one of our stalwarts sent an e-mail saying how warming it was to read that the Harper government is toast.…