5898…Guns Versus Terrorists
All rational beings with access to the ‘net know that empirically speaking guns cause far more damage in the US of A than terrorism does. To the power of. Yet…
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5897…Stephen Harper Is A Bully
Pretty obvious that our beloved Prime Minister Stephen Harper is a bully. Nothing proves it more than his stupid yet, as Warren Kinsella pointed out in the Suns yesterday, effective…
5896…Government Sanctioned F-Bomb Broadcast
Len Berman from Len Berman’s That’s Sports picks up the story: David Ortiz of the Red Sox addressed the crowd before Saturday’s game in Boston. He went uncensored proclaiming loudly…
Setting aside default judgment
Traditionally setting aside a default judgment has required fulfilling a three-part test. The Defendant must establish: (1) there was a reasonable explanation for the failure to file the Statement of…
5895…Here’s Johnny!
Sorry I mean Jack. As in Jack Nicholson. 76 candles on his cake today. WFDS
This Earth Day, Let’s Focus On Saving Humans
It’s a snowy and cold Earth Day morning in northwestern Ontario. On this Earth Day, Joe Romm over at Think Progress muses about renaming Earth Day – after all, it’s…
Looking for a CBC champion in Labrador
FRIENDS has launched a new website encouraging by-election voters to elect a champion of the CBC in Labrador.
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Paul Adams rightly points out that there’s no inherent value in centrism merely for the sake of centrism – especially when the spectrum…
Crowley’s Red Hot Labour Market
Brian Lee Crowley’s latest column shows he’s a glass-half-full kinda guy. We shouldn’t be worried about unemployment because a) it’s old-fashioned, b) Boomers had it worse (and now they’re getting…
Algae-Powered Building Opens This Week
Algae can be used for all sorts of wonderful things from cleaning up oil to producing energy. Architects in Hamburg have built a building that uses algae to power the…
The Conservative’s Justin Problem
If you’ve been living under a rock for the past week, Justin Trudeau was elected leader of the federal Liberal Party. Not that big of a surprise really, but at…
Scrutinizing the NDP
I am well past the age where I expect very much from our politicians, especially given the current level of disengagement among the Canadian electorate; because of that disengagement, the…
How not to sell the Oil Sands
If you haven’t read Tzeporah Berman’s Daily Kos piece – My Government Doesn’t Believe in Climate Change – go check it out. It’s amazing to see how out of sync,…
How not to sell the Oil Sands
If you haven’t read Tzeporah Berman’s Daily Kos piece – My Government Doesn’t Believe in Climate Change – go check it out. It’s amazing to see how out of sync,…
In today’s Hill Times: is the federal NDP doomed?
Quote: “There’s very little vote that I can see that will bleed from Harper to Trudeau. But, from Mulcair to Trudeau, there will be plenty of voters shifting allegiance. The…
earth day 2013: one million comments against the keystone xl pipeline
Nancy Zorn’s Direct Action To mark Earth Day 2013, I hope you will submit a comment to the US State Department opposing the Keystone XL Pipeline. The form is properly…
earth day 2013: one million comments against the keystone xl pipeline
Nancy Zorn’s Direct Action To mark Earth Day 2013, I hope you will submit a comment to the US State Department opposing the Keystone XL Pipeline. The form is properly…
Wedding, penis, knitting and fine arts
I wrote down all my thoughts about my visit to Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, and it was a big fat mess of contradictions, so I will continue to think on it…