Is Fortress Harper Crumbling?
Thud, thud, thud – that’s the sound of mortally wounded Tories falling from the battlements of Fortress Harper. Duffy, Wallin, Tkachuk, Lebreton, Wright, Perrin, Toews and, by some accounts, they’re…
Two More Books on Kindle, for Those of You Interested
This just in: two more of my books are now available on Kindle. This time they are Green City: People, Nature and Urban Places and The Walkable City: From Haussmann’s…
Politicians in Cowboy Hats: Come Hell or High Water
For a brief history of Stampede fashion, you can read the 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011 round-ups – or last year’s “100 Years of Bad Photo-Ops“ Flood waters…
Rough and rude treatment of travellers by Canada Border Services Agency officers merely reflects the Authoritarian nature of the Harper administration …
Complaints pile up over airport border guards Reports show pattern of rude, disrespectful treatment of travellers by CBSA agents “Dozens of travellers arriving home at Ottawa International Airport have filed…
Troilus and Cressida
I’ve always found Troilus and Cressida a difficult play. The characters all seem jaded, cynical, opportunistic, stuffily sanctimonious, lecherous or simply underhanded. Some are merely unpleasant, others are despicable, reprehensible.…
Harper Gov’ts Fetish with the Crown Has Gone Overboard
Look at these two rank insignias and tell me which of them looks more like it represents Canada: It seems pretty obvious which one represents Canada. Yet for some reason,…
Sleeping black cat
Filed under: art Tagged: Cat, graphite
On Monbiot’s Manifesto
A just world is one in which the labour forces of all nations recognize that they can no longer evade their own problems by demanding the explitation of other people.…
Me on Giambrone
We’re pals, full disclosure, so I am happy to see Adam running. And I meant what I told Global’s Jackson Proskow: the only people who care about most of these…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – George Monbiot rightly challenges the attempt of corporate interests and their political sock-puppets to demonize anybody concerned about our planet’s future: Exotic…
6225…Why I Watch Sponge Bob Square Pants
Thanks Rick Kaulbars on Facebook. WFDS
Wanker of the day
Greg Renouf
Orders for specific medical treatment of federal prisoners proper in limited circumstances
R. v. Taylor, 2013 NLCA 42 holds that, in very narrow circumstances, a Superior Court judge may make an order for specific medical treatment of a prisoner serving a term…
Green Roofs Assist in Flood Prevention
Yesterday Toronto got more rain in two hours than it normally does in a month which meant some serious flooding happened. This got me thinking of a program that Toronto…
In today’s Sun: re-regulate, now
In the coming weeks and months, as Canada attempts to comprehend the cataclysm that struck Lac-Megantic on the weekend, government and citizens will attempt to determine the cause – and…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Tuesday, July 9, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Tuesday, July 9, 2013: Imagine what would happen in Toronto if climate change was real……via Colm Brannigan Judge…
T.O. Storm Journal
I don’t think any city could have handled what we just went through -Mayor Rob Ford The following has been reconstructed from notes I scribbled on the back of my…
The lies that bind.
One of the most serious problems faced by first responders in the Lac-Mégantic disaster was the inability to determine what type of oil was supposedly in the 72 railway tanker…