According Vladimir Putin it is America. “Veteran Kremlin-watcher Fyodor Lukyanov last month commented that letting Snowden into Russia would be like “turning a small headache into a major migraine.’’As Lukyanov…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Matthew Yglesias sums up the effects of four decades of U.S. union-busting, and points out how the supposed benefit from pointing a fire…
I spent some time today reviewing in detail the Harper Government’s factum arguments that they are putting to the Supreme Court of Canada with respect to the subject of Senate…
Backwoods, western Alberta. Here’s a montage of images taken from one of those motion-sensing game cameras hunters sometimes use to scout game. It’s pretty funny.
….dumb, dumber…I called a meeting of the current events club for the same night Maude Barlow was speaking at the Capitol Theatre. Moving is so confusing. And I still haven’t…
Heading back to Tee Dot shortly. Can’t load the Palma Violets/Hot Nasties video. Until I figure out how to do so, this snapshot will have to suffice. Who’s the old…
Proof that the Boiling Frog Syndrome is as powerful as ever was plentiful from the release, yesterday, of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s report on the state of climate…
R. v. Puddicombe, 2013 ONCA 506 deals with obiter from the Supreme Court of Canada: R. v. Henry instructs that some obiter from the Supreme Court of Canada must be…
Yet it is not an election issue. The Ottawa Citizen had a story today about how since that nefarious book became more nefarious they have been summoned to many handcuffed…
Read Kevin Logan’s analysis of the Lac-Mégantic train disaster. Logan provides a comprehensive breakdown of the facts, and where the mainstream media lost sight of the truth. Using a series…
You aren’t middle class if you own a cottage. Remember that. If I need to single-handedly reboot the Occupy Movement for this one, I’ll do it, I tell ya :…
“If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who creates the darkness.” — Monseigneur Bienvenu…
Is he just really bad at figuring out where his legal primary residence is? Is Duffy a victim of Harper PMO corruption? Seems like a willing victim until just recently.
It looks like that the ‘cold war’ is slowly creeping back. Obama has snubbed Putin by cancelling his meeting with Putin in September. It looks that history does repeat itself.…
I believe the sterotype is that as we get older, our views become more entrenched and conservative. In my own life, I have found the opposite to be true. When…
He is dancing in the rain. 🙂
The sustainable energy market consistently needs to prove its worth despite the obvious benefits, whats worse is that the industry as a whole is up against the subsidized fossil fuel…
Aaron Sorkin’s The Newsroom is dealing with the topic of Occupy Wall Street, and while I loved the Occupy Movement, I’m forced to admit that Sorkin makes some pretty good…
Next year marks the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of World War One. There’s no sign of any commemorations or other events to mark the occasion, but undoubtedly there will…
…this. Turns out Metrolinx did take the T.O. City Council vote to cancel the Scarborough LRT seriously. They’re basically telling council that they will suspend work on the project until…
