Robocall Fraud Coming Home to Roost on the Harper Government?
Looks like the boy the Conservative Party threw under the bus on the Guelph Robocall scandal is not going quietly into the night. Michael Sona spoke out recently in a…
Robocall Fraud Coming Home to Roost on the Harper Government?
Looks like the boy the Conservative Party threw under the bus on the Guelph Robocall scandal is not going quietly into the night. Michael Sona spoke out recently in a…
Robocall Fraud Coming Home to Roost on the Harper Government?
Looks like the boy the Conservative Party threw under the bus on the Guelph Robocall scandal is not going quietly into the night. Michael Sona spoke out recently in a…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Frances Russell discusses the inevitable collateral damage to our planet from the Cons’ war on science: Over the past 200 years, Canadians built…
Deep Conspiracy: Naomi Wolf on That Snowden Guy
As I think I’ve said here before, why should anybody be surprised that various branches of US intelligence has been following us. They’ve done it for a long time, as…
The Calgary Herald Discovers the Polar Jet Stream
It’s a newspaper so far right that, to steal a line from Lawrence Martin, it should be delivered in a holster. A couple of weeks ago the Calgary Herald scribes…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Wednesday, June 26, 2013: Tips Tuesday Did Alito roll his eyes during Ginsburg dissent? European court advised to…
Safer Communities and Neighbourhoods Act and municipal politics #nlpoli
You mean the Hell’s Angels won’t be deterred by a committee of people telling Doc O’Keefe what they think he should do? -srbp-
Privately-developed London mental health hospitals justified by massive “risk” calculations
Evaluating value-for-money on a privatized public infrastructure project has always been a bit of a mugs game. A value-for-money (VFM) assessment is produced every time the province engages the private…
Car-Addicted LA is Getting on the Bike-Train
Los Angeles is known to be a car-addled and car-addicted place but not for much longer. They have consciously set out to make their city more pedestrian and bike friendly.…
On Corporate Welfare
David Lewis, the one-time head of the federal NDP and father of Stephen Lewis, used the phrase corporate welfare bums in his 1972 federal election campaign to describe the various…
Economic Obsessions
Those of us who are appalled by the Harper government have taken some hope for the future as we have watched the PMO implode. But Edward Greenspon warns that, when…
The delayed masquerade of the Tories.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper has been saved by the rain on the plain. With Calgary recovering from serious flood conditions, it is no time for a Conservative Convention. Stephen Harper…
Australia’s Rudd returns to power.
Teddy here. ABC (Australia) is reporting the following:http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-06-26/live-blog-labor-leadership/4782312Kevin Rudd has defeated sitting Prime Minister Julia Gillard to return as Prime Minister and Labor leader. The problem has been one of…
Please welcome a new Barry Ontario Prog Blog affiliate
I love the name – Babel-on-the-Bay
If on a Summer’s Day, a Fridgularity
You are reading a blog posting about Mark A. Rayner’s most recent book, The Fridgularity. You had been hoping to find a funny picture, and maybe a microfiction that played…
A Note On Ontario Defamation Law
…re defamation on-line: Single Publication Rule Rejected in Ontario The Court rejected the defendants’ argument that the American “single publication rule” for mass publications should apply. This rule holds that…
Will he bring more than guesses? #nlpoli
Corporate research Associates president Don Mills is in St. John’s on Wednesday to speak to the Board of Trade. He’s already teased up his visit with a news release on…
User-pay disaster relief? A suddenly forgotten idea that needs to stay that way!
Canadian Forces soldiers piled sandbags as the water rose in Medicine Hat last weekend. CBC photo. Below: Chris Alexander, Parliamentary Secretary to the federal Defence Minister; CBC broadcaster Anna Maria…