How Do You Like Your Odds?
A decade ago, Britain’s Astronomer Royal, cosmologist Martin Rees, wrote “Our Final Hour, A Scientist’s Warning: How Terror, Error, and Environmental Disaster Threaten Humankind’s Future In This Century – On…
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Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau fights back with ‘Channel Change’ TV ad
Canadians are fair people. They understand that 40-somethings just elected to new, massively challenging leadership roles need time to continue to grow and do their jobs. In response to Trudeau’s…
Calgary Politicians Paid Off By Developers to Vote The Right Way
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes- Political Blogger Global TV has caught Calgary developer Cal Wenzel speaking to a large group of developers/builders with the goal of electing Councillors that will ‘Vote the…
5908…War On Terror Is A War On You
Seriously. Last year, 2012, according to something I read in The New York Times, 17 people in the States died in terror attacks. 33,000 were shot to death. Prioritize. WFDS
Liberals Respond Justin Time
When the Conservatives launched attack ads against Stephane Dion in January 2007, it took the Liberal Party three months to respond. Never again, they vowed. Next time we’ll fight back!…
5907…Rob Ford Make This Happen
He is the mayor of Tronna. Man of the people. Leaf fan. Got this from K-Rock Kingston. Now that the Maple Leafs have clinched a playoff spot.. there is a…
Boston Marathon Violence
Since the Boston Marathon Violence I have been feeling very depressed. What kind of morons brainwashed these two brothers and what did they achieve? They killed three innocent people and…
5906…Imagine: Harper Is Out Of Step
This is all over Facebook. My goodness, what a partisan bye atch, eh? WFDS
Kumbaya Counter-Terrorism
One of the reasons I keep blogging is that the comments section here tends to breed meaningful discussion rather than the “no you’re Hitler” type of debate you see on…
Ontario Liberals On The Verge of Forcing An Election
To make a minority government work, the party in power needs the support of enough members of parliament to pass confidence-vote legislation like the budget. This can be done on…
"This Criminal Code is not holy book"
A Montreal man accused of plotting a terrorist attack against a VIA Rail passenger train denounced the Canadian Criminal Code in a Toronto courtroom Wednesday during his second court appearance.…
Thoughts on the new Liberal/Justin Trudeau ads
As mentioned earlier, the Liberal Party of Canada this morning released two new ads featuring Justin Trudeau that will be running on television and online, one in English and one…
The Liberal Party vs the Harper Party, can you tell the Difference. . . . ?
It has become commonplace among those on the left of centre to lump the contemporary Liberal Party of Canada in with the Conservative Party. And this tendency is clearly rooted…
Stressed at Work? Add a Daily Dose of Green
The modern workday pose – fingers on keyboard, slight slouch, glassy eyes fixed on glowing screen, bathed in unnatural light – can drain vitality, happiness and creativity. Designed to maximize…
April 23: Let’s look in a mirror…..
…because there’s nothing much in today’s Times and Tribune. Mostly, it’s trivia, village chatter and smiling people holding up giant cheques for worthy causes. The editorial is about (Surprise!) how…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – George Monbiot discusses the fallout from decades of corporate-controlled governments abdicating their responsibility to consider the public interest: In other ages, states sought…
Would the PCs slash health spending even further?
The Ontario PCs have released a new video with finance critic Peter Shurman suggesting the Liberals cannot balance their budget on schedule by restraining health care to 2 per cent…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Wednesday, April 24, 2013: U.S. sues Lance Armstrong OHRT: Never call an employee a “crack head”! – Lexology…
A Very Funny Descendant of Zola: Marina Lewycka’s Novel about Quants, Commies and Community
Seems I spoke too soon a bit ago when I asked, rather rhetorically, in my book blog: where is a current novel to compare with Zola’s The Kill when it…