Edmond Croteau and the Battle of Vimy Ridge
This week we mark 100 years since the Battle of Vimy Ridge. Canadian soldiers played a defining role the famous First World War battle, which took place from April 9…
2017
Trump, Syria, and Chemical Weapons: What We Know, What We Don’t, and the Dangers Ahead
Photo by Sultain Kitaz/REUTERS/Newscom Let’s start with what we don’t know. Experts remain uncertain what chemical(s) were involved in the horrific chemical attack, almost certainly from the air, on the…
Bolivia UN Envoy on Syria Attack: ‘History Teaches Us’ US Lies to Justify Wars
Photo by the United Nations “Now the U.S. believe that they are investigators, they are attorneys, judges and they are the executioners,” the Bolivian ambassador said. Lambasting the United States’…
Sen. Lindsey Graham calls for up to 7,000 American troops in Syria to take down Assad
Photo by Gage Skidmore Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) called Friday for between 5,000 and 7,000 American ground troops to be moved to Syria in an effort to take down the…
Dmitry Medvedev on US airstrikes on Syria: “On the verge of a military clash with Russia”
Responding to the US airstrikes on Syria, Russian PM Dmitry Medvedev declared in a Facebook post: “On the verge of a military clash with Russia”. Justifying the airstrikes, PM Justin…
Pedalling against Parkinson’s again
You don’t have to join me. You can just donate. I’m riding the Gatineau Parkway ‘A’ Loop four times — maybe five — to raise money for the University of…
The Whole Gay Thing
Recently Brad Trost and Jason Kenney made some troubling comments about the whole gay thing and the progressives just won’t let it go. Trost, a “full spectrum” conservative, believes in…
The Return of Stuff Happens, week 12: BULLETIN: Trump does right thing; world reacts with shock
I guess it was bound to happen — Donald Trump actually did the right thing this week. I never thought we would see the day, but as the saying goes,…
WiFi hysteria again
Every so often, old crackpot ideas, hoaxes, cons and plainly silly pseudoscience resurface online under the guise of Trump-like alternate fact. Scary stories about chemicals in your food, fake health…
Expert Evidence Voir Dire Primer
A trial judge must determine on a voir dire whether the individual is qualified as an expert, and if so, what the "nature and scope of the proposed expert evidence"…
Expert Evidence Voir Dire Primer
A trial judge must determine on a voir dire whether the individual is qualified as an expert, and if so, what the "nature and scope of the proposed expert evidence"…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Abi Wilkinson writes about the importance of making social benefits universal in order to reflect a sense of shared interests and purpose:…
Leadership 2017 Links
The latest from the federal NDP’s leadership campaign… – Marie-Danielle Smith reports that Jagmeet Singh is laying the groundwork to join the race. And Steve Paikin offers his take as…
April 9: Extra – and change of pace.
Canada is seeing a celebration of the battle of Vimy Ridge, and how it created a Canadian nation. The Brunswick News has carried at least six, gushing stories about it…
100 years ago today: Vimy
My son is at Vimy today with his St Mike’s classmates – and I know he will always remember the significance of it. More than 3,500 Canadians killed, more than…
You think Trump got it right in Syria?
There were pictures in North American papers the other day of Trump and his key advisers in a small room at his Florida resort. The captions explained that they were…
Quite A Pair
Donald Trump desperately needs a “win.” His attack on a Syrian airfield was supposed to be one — but the airfield was operating on the next day. On Friday, his…
Printemps
I may have said this before but it bears repeating… I once had a problem photographing something in terms of composition, or maybe it was just attitude, in any case,…
Missiles Galore But Less Than Meets the Eye
The signs are everywhere announcing that this week’s American cruise missile attack on a backwater Syrian airbase was pure Kabuki theatre, an event in which spectacle eclipsed any notion of…
Deposits and Unconscionabilty
Redstone Enterprises Ltd. v. Simple Technology Inc., 2017 ONCA 282: Deposits are commonplace in the operation of the market, especially for larger assets such as residential and commercial real estate.…