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Who I had dinner with tonight
Nice guy. American, I think. There was a “John” Chrétien guy there, too, as I recall. Quite the characters.
Study Reveals 30 Toxic Chemicals at High Levels at Exxon Arkansas Tar Sands Pipeline Spill Site
An independent study co-published by the Faulkner County Citizens Advisory Group and Global Community Monitor reveals that, in the aftermath of ExxonMobil’s Pegasus tar sands pipeline spill of over 500,000…
Some Islamophobic new atheists as bad as Fox News on steroids
Atheist “fundamentalists” whose very existence seems predicated on their non-belief in God can be as extremist and narrow minded as the worst religious prig. They’re fixated, the way many extremists…
Former costs grid of no relevance to solicitor client assessments with proper retainers
Bales Beall LLP v. Fingrut, 2013 ONCA 266 provides: Second, the motion judge held that the assessment officer erred by treating the former costs grid as the benchmark for setting…
NOT for the people
In an 1830 speech, Massachusetts Senator Daniel Webster said that government should be “Made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.” British Columbia’s present ruling…
war resister and peace activist kim rivera sentenced to 14 months in military prison
From the War Resisters Support Campaign: Iraq War Resister Kimberly Rivera sentenced to 14 months in military prison after deportation by Harper government On Monday afternoon, during a court-martial hearing…
5929…Tim Hudak Chokes Again
It is nice that there are some things in this life that one can rely upon. Thanks Tim Hudak! WFDS
Banana-oil Republic of Harperland. . . . .
We in the leftist blogging community have become something like forensic auditors of the slow debasement of democratic values under the HarperCon cabal. It seems that each week we have…
More Much-Deserved Mockery
From the folks at Canadians Rallying To Unseat Harper: Recommend this Post
More Much-Deserved Mockery
From the folks at Canadians Rallying To Unseat Harper: Recommend this Post
5928…David Frum On Che Guevera
The sorta Canadian, he is from Niagara Falls, right down on Bridge Street, and he does live in the States, making him sorta American too, makes a big funny in…
5927…First Gay Male Pro Athlete Comes Out
Sure there have been a lot of gay women athletes, the most recent to come out being the best woman player of this era, Britney Griner ex of Baylor and…
Charles King, RIP
Charles and I were occasionally on different sides during the Liberal Party’s tribal wars. Throughout all of that, Charles was unfailingly decent, and always a gentleman, too. I was very…
Faster Drilling, Diminishing Returns in Shale Plays Nationwide?
Today’s shale gas boom has brought a surge of drilling across the US, driving natural gas prices to historic lows over the past couple of years. But, according to David…
Revisiting The Past
In this blog, I try as hard as possible not to repeat myself. True, that is often a difficult objective to achieve when, with the same fascination that train wrecks…
Change the System, Not the Climate
The capitalist system has exploited and abused nature, pushing the planet to its limits, so much so that the system has accelerated dangerous and fundamental changes in the climate. Today,…
Mystery man
Check this out: just got back from the cabin, which I have opened up for the first time this year. In the Fall, I’d put up one of those game…
Gagnon: Rising drug costs unsustainable — not Medicare
Dr. Marc Andre Gagnon says that while Medicare is sustainable, rising drug costs are not. A leading expert on pharmaceutical policy in Canada, Carleton University’s Gagnon spoke Saturday at the…