Jordan analysis for Charter delay applications
R. v. Islam, 2017 ONCJ 335 is a useful case for POA prosecutions. Some take aways include: S11(b) Jordan analysis applies to POA matters. Time runs on Part 1 POA…
2017
Jordan analysis for Charter delay applications
R. v. Islam, 2017 ONCJ 335 is a useful case for POA prosecutions. Some take aways include: S11(b) Jordan analysis applies to POA matters. Time runs on Part 1 POA…
Who’s Laughing at America [And Why]
When T$$$p says people are laughing at America, it’s because he thinks he is America. Here are some ways this is wrong, beyond the obvious. Read some of the King…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Meagan Gilmore examines how an increased minimum wage is good for business. – Hannah Aldridge offers some suggestions to keep a poverty reduction…
Un-Enlightened Trump
Joe Stiglitz knows who Donald Trump is. He’s no Master Builder. To the contrary, he’s a Malevolent Wrecking Ball. He wants to destroy more than American Health Care and the…
Should Andrew Scheer Resign as Con Leader?
It was such a moving photo. Maxime "Mad Max" Bernier raising the arm of Andrew "Smiley" Scheer, at the end of the Con leadership convention.And for a moment it looked…
The Trials of Trump’s Trekkees.
We knew that U.S. President Donald Trump would be a continuing problem as long as his followers remained loyal. They certainly kept mute as mounting evidence of his narcissistic personality…
Drunk Leaders Night Before June 3 Anti-Trudeau/Anti-Muslim Protest in Calgary
I posted this in the last article, but I really do think this deserves it’s own space. WCAI founder Joey De Luca, WCAI “captain” Jesse Wielenga, Sandra Solomon, a woman…
Racists and Antisemites Attending June 4 Event in Calgary
Tomorrow the protests planned for Ottawa, Calgary, and other Canadian cities should all be under way by noon. Though billed as "million Canadian" marches (thereby attempting to co-opt past progressive…
How Oxfam Saw the G7 Leaders
This photo is worth a thousand words.
Waiting
Every season presents a new set of circumstances, a new type of song.
Musical interlude
Tame Impala – The Less I Know The Better
BC Election Post-Mortem: Fifteen Perspectives on the Campaign and its Aftermaths
Photo by BC NDP After sixteen years in power, British Columbia’s Liberal government is teetering on the brink of collapse. On May 31, 2017, the BC NDP inked a deal…
Trump Puts Trudeau Under Scrutiny
Yesterday Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the Paris climate accord. It was a symbolic gesture but one that may have real consequences for the global consensus on fighting…
A Post-Keynesian Summer School – TORONTO – June 23-25, 2017
The Review of Keynesian Economics and the Progressive Economic Forum are sponsoring a “Post-Keynesian Summer School”, to be held on the campus of the University of Toronto, June 23-25, 2017,…
June 2: Let’s start by catching up.
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-the-truth-our-empire-killed-millions-404631.html http://listverse.com/2014/02/04/10-evil-crimes-of-the-british-empire/ http://www.alternet.org/culture/six-most-evil-presidents-us-history http://www.pbs.org/kera/usmexicanwar/aftermath/many_truths.html the ‘heroic war with mexico.’ http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/yves-engler/un-occupation-haiti_b_16070764.html Haiti, under its series of American-appointed dictators was, like Cuba, essentially a slave state with tortures and murders a matter…
Here’s what we’re expecting from an NDP-Green BC government
Friday, June 2, 2017 After a surprising election result culminating in the announcement that the BC NDP and BC Greens will cooperate to bring in a new government, it makes…
20 years ago today
20 years ago today. I totally forgot about it. One of my Daisy colleagues reminded me.I would’ve been good at it, I think.
200 Kms Down, 13 Kms to Go.
In Canada we’re used to icebergs calved off Arctic ice sheets, especially the Greenland Ice Sheet. They’re seen migrating past Newfoundland every year and have a certain reputation for sinking…
Rebel, farewell?
We can only hope. A growing number of advertisers in Canada are feeling the heat for placing ads on The Rebel, a website founded by Ezra Levant as a successor…