Satire inspired by these headlines: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/charlie-hebdo-paris-shooting-canadian-politicians-react-1.2892340 & http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/stephen-harper-bans-chinese-media-from-arctic-trip-1.2744310
For a break, I thought Iid like to write about something broader and more useful than the Irving press. That occurred to me as I read the story about the…
It’s not every day that a major Ontario psychiatric hospital is placed on trial, much less two. Health care workers across the province will be closely watching the outcome of…
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter: Bill Cosby applauded at first of three Ontario shows Wednesday night – Winnipeg Free Press Bre-X lawyer Joe Groia…
The New Year came and went and it was such a busy time for political comment that we missed commenting on the past year. And that year needs a look.…
http://www.cpcml.ca/ Much has been said of late about the Harper dictatorship. However, Canadians have failed to notice that Stephen Harper is waging an unrelenting war on medicare. Linda
There are many ways in which the ‘Fair’ Elections Act makes it more difficult for Canadians to exercise their voting rights; a group especially hard hit are aboriginals, not known…
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Duncan Exley points out that the UK has nothing to be proud of when it comes to income inequality. And Bill Curry…
I’ve written books about the notion that, when it comes to speech, reasonable limits should indeed exist. Calling for genocide against a group of people, for example. Holocaust denial in…
Here, on the OECD’s working paper showing that stronger environmental policies are entirely consistent with a more productive economy. For further reading…– Obviously, the area where the need for more…
A new deal to tackle climate change expected to be agreed in Paris in December is unlikely to prevent dangerous climate change, energy secretary Ed Davey has warned. Davey said…
BC Stats published the monthly numbers for log exports to November 2014. The number reinforce arguments made in a recent Times Colonist Op Ed. An excerpt: B.C. government has gradually…
I’ve been really unmotivated to write any posts as of late. The barrage of lies coming from the establishment media is just overwhelming, where to even begin? The most dangerous…
Say what you want about Lorraine Michael, but you have to admit that she knows what she wants to do. Lorraine has spent her adult life as an advocate. That’s…
It's not going to be easy to write this post, because the anger I felt earlier today, has been replaced by sadness and shock.Sadness for those who were killed, and…
Well, it’s the Poverty Reduction Coalition! One of their many activities is to send recommendations to the government when the government deigns to ask people for their ideas. The Finance…
According to the unintendedly ironic and transitory layout on CBC Calgary’s news page yesterday afternoon, it looked as if former Wildrose Party leader Danielle Smith is up Schitt$ Creek. Actually,…
A new study published today in the journal Nature finds the vast majority – 99 per cent – of Canada’s oilsands are “unburnable” if the world is to avoid a…
MOLLY COMES BACK It's been almost a year now that I've been away from blogging, and I'm sure it will take some 'flexibility exercises' to get back in form. Here,…
MOLLY COMES BACK It’s been almost a year now that I’ve been away from blogging, and I’m sure it will take some ‘flexibility exercises’ to get back in form. Here,…
