And despite conventional advice to eat less fat, weight loss was greatest among people who ate more yogurt and nuts, including peanut butter, over each four-year period. via nytimes.com An…
St. John’s lawyer Averill Baker is pissed that the Crown prosecutor is trying to remove her from a case because she represented the victim in the savage beating her current…
Valesco v. North York Chevrolet Oldsmobile Ltd., 2011 ONCA 522 deals with diligence and discoverability for a limitation period. A period runs from the date a claim is discovered and that the earlier…
Inspired by this story: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/07/20/pol-kenney-immigration-visas.html
So the Ontario Liberals want the coming provincial election to be about ethical issues such as women’s reproductive rights. Now I get the strategy. Distraught with their free falling in…
Hundreds of Canadian workers should not be left in the lurch by the sudden closing of call centres in Trois-Rivières, Laval, and Oshawa. According to an on-line news article in…
Saskatchewan premier Brad Wall has expressed surprise at Dalton McGuinty's concern about tax dollars subsidizing the oil patch. As this article puts it: Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall said he was…
By Stuart Mackinnon, Vancouver Courier July 20, 2011 8:02 AM To the editor: Re: "Central Park: Thigh high," July 13. The "meadow look" is just a euphemism for budget cuts…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Jeffrey Simpson has a bit of trouble recognizing that inequality applies at all rungs of the income ladder, not merely as a matter of…
In the two years since Ontario officially joined the ranks of the ‘have-not’ provinces, the volume of equalization payments received has jumped 534%. That’s right – 534%. From the first…
From CBC.ca: Canada’s energy ministers ended two days of annual talks Tuesday in the Kananaskis resort in the Alberta Rockies announcing they have agreed to work together on opening up…
incandescent.png The examples of conservative misinformation—devoutly believed by followers, repeatedly asserted by ideological leaders and media outlets—are growing too numerous to c...
How conveeeenient. Despite vigorous opposition from the Crown and the Ottawa Police, the Ottawa Citizen wins a court ruling—a judge orders the release of a video of yet more brutality…
People might remember there was a RECENT time, when Canada would host international delegations who wanted to come and see our enviable prison system and policies. The statistics didn't lie,…
Hot enough for ya? For you non-metric types, that 38C is an even 100F. I think I speak for most of my fellow Canadians when I say, “WTF?” I suppose…
A friend reminded me of this today – are we really surprised at Hudak’s dodgy behaviour this week? “Like his rhetoric, Hudak’s delivery often seems calculated and over-rehearsed. Worse, he’s…
Now this is interesting ... the "Canadian Transit Company," which sounds like a coalition of the urban public transit providers in Canada but is in fact the Canadian face of…
From the Ottawa Citizen: “There’s nothing wrong with being pro-choice or pro-life, both are honourable positions. What is wrong is a potential premier dodging the issue. That’s gutless and misleading…
Last Wednesday afternoon GC and I stopped by the Baseline Cowboys’ base camp at 1605 Baseline Road, and gave them an antique Mr. Peanut jar filled with peanuts. They gave…
