More On James Forcillo
H/t Toronto StarIn response to yesterday's post, both the Salamander and the Mound of Sound offered some interesting commentary. The Salamander has experience in dealing with troubled and armed youth,…
January 2016
New column day
Here, on the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal's decision (PDF) finding that the failure to provide equal child services for First Nations is a human rights breach which requires federal action…
Lessons on Happiness From the Happiest Man Alive
What’s the key to happiness? Not thinking about yourself. Matthieu Ricard is a Tibetan Buddhist monk who has been deemed the world’s happiest man. Researchers scanned his brain to prove…
You don’t get much for $300 million!
Inflation is an unfeeling brute. By the time the Trudeau government brings our six aging F-18s back from the Middle East, Canadians will have spent close to $300 million on…
Energy East, Once Again
DeSmog Blog has a guest post on the Energy East pipeline. I am a huge fan of DeSmog, but I think this post is wrong-headed and ultimately counterproductive. Because it…
Stephen Harper, the Harper Cat, and the Latest Porky Scandal
As you know I have been frantically searching for Stephen Harper all over Canada and the United States.And I've even adjusted my missing wanted poster to reflect how he looked…
Moody’s warns NL government on finances #nlpoli
Moody's Investor Services is the second rating agency to give the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador a negative trending in light of the government';s financial problems.In a release, Moody's said…
Good Samaritan’s Remorse
There were plenty of warm, fuzzy feelings for western European nations as they threw open their doors to a horde of refugees fleeing the hell on Earth of modern Syria.…
NDP to release new energy royalty framework at week’s end – brace yourself for Apocalypse Friday!
PHOTOS: The next Apocalypse is scheduled for Friday morning. There will be an embargoed media briefing first. Below: Alberta Premier Rachel Notley, Wildrose Leader Brian Jean and Royalty Review Advisory…
Feds Announce Upstream Emissions Will be ‘Factor’ In Pipeline Decisions
The federal government announced on Wednesday the upstream greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with pipeline projects will be taken into consideration when federal cabinet makes its decisions on pipeline projects.…
No Social License for Maley Drive Phase 1 Project
The $80.1 million Maley Drive Extension Project, Phase 1, lacks the social license necessary for it to proceed at this time. While the price tag for Maley has ballooned, the…
No Social License for Maley Drive Phase 1 Project
The $80.1 million Maley Drive Extension Project, Phase 1, lacks the social license necessary for it to proceed at this time. While the price tag for Maley has ballooned, the…
Clarity On Rona Ambrose
Ed Tanas helps shed some light on the temporary Tory leader and chief resident hypocrite (competing with Tony Clement for that title, of course).Recommend this Post
In the Energy East Fight, We All Want the Same Things
This is a guest post by Mitchell Beer. It originally appeared on GreenPAC. The pitched media battle between Mayors Denis Coderre of Montreal and Naheed Nenshi of Calgary shows just…
Laying Down A Deadly Bluff
For ages now Canadians have been conditioned to accept that we “need” more pipelines to move more oil. Otherwise we’ll continue to exhaust train crews and have bombtrains in every…
Only exceptionally will a notice period exceed 24 months
Keenan v. Canac Kitchens Ltd., 2016 ONCA 79: If it fails on the first ground of appeal, Canac asks this court to set aside the trial judge's award of damages…
Jan. 27: some people annoy me.
Even good newspapers will occasionally run a trivia story. They do it because, when setting out the pages, they see an empty area. So they stick in a story (sometimes…
"The Good of the People Comes Before the Law." The Bullet We Dodged?
Thanks to the Supreme Court of Canada we never had to learn how far Stephen Harper would have been willing to go in indulging his authoritarian instincts had he not…