SenAntor’s questionable expenses total $140K, audit reveals
Inspired by this headline: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2013/08/09/pol-whats-expected-to-be-in-wallin-audit.html
Life on Peace River threatened by dam
Peace Valley resident Caroline Beam describes life on the river and the myriad wildlife threatened by proposed Site C Dam. “Living as close to the Peace River as a home…
Rehtaeh’s dad speaks
My heart breaks for Mr. Canning, and everyone who loved this young woman.
Tony, Meet Steve
They’re both rabid rightwingers so you would have thought the man hoping to become Australia’s next prime minister, Tony Abbott, would know a thing or two about his Canadian counterpart,…
Evidence for Democracy: A Group Championing Fact-Based Policy
Evidence for Democracy is a new organization in Canada that wants government policy to based on reality. The federal Canadian Conservative government (which openly hates the environment) continually cuts finding…
Poll on the Future of the BC NDP
This is how Cowichan Conversations participants responded. Although not scientific it is a signal to the BC NDP about their lack of relevance and appeal.
Volume, Volume, Volume!
If America is top at one thing, it’s mass incarceration. With but 5% of the global population, the U.S. has 25% of the global prison population. Its prison-industrial complex is…
Just Legalize it Already
I spent a lovely extended weekend in Awenda and fell in love with Penetanguishene through a scenic bike ride. The sun filtered through the trees on either side of the…
Judge in judge alone trial has jurisdiction to reverse a finding of guilt suo sponte
R. v. Griffith, 2013 ONCA 510 holds: On the basis of this court’s decision in R. v. Lessard (1977), 30 C.C.C. (2d) 70, it cannot be doubted that the trial…
Puncturing The Myth That Raising Minimum Wages Will Kill Jobs
The question of minimum wage has been very much a topic of discussion in alternative media of late, and I have written a few posts about the struggle. I am…
Ecuador has amended its constitution to include the Rights of Nature
I was watching the “Nature of Things’ by David Suzuki over the weekend. It was fascinating to find out that both Ecuador (in 2008) and Bolivia (in 2010) passed laws…
PM Harper has set up a sophisticated program to read our email and monitor our online activities.
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Good morning folks. I was looking to do some tidying up and editing posts on the left side under News & Opinion from Home and Abroad. These…
Conservative commentator calls for Muslims to be killed
Wendy Sullivan is a Canadian white supremacist who uses the handles “Girl on the Right” or “Right Girl.” She broadcasts on something called “Brass Balls Radio,” as well. Here is…
Messiah is Back – He’s Here, He’s There, Over There Too
Only in Tennessee – or Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia maybe. A magistrate dealt with the case of a baby boy whose parents could not agree on the child’s last name. Child…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Monday, August 12, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Monday, August 12, 2013: 5 cases to watch: Bulger, Manning .. The Surveillance Speech: A Low Point in…
Toronto’s ‘good-ole boy’ mayor.
You sometimes wonder where Toronto voters parked their brains when they elected Rob Ford as mayor of Toronto. What was understandable throughout that mayoralty campaign was that they wanted to…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – Dan Leger points to the Lac-Mégantic rail explosion as an all-too-vivid example of the intersection of privatized profits and socialized risks: Are we…
6318…WTFWJD
WTFWJD is a sticker that British clergywoman The Rev Alice Goodman has on her fat ride. It’s all in The Telegraph, doncha know?Apparently this is what passes for controversy in…