More Grim Records for the Arctic.
The 2015 "Arctic Report Card" has been released by NOAA, America's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. In case you haven't guessed the gist of the report, here are a few…
2015
This Sounds Like a First – the Sahara Reaches Britain
For some time now dust storms from the Sahara Desert have crossed the Mediterranean to reach the southernmost parts of Europe. That's one thing but Britain, surely not?A Saharan dust…
Assisted Suicide
The legalization of assisted suicide says a lot about Canadian society in 2015. Regardless of whether you agree that someone should be entitled to medical assistance to end their life…
Vlad Walks the Walk Only It’s the "KGB Stomp"
This is really weird. Vladimir Putin's rise to the top began with a career in the Soviet Union's dreaded KGB where he reached the rank of lieutenant colonel.Scientists who've been…
Sure Sounds Like Union-Busting To Me
Call it what you will, anything that circumvents union rights is odious, and it appears to have happened to Hamilton, Ontario. Independent television station station CHCH, a mainstay of the…
Meningitis Outbreak in Africa Will Not Happen
Meningitis has killed a lot of people, most of them in Africa in what is referred to as “the meningitis belt”. Every couple of years a meningitis outbreak flares up…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Karl Nerenberg weighs in on the Libs' choice to direct billions of dollars toward higher-income individuals, rather than working to help Canadians who need…
Raise Corporate Taxes To Fund Ontario’s Infrastructure Deficit: An Alternative Policy Proposal
The province of Ontario currently faces a significant public infrastructure deficit which is harming its economic productivity and its quality of life. The government’s own numbers estimate that deficit at…
37 health care findings by the Auditor General: Performance Problems
The litany of health care problems identified by the Auditor General is frightening. Here's thirty-seven of them.Local Health Integration Networks (LHINs): Problems, Problems, ProblemsLHINs have not met performance expectations. "Most…
Jeb! beat The Donald, plus a highly-scientific poll
He needed to bring his best game, and I think he did. “Donald, you aren’t going to be able to insult your way to the presidency.” Bush was tough, clear…
The Ghost of Liberals Present.
When the second ghost confronted him, Ebenezer Scrooge was hardly convinced to mend his ways. In Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, it was the spirit of the under classes that…
The Day Mike Duffy Pointed the Finger at Stephen Harper
It was the day Stephen Harper had been dreading. The one that has forced him to keep such a low profile some are calling him the invisible man of Parliament.Or…
The Bonds of Muskrat Falls #nlpoli
15 minutes.That’s all Tom Marshall said it would take to sell out the bonds on Muskrat Falls.He also said that a federal lone guarantee would lower electricity prices for consumers…
Violent, lurid and misogynistic threats against NDP politicians are both enabled and exposed by social media
PHOTOS: Opposition Leader Brian Jean addresses foes of Bill 6 on the steps of the Alberta Legislature. (Photo grabbed from his Facebook page.) Below: Alberta premiers Ralph Klein, Alison Redford,…
Detroiters struggle to survive without city water (repost)
How do you survive without running water for more than two years? First, get a trash can. Put it under the roof to collect water to flush the toilet. Then,…
In Flint, Mich., there’s so much lead in children’s blood that a state of emergency is declared (repost)
For months, worried parents in Flint, Mich., arrived at their pediatricians’ offices in droves. Holding a toddler by the hand or an infant in their arms, they all have the…
Connecting the disconnected: when South Asians accuse East Africans of cultural appropriation (repost)
On August 9th, Yasmin Yonis, a Somali-American writer, caused a Twitter storm when she started a conversation about accusations of cultural appropriation made by South Asian Twitter against Black Twitter.…
Causation in culpable homicide
R. v. Malkowski, 2015 ONCA 887: We begin with the following general principles concerning causation:· the causation standard in motor vehicle offences involvin...
Recommendations from the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
Today, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada released its Final Report on the human rights violations perpetrated through the aboriginal residential school policy. Here are a few of the…