my role model, joni mitchell
Next week, Toronto’s Luminato arts festival will present “Joni: a Portrait in Song,” various musicians performing and celebrating the work of Joni Mitchell. For months, speculation flew about whether or…
Criminal Code sections relevant to Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
Criminal Code The subject areas that were identified as being dealt with, directly or indirectly, in the Code are: (1) pain control and sedation practices (2) withholding and withdrawal of…
June 15
Dr. T. Douglas KINSELLA, CM, BA, MD, FACP, FRCPC. Like some men, and as was the practice in some families, my brothers and I did not hug my father a…
Chief Justice McLachlin on mental illness and the law
Skirting carefully around a contentious federal government policy, she says that the legal regime used to decide the fate of violent, mentally ill offenders has worked smoothly and “served us…
Not A Big Speaker From A Big Country
When Stephen Harper steps out on the world stage, he never fails to offend. Last week, he spoke before the Mother of all Parliaments. He praised David Cameron and Margaret…
Chinese Academy Of Sciences Issues A Statement; Heartland Institute Issues A Grovelling Apology
First, from the CAS site: The Chinese translation of the “Climate Change Reconsidered—NIPCC Report” was organized by the Information Center for Global Change Studies, Scientific Information Center for Resources and…
Saturday The Movies
Great video from a BBC documentary:
Stephen Harper and the Fatal Grip of the Duffinator
I'm sure historians will not fail to note that they were a REALLY odd couple.The jolly former journalist and the cold sinister leader of the Con mob.As they struggle to…
Yes Mildred, The Government Is Spying On You!
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes- Political Blogger Many of you have heard of how the Americans spy on their own citizens. Certainly you have heard about the 29 year old CIA computer…
U.S. ‘red line’ on Syrian chemical weapons – a pretext for arming opposition fighters
The Obama administration claims that the Syrian al-Assad regime has crossed a “red line” by using chemical weapons repeatedly over the past year. Obama has gone ahead and authorized the…
6144…Honey Boo-Boo Back In July
Pretend you don’t know who she is.She, of course, is Honey Boo-Boo, the star of TLC’s number one show, Here Comes Honey Boo Boo, a show that gets 2.3 million…
Musical interlude
Deepest Blue – Deepest Blue
6143…Regina NDPers Baby Duffy Doppleganger
Dya think while Dr. Marc Spooner, University of Regina prof and challenger to Ralph Goodale last time out, was campaigning Senator Mike Duffy, Kanata-PEI, may have whipped out to the…
6142…Wallin Splains All To CBC
See the problem, the reason, the Senator from Saskatchewan cheated on her expense thingys is coz, as she told CBC’s The National, “There’s a lot of paperwork particularly in government,…
Friday night blues blogging
Good evening. This is the Heritage Blues Orchestra with Get Right Church. This is what happens when you let Jeff Beck into the White House. It’s a slow instrumental called…
12 Reasons the Harper Government Doesn’t Punish People Who Steal Elections
That’s 12 reasons apart from the fact that under Harper, the Conservative Party itself successfully attempted to steal the 2006 election by deliberately exceeding its spending limit and laundering the…
Rest Stops : Vanishing Relics of the American Roadside – Ryann Ford
Rest Stops : Vanishing Relics of the American RoadsideLiterally, before our eyes, rest stops are vanishing from the landscapes of America. All over the country, rest areas are losing the…
Nova Scotians condemn RCMP repression of anti-fracking protesters
By: Council of Canadians | Press Release HALIFAX, NS, June 14, 2013 – Representatives of several- Halifax-based environmental, social justice and cultural groups are condemning the heavy-handed actions of the…