Happy CANADA Day!
NOT Dominion Day! Today is to celebrate the birthday of a great (though currently politically misguided) and independent country. While our Constitution may refer to the land as a “Dominion”,…
Happy Canada Day
Canada Day celebrates the anniversary of the founding of Canada on July 1, 1867 as an independent Kingdom being part of the British Empire. It is, in a very real…
Happy Canada/Moving Day: Maybe a Month from Now We’ll Have Moved Too!
In the Rest of Canada, this is the major national holiday, and while there will be some festivities in Quebec, the big thing in Montreal is moving. Most leases run…
Ten indisputable facts about Canada (Part Two: Culture)
To commemorate Canada Day, I decided it would be useful to clear up some common myths people have about Canada and its culture. I thought it might be especially helpful…
Gay Rights Moving Forwards
Even though I don't support Civil Unions, because they aren't enough Gay people should be given complete marriage rights, but In Rhode Island a bill passed to give civil unions…
Canada Day 2011
This has been a difficult year. In Alberta, a forest fire ravaged the town of Slave Lake. In Saskatchewan and Manitoba, the Souris, the Assiniboine and the Red Rivers have…
On the Hydraulic Thesis
The Hydraulic Thesis is related to the interplay between the rise of states in certain societies and the production of large scale irrigation and other 'hydraulic' systems that increase per…
Strauss-Kahn case near collapse, officials say
If it does collapse the attitude of Europe towards American justice will be interesting: http://bit.ly/iY4X1k The new revelations are likely to buttress the view of Strauss-Kahn's supporters, who complained that…
The Tops for June
Muskrat Falls. Provincial Tory political fortunes. Those are the two main themes running through the most popular posts for June. Nalcor negotiating Muskrat transmission with Hydro-Quebec Dunderdale disapproval doubles Well,…
Alberta Liberal Survey: Laurie Blakeman
Last week I sent a survey to every Alberta Liberal leadership candidate currently announced. Ms Blakeman was the first to send in the survey (and, might I add, the only…
Happy Alberta Day, Canada! Get used to it!
Labour relations in Alberta, circa 1999: The authorities, in this case the Calgary Police Service, openly intervene in a labour dispute on the side of the employer. Your blogger, in…
Wind power blows
Cross-posed from Irregular Climate In The Know: Coal Lobby Warns Wind Farms May Blow Earth Off Orbit Panelists debate whether the U.S. is doing enough to heed the warnings of…
The capacity for critical thought – how do we build it?
Just as we wind down the first half of 2011 in preparation for Canada Day, three disparate blog posts are jumping out at me:At Sixth Estate, Government of Canada Issues…
Chavecito speaks
Uh oh. Looks like the bastards and spooks were right about one thing, after all. Chavecito DID have cancer… …and now, let’s hope his confidence is well founded, and that…
Molly’sBlog 2011-06-30 23:30:00
INTERNATIONAL LABOUR COLOMBIA: STOP VALE UNION BUSTING IN COLOMBIA:The other year workers in Ontario and Newfoundland were "treated" to an exhibition of just how hard hearted and tight fisted the…
Case against Strauss-Kahn falling apart
“It is a mess, a mess on both sides.” That's the conclusion of one person involved in the investigations. The accuser has been found to have lied about multiple aspects…
The Maple Crown, or why you should leave the Union Jack at home
As we suffer through more breathless coverage of the royal visit (as an unrepentant monarchist, even I am done with the ridiculousness of the coverage), I felt that I should…
3888…Speaking Of Free Speech
I just grabbed this off of Radio-Info.com and OMG.Monday, June 20, 2011 Neal Boortz' "dead thugs" comment is causing a divide Talk host Neal Boortz made the comments on his…