Phobia This! Phobia That!
I am coming to agree with my daughter that I deserve the sobriquet Grumpy. Case in point was seeing the entry below on a Facebook entry: How many homophobes does…
Seven years for shooting at police in Kimmirut
R v Utye 2013 NUCJ 14: On July 28, 2012, the early morning peace and tranquility of Kimmirut was shattered by the sound of gunfire. Two members of the RCMP…
Congrats to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge
…better known as Prince William and Kate Middleton, on their new arrival (still unnamed, they let it be known in their brief chat with the press they hadn’t decided on…
An honourable thing to do
Guys like Morgan rarely get kudos for doing the right thing, so I say: kudos for doing the right thing. Nice to see that it still occasionally happens in Harper’s…
More On The E.I Whistleblower
The other day I wrote a post on Sylvie Therrien, the government employee suspended because she leaked documents that revealed federal investigators were told to find $485,000 of Employment Insurance…
Canada’s embarassing green jobs record
Why is Canada missing out on tens of thousands of green jobs and tens of billions of dollars in economic development? Clean tech is among the globe’s fastest growing and…
Big Telecom Against Canada – Who will win?
Big Telecom is at it again – Telus is now actually threatening the government with legal action if they follow through on their commitment to stop the Big Three cell…
The colonization of land by life pushed back in time
A recent story on Science Daily made me stop and read with fascination. It’s about the discovery of fossils that showed life colonized land more than two billion years ago.…
The Carefully Engineered Ascendancy of Public Stupidity
Maybe people who had survived the Great Depression and World War II were a little more wary, spent a little more time looking over their shoulders. The postwar years gave…
His Majesty, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom, Canada and His other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith: we care
Crazed republicans remind me of crazed atheists: they are more preoccupied with saying they dislike/disbelieve than those who actually do like/believe in God or Her Majesty or whatever. I mean,…
Venezuela abruptly ends talks with U.S. – flatly rejects ‘gringo aggression’ and ‘meddling’
On July 20, Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, announced that rapprochement talks with the U.S. that began in June were at an end. The announcement followed controversial human rights-related remarks by…
IKEA’s (Sad) Spin Reply to My Boycott Letter
Solidarity means an attack on one is an offense to all! So if you have sent your letter to IKEA explaining why you are boycotting them for locking out their…
Further to the Local Food Movement
The New York Times has a nice story about sustainability at McGill and elsewhere.
Canadians oppose Harper’s dictatorship-style plan to gut the CBC
According to a new Nanos poll, 81% of Canadians oppose Stephen Harper’s dictatorship-style plan to seize control of the CBC and gut its editorial independence. The post Canadians oppose Harper’s…
No Use Suing Over Spilled Wine, Eh?
This one’s going to pull at your heartstrings. It concerns an overlooked group of victims of Hurricane Sandy who may have suffered enormous losses into the hundreds of thousands or…
The Feral Hogs of High Finance
The Toronto Star’s Richard Gwyn chronicles how the masters of high finance have fallen low. Today the status of the professions of banking and of financial management is nearer to…