Dirt – Overstating The Obvious
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2016
#AskAmbrose: Rona Ambrose Avoided Canadians’ Tough Questions During Twitter Q&A
#AskAmbrose? On Tuesday, Rona Ambrose hosted a Q&A session at Twitter headquarters. The interim Conservative leader avoided Canadians' tough questions. The post #AskAmbrose: Rona Ambrose Avoided Canadians’ Tough Questions During…
Time for action
A reader comment in a preceding article:We all have to be 'shovel ready' for the upcoming election and 'Turf the Liberals'.There will be massive 1%er sponsored support and corporate funded…
Type Crimes and Taxes
Type crime is the term author Ellen Lupton uses in her book, Thinking With Type, to describe egregiously bad typography. That description came to mind as I perused the latest…
Written Behind Bars, This 1850s Memoir Links Prisons To Plantations (repost)
At an estate sale in Rochester, N.Y., in 2009, a rare book seller came upon a curious literary artifact. As it turned out, it was a memoir written in the…
When does a limitation period commence for a continuing breach of contract?
Pickering Square Inc. v. Trillium College Inc., 2016 ONCA 179: I agree with the motion judge that the proper approach to the calculation of the limitation period in the context…
Quebec’s Energy East Injunction A Matter Of Law, Not Opposition, Environment Minister Says
Quebec Environment Minister David Heurtel announced Tuesday the province is filing a legal injunction against TransCanada’s proposed Energy East oil pipeline with Quebec’s Superior Court. “Today's motion is very simple…
March 3: The climate ain’t changing. Nah…
Moncton has had the mildest winter since 1881. (And there are no records before 1881.) As well, the Atlantic Ocean off Nova Scotia is 4 degrees warmer than normal. That's…
Speaking of the Great State of Idiocracy
Okay, here's a story about a guy who shot and killed himself while taking a selfie with his pistol. Seems when he unloaded the gun he forgot all about that…
Quebec’s Energy East Injunction A Matter Of Law, Not Opposition, Environment Minister Says
Quebec Environment Minister David Heurtel announced Tuesday the province is filing a legal injunction against TransCanada’s proposed Energy East oil pipeline with Quebec’s Superior Court. “Today's motion is very simple…
This is Canada’s weather on climate change, according to the Parliamentary Budget Officer. Any questions?
Thursday, March 3, 2016 It’s amazing how invisible climate change can be – how we feel...
What’s the word for…. ?
English needs a word for the uncomfortable moment you wait for the credit card machine to process, while you pause and wave your hands and you and the clerk smile…
The ongoing legacies of Canadian genocide
Photo by Izithombe The question of whether the horrors committed upon Indigenous peoples by colonial and then Canadian officials can be called genocide often attracts a great deal of controversy.…
What’s That? Bitumen’s Dead?
Elon Musk and Bill Gates may have to settle for runner-up status in the race to develop the breakthrough technology in battery storage. It seems the gold is going instead…
It’s Time to Tell Justin to Shut Down Athabasca.
What's the point of taking the gags off federal government scientists if you don't want to listen to them? What's the point of having federal government scientists at all if…
Romney on Trump: it’s true
…but it’s also pretty bad when the best your party can do is haul out of a crypt, as your voice of accepted wisdom, the clueless vulture capitalist who was…
Canada 100% Renewable Electricity by 2030?
Read this, and think of Energy East pipeline Brad Wall is pushing hard for. Most of the globe’s coal, natural gas and oil investments will ultimately be affected by the…
Jeffrey Simpson – Think Small, Think Slow. Better Yet, Just Don’t Think.
In today's column, the Globe's Jeffrey Simpson wades into the thorny problem of Canada and climate change. His proposals are less than inspiring. In fact, scientists, or 98% of them,…
Jimmy Fallon as Trump
Fallon nails Trump and he's even got a true to life cardboard Chris Christie. He is cardboard, isn't he?Here's Colbert's Super Tuesday wrap up. Terrific.