Licensing cyclists is not the answer
Listen up, my broke and miserly city: licensing cyclists is not the answer. Licensing cyclists will not prevent the highly unfortunate accident that took place yesterday, in which a pedestrian…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Barbara Yaffe points out that the Council on Hemispheric Affairs seems to have a much better idea what Canada needs out of a…
Are Climate Models Giving Us a False Sense of Security?
Climate models, those vast computer simulations, seem to prompt inevitable criticism from climate change skeptics and the fossil fuel industry and its paid political pals. It's easy to attack these…
The revolution will not be Canadized
freestyle3.jpg The other day I walked into a Mexican restaurant on Cote des Neiges. It was as big as a hallway and on its walls hung pictures of Aztec temples…
New column day
Here, on the Saskatchewan Chamber of Commerce's distraction tactics for this fall's provincial election.For more reading...- A couple of greatest hits from the Saskatchewan Chamber of Commerce in its complete…
Rupert Murdoch targeted families of war dead
One time NOTW editor Rebekah Brooks and papa MurdochNews of Rupert Murdoch's News of the World's manipulation of a missing 13-year-old girls cell phone to provide false hope to the…
A New Anti-Hudak Ad
Putting a side for the moment my concern about critical thinking skills, I must confess to deriving considerable pleasure out of the latest ad calling into question Tim Hudak's plans…
Wish i hadn’t just found these LASSies…
sounds like the one place i wouldn't have minded marching on the weekend. will have to watch for them next year...No Photo Ops, With the Fucking Cops An anti-police sign…
Developing Critical Thinking Skills – Travelling A Road That Never Ends
Even though I consider myself reasonably-well-educated and reasonably well-read, one truth I have come to realize is that the journey toward critical thinking never ends – it is always a…
handwriting is history
One might consider handwriting as a technology — a way to make letters — and conclude that the way of making them is of little moment. But handwriting is bound…
Bringing cheer into the gloom
This was good to see: The town was not on the official royal itinerary, but the royal couple made a special stop with the hope of bringing much-needed cheer to…
Israeli checkpoints kill women in childbirth, says new study…
from The Electronic Intifada, 6 July 2011 An infant is transferred into an ambulance at Qalandiya checkpoint between Ramallah and East Jerusalem; Palestinian ambulances are prevented from freedom of travel.…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for July 7, 2011
Here are today's leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter:Hamas arrests male hairdresser for Gaza woman's haircut (Jon Donnison/BBC) - http://goo.gl/RXz9QNYC readies for start of gay marriage law -…
Toronto City Councilor Records March, Calls For Toronto Pride Defunding (the continuing saga)
Borrowing a page from “Porno” Peter LaBarbera, Toronto city councilor Giorgio “Creepy” Mammoliti made it a point to film Saturday’s Dyke March during Toronto Pride Week festivities, in hopes of…
The Saga Of A Prodigal Son
Bob Hepburn argues, in today's Toronto Star, that Conrad Black should be stripped of his Order of Canada: Strangely though, the advisory council that oversees the Order of Canada once…
Business As Usual Is Over: Value Change Required For Survival
Today’s blog posting was initially posted on 350orbust on June 30, 2010: Chief Oren Lyons said, when speaking about Climate Change at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues…
Letter to Supporters: This is what we’ve been waiting for
When Stop The Meter kicked off in the fall, who would have thought we’d come this far? With your help our historic Stop The Meter campaign pressured all of the…
Mostly competent government
It's been almost exactly a year since then Industry Minister Tony Clement announced that the census long form would no longer be mandatory. Among the lies he told us at…
Ontario
Flew to Toronto on Monday morning, and slept along the way, still only giving me a few hours of sleep, as I was wound up and doing chores I hadn’t…