The Link Between Good Food & Good Health
It’s TED Talk Thursday on 350orbust, and I’m reposting this talk from TEDx Austin 2011. I’m presenting about GMO/GE foods at a regional diabetes conference this week, and as part…
Inquiring Minds? You don’t want to know. #nlpoli
Denial and evasion, wrote Andrew Coyne last week, are only making worse three political scandals. He’s referring to Toronto Mayor Rob Ford and allegations of substance abuse, Prime Minister Stephen…
Twenty Tips for Articling Students
In today`s post at SlawTips, I offer my top twenty tips for the new crop of articling students that is now beginning to arrive in the law offices of the…
Stephen Harper’s Ghastly Con Cabaret Show
Well now we know how Stephen Harper was feeling only a few hours before he won his precious majority.How he turned a mike check into a cabaret act, when he…
Wait for it
Has anyone else been following xkcd: Time?This xkcd cartoon has been changing by one frame an hour since the end of March, and has now posted more than 2000 pictures…
Of the Greens and the Gutless
Those who know me know that I want nothing more than for the Green Party to succeed, but this objective is imperilled if the voting public does not think of…
The way the cookie crumbled: Fred Horne fires Stephen Lockwood, entire AHS board
The former Alberta Health Services Board, fired yesterday by Health Minister Fred Horne, as seen by the 99 top executives of the provincial health care agency. Actual AHS board members…
Spies Without Borders I: Using Domestic Networks to Spy on the World
The following article is cross-posted with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), and was co-authored by Tamir Israel, Staff Lawyer at CIPPIC and Katitza Rodriguez, EFF International Rights Director. The article…
Nova Scotia Extends Health Care Coverage for Reassignment Surgery
After originally saying that it would not fund genital reassignment surgery, the Nova Scotia government has now said that it would extend health care funding coverage for the procedure. Health…
So What’s Happening in Edmonton For Picking Our Next Mayor?
So I have received information on a poll done on preferred candidates for the Edmonton Mayoralty race this October. This data is interesting as a provocation to conversation - not…
So What’s Happening in Edmonton For Picking Our Next Mayor?
So I have received information on a poll done on preferred candidates for the Edmonton Mayoralty race this October. This data is interesting as a provocation to conversation – not…
6138…Help For Homeless In Conn
Not by Cons. Two different kettles of fish. Of course we all know that the Conservatives consider being homeless a crime. In fact in B.C. and Ontario it is a…
Toronto Talk Radio 640 AM Host Calls Ontario NDP Leader Horvath A ‘Whore’ On Morning Talk Show
Here’s the transcript, via this blog: Lou Schizas: Just to get back to our previous quick quotes on Andrea Horwath. I think whore is the operative syllable there. John Oakley:…
The impressionist
I think I’ll go with the take of a little birdie who sent me a note on this…just proves that Harper has been making a mockery of the Conservative party:)…
The impressionist
I think I'll go with the take of a little birdie who sent me a note on this...just proves that Harper has been making a mockery of the Conservative party:)Hyuk,…
The impressionist
I think I’ll go with the take of a little birdie who sent me a note on this…just proves that Harper has been making a mockery of the Conservative party:)…
Why Anita And All Other Women Deserve A Hug!
Girl Power! Women United! Oh wait…I should watch out, because there could be a feminist reading who just got really mad about a straight white male chanting a slogan they…
Adult Assembly Required: The Leader And The Boss
For all of you rednecks who voted Harper into power, wait…redneck really isn’t a nice term to use, maybe all of you sheep? No…it is more like, all of you…
Harper’s Empire 3.0
Have you ever wondered why restaurants, either fast-food or sit down, spend so much money telling you to be hungry and choose them as your provider of food? Step back…