5938…Go To Church Everyday
Until the Leafs are eliminated. This comes from a church in Brampton. For those of you who do not know where or what Brampton is, well, it ain’t Toronto but…
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Telewarrants not to be granted merely as a convenience
R. v. Lao, 2013 ONCA 285 holds: It will be recalled that s. 487.1 of the Criminal Code permits an application for a search warrant application to be made by…
5937…Happy May Day From SUN TV
Charles Adler in the house. Quality programmation. WFDS
5936…Canada Is Number One In Garbage
Oh yeah. Our Home And Native Land leads the world in per capita creation of garbage according to a study quoted by the CBC. “The Conference Board of Canada gave…
Jack deserves better than ‘Jack’
There are things to expect and things not to not expect from political TV biographies. They are rarely going to be cinematic masterpieces and there will always be those grumbling…
Toronto Board of Health calls for an end to the three-month wait for OHIP eligibility
Following the recommendations of the city’s Medical Officer of Health, the Toronto Board of Health is calling on the Ontario government to end the three-month wait for OHIP coverage for…
Normalizing secrecy
I haven’t commented yet on the story surrounding Tom Mulcair’s request for basic investigation into back-channel information between the Trudeau government and the Supreme Court of Canada – which seems…
Politicians Fiddling While Planet Burns: Scientists Warn 400 PPM Milestone Ahead
From Citizens Climate Lobby Canada: MAY 1, 2013 – “For the first time in 3 million years , the average daily concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, as recorded…
Ontario Saves Experimental Lakes Area
The federal government of Canada is so anti-environment that it hurts everyone on the planet. Their unwavering support for the world-destroying tar sands, refusal to work with other countries to…
The Revolt of the Con Porn Peddlers
Uh oh. It looks as if Stephen "Raincoat" Harper is not only having trouble controlling his base impulses.Controlling his depraved desire to portray Justin Trudeau as a girly man.*Pant* *Pant."He's…
While Exxon Spins on Mayflower Tar Sands Spill Cleanup, Oil Threatens Fishing Lake and Arkansas River
ExxonMobil would sure like you to think that everything is just fine down in Mayflower, Arkansas. That the roughly 5,000 barrel tar sands crude spill was regrettable, but the town…
May Day 2013
Stock markets around the world have made up the losses they incurred during the 2008–09 financial crisis and the workers of the world are paying the price for this recovery.…
Conor Is Safe Now But We Almost Lost Our Buddy: THANK YOU To ALL Who Saved Him!
In mid-April, pursuant to a neurologist’s advice, we started Conor on Lamotrogine, an anti-eleptic drug which is reputed to have benefited many people suffering from seizure activity. Hours after receiving…
Squeaky Wheels: Are more Ontario hospital CEOs likely to publicly air their grievances?
It makes us wonder why so few hospital CEOs are willing to publicly go to bat for their institutions. It’s true that in the past public advocacy was not always…
May 1: Let’s start by being nice….
Yesterday, there was a gatehering of people who represented 50,000 New Brunswickers opposed to shale gas exploration. The story in the Times and Transcript (A4) was unbiased, well-written, and included…
Big Telecom thinks they should get spectrum that was set aside for new entrants to create choice for Canadians
Big Telecom is trying to tell us everything is fine in Canada’s cell phone market. Canadians know different. Big Telecom wants to take scarce wireless assets meant for independent mobile…
The Smoke and Mirrors of Environmental Destruction. . .
It has always been obvious to anyone who pays attention to such matters that the Harper Party has, from its inceptions, orchestrated an all out attack on environmental regulations in…
Shocker
Nobody could have foreseen that the much-ballyhooed Backbench Spring would give way to the Toadying Summer Olympics. But sure enough, the first question from a Con MP nominally challenging his…
5935…The #1 Resto In The World Is Not In Ottawa
You have no idea how amazed/surprised I was when last week it was revealed that your capital has the seventh best street eats on the planet. I was not surprised…