Vice: Canadian Cops Want to Search Your Mail
Update: The RCMP is now going after your mail. Article by Justin Ling for Vice With a federal election in its home stretch, Canada’s chiefs of police have issued a…
2015
Of Grey Suits Stuffed with Wet Cardboard
Many, many times I’ve described the leaders of our three mainstream parties as grey suits stuffed with wet cardboard. Nothing that has happened in the course of this election has…
Opinion: Why does Canada jail migrants? Changes in immigration policy have had devastating effect on families
Richard Hughes Immigrants and refugees have been abused and mistreated, but there circumstances are mostly unseen. This site, ‘Never Home’, is a call for us to take action over the…
The Hot Nasties! The Secret of Immortality!
The one Maine Sessions Hot Nasties video that wasn’t posted – the song that Fucked Up’s Damian Abraham wants played at his funeral. As no less than Damian has noted,…
How many languages are spoken in the world?
The total languages are 6,500. How these languages evolved? I don’t know the answer.The top language spoken in the world is Chinese. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Language1 Approx. numberof speakers 1. Chinese2 1,197,000,000…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Tuesday, September 1, 2015
Your news links for today: Canadian Cops Want to Search Your Mail – VICE News EFF to Supreme Court: Police Need a Warrant for Americans’ Cell Phone Location Records –…
Collaborate to Conserve: The Rise of Business-Municipality Water Initiatives
As the creation of the Water Program by the Carbon Disclosure Project shows, managements and investors increasingly recognize the importance of the water-energy nexus and water-related risks. Businesses across Canada…
Learning to Let Go With Love and Confidence
By Guest Contributor, Kathy Bell My son Kevin is 20 years old. Kevin has Mowat Wilson Syndrome, a condition that involves developmental and medical challenges. He is non-verbal (although he…
Jason Kenney provides new definition of an “electoral victory”!
Hot on the heels of Minister Kenney’s proposed redefinition of a “recession”, comes some thoughts on what exactly consists an electoral “victory” or “win” as the determinant of who forms…
Collaborate to Conserve: The Rise of Business-Municipality Water Initiatives
As the creation of the Water Program by the Carbon Disclosure Project shows, managements and investors increasingly recognize the importance of the water-energy nexus and water-related risks. Businesses across Canada…
Something For The Harper Base To Ponder
Unless they want to add complete hypocrisy to their many other shortcomings, members of the Harper base have much to consider these days, not least of which is their leader’s…
KCCCC Day 30: when the water dries up, all the animals start looking at each other funny
It’s September. It’s day 30 (by my count, anyway). And that means all of the parties are going to get really edgy, starting today. As the departed Rod Love once…
Quote Of The Day
Not about polls or the lousy economy, but newsworthy nevertheless: “…as Christian business owners, our personal beliefs will not allow our conscience the freedom to work with a labour union,…
The silence of the pipelines.
There is not too much confrontation across Canada these days about pipelines to the sea. With real crude oil prices bouncing around $40 to $50 a barrel, there is not…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Sherri Torjman comments on the importance of social policy among our political choices, while lamenting its absence from the first leaders’ debate:…
The Sociology of Neo-Liberalism in One Easy Lesson. . . .
Looking back now over many years, I think we can say that Stephen Harper’s goal during his time in politics has been fairly simple and clear. The overarching goal has…
Watching the Sunset
In the 1980’s, America’s economy began to rust out. Ronald Reagan told the unemployed in cities like Detroit, Baltimore and Garry, Indiana that they should move out of town and…
Stephen Harper’s Recession Nightmare and the Return of Pamela Wallin
The timing couldn't be worse. Just when Stephen Harper thought he had escaped the stench of the Duffy scandal, and could now focus all his efforts on posing as a…
Move Along, #Harperman – We’ll Take It From Here
What began as a discussion* (and mocking) of the sideshow of the day song of a generation turned into a great exchange about political/protest tunes. I’ve collected some of the…
New Englanders know you’re bullshitting ‘em, Paul #nlpoli
The New England governors and eastern Canadian premiers were in town on Monday for a quick meeting. The only thing that seemed to make local news was talk about electricity…