Myth busting: the FBI director and the RCMP commissioner
Since Friday, a few readers – and others – have suggested that the FBI’s move in 2016 was just like the RCMP’s move in 2006. With the conservative option benefitting.…
October 2016
140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of October 31, 2016
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter A video posted by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on Oct 31, 2016 at 7:15am PDT Tips for handling a…
Watch Before the Flood Right Now
When I started this website about good news I never thought I would be mentioning Leonardo DiCaprio, but here we are. The award winning actor teamed up with Fisher Stevens…
Lament For A Vanishing World
Those who read this blog with any regularity probably know that nature is something near and dear to my heart. I defy people to watch well-made nature documentaries, walk among…
We Know How To Do Immigration
There is a lot of anti-immigration talk these days — notably from The Orange One south of the border. So some people in Canada raised their eyebrows when, last week,…
Clinton needs to fire the FBI guy first.
Donald Trump has found his roar back. It is the brass ring of political campaigns for losers. His mantra of “Corrupt Hillary” has been brainwashing his supporters for months. With…
Donald Trumpkin and the Scariest Halloween Ever
Well one thing's for sure, this is going to be the scariest Halloween ever. What with the monstrous Trumpkin scaring the bejesus out of kids and adults alike.But sadly, I…
22 million
That’s how many people have voted already in the U.S. Is that good news or bad news for Hillary? Well, take a look at this bunch of data the New…
The final week
This is the theme I would have been hammering away at – although not in the way this is done (too many talking heads). Here’s the original, about which I…
Ball, Bennett, Williams, and Marshall #nlpoli
One of the things finance minister Cathy Bennett told NTV’s Issues and Answers this weekend was that the Premier Dwight Ball scrapped the fall mini-budget in September in favour of…
Clown costumes verboten today in Fort Mac schools … but are Canadians safe when costumed mimes can walk our streets?
PHOTOS: Mump and Smoot, Edmonton’s clowns of horror. They’re not welcome in Fort McMurray’s public schools today. Below: Something new to worry about … the New York subway’s Mime of…
Opinion: Realities faced by black Canadians are a national shame (repost)
People gather in Montreal, Thursday, July 28, 2016, to denounce the death of Abdirahman Abdi in Ottawa. Graham Hughes / THE CANADIAN PRESS Read the rest of this post on…
Justice Myra Bielby to chair Alberta’s Electoral Boundaries Commission
The chair of the next Electoral Boundaries Commission was appointed last Thursday with little fanfare. Justice Myra Bielby, a Court of Appeal judge for Alberta, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut,…
Halloween costume ideas for Canadian digital rights activists
You’re a digital rights activists and are struggling to pick the right Halloween costume? Dave Maass, an investigative researcher with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, suggests facial recognition paint, stingrays, privacy…
How to Let Go of the World
I was really looking forward to seeing the latest Josh Fox film on fracking. I liked Gasland, and then Chris Hedges gave this film a nod, which means a lot…
Walk # 19 – The Point Part 5 – Rain
Kiss me with rain on your eyelashes, come on, let us sway together, under the trees, and to hell with thunder.” ― Edwin Morgan, A Book of Lives Started out…
Stuff Still Happens, week 43: An entirely Trump free blog (except for this mention)
See if you can guess in which country the following prison horror story took place. A 24-year-old man, accused of killing another inmate back in 2012, has been held in…
How About Another Holiday – Wallonia Day?
The federal government might not see it the same way but Ottawa should introduce a new holiday, Wallonia Day. It would mark the day those feisty little Belgian bantams stood…
Electoral Reform? Don’t Hold Your Breath.
Real Change? No, Sorry, Short Change. Alison at Creekside has prepared an important item on remarks by Trudeau’s minister of democratic institutions, Maryam Monsef, during a recent public meeting in…