Deep thought
Boy, is it ever a good thing we have a stubborn, unaccountable majority government to help restore confidence in Canada's economy.
SCIENCE!!!
“Wouldn’t it be cool,” The Captain said just now, before going to school for his last day of fifth grade,”if we could cross-breed insects and arthropods and then control them?…
Wrecking This Place Down: How Do We Protect Our Children In An Age of Environmental Crisis?
Sandra Steingraber is a mother, a biologist, a cancer-survivor, and the author of several books on the dangers we are facing from the environmental toxins that surround us. Her most…
Scandalizing the court
“In the criminal justice system,” the Law and Order voiceover intones, “the people are represented by two separate but equally important groups: the police who investigate crime and the district…
Sober second thought
Sober second thought, of what... A globe editorial said even though Bill C-6, A Bill to force the resumption of postal Services sailed through the upper chamber, the bill received…
The Up Side of Traffic Snarls: Getting People out of Their Cars
I know, I know, school's out, so there is less traffic on the roads, but the rather speedy amelioration in Montreal's center city traffic snarls these last two weeks is…
Tim Hudak vs. your wallet (and his own caucus)
http://www.torontosun.com/2011/06/27/tories-eye-eco-tax-on-electronicsTim Hudak showed his recklessness with his flip-flops on the HST (Going from being in favour of it, to wanting to scrap it, to saying he would reduce it, to…
Denial For Hire: Willie Soon’s Career Fueled by Big Oil, Coal and Koch Money
willie-soon.jpg Willie Soon, the notorious climate denier who has made a career out of attacking the IPCC and climate scientists, has received over $1 million in funding from Big Oil…
Could Have Been Elections: The Liberal-Democrats
In response to my previous "what if" post on running elxn41 under a preferential ballot, a few blog readers wondered how the election would have turned out had there been…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for June 28, 2011
Here are today's leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter:Woman who recorded police is off the hook - http://goo.gl/VsgglFormer vice president of Citigroup arrested for stealing $19 million -http://goo.gl/j9R2K…
Why Your Comment Wasn’t Approved or Your E-mail Not Answered
Occasionally, here at Pro-Woman, Pro-Choice, we receive inane e-mails and comments, which are usually from anti-choice men who feel the need to lecture us on the evils of feminism and…
Cons, if it’s ‘Tough on Crime’ you want, start with dirty cops
Canada is becoming known as the country where the police are the new cowboys of the wild west. They have no punishments. Citizens have no recourse save civil suits. Today's…
Since I Can’t Comment on My Blog I Must Explain Jack Layton Post
After posting my piece yesterday: Jack Layton Needs to Spend the Summer Taking "Speech" Lessons I received a couple of comments in defense of the Layton strategy.I'm still unable to…
My theme for this week
After reading many ill-informed posts and comments about the postal strike (and nary a whisper about the Air Canada strike), I’ve decided that this will be my theme for the…
Reach For the Top?
In Macleans recent survey of Canadian Prime Ministers, Stephen Harper occupies the middle ground. He is rated 11th out of 22. Wilfred Laurier comes in first; hapless Kim Campbell occupies…
24 hours in post-election & post-parliamentary session developments
A few items from the past 24 hours that have that air of careful timing to them for a government that would prefer such things to occur beyond the parliamentary…
Apocalypse Cow
Never get out of the boat. Absolutely goddamn right. Unless you were going all the way. Kurtz got off the boat. He split from the whole fuckin’ program. And me?…
Is It Really a Win?
Canada managed to keep asbestos off the hazardous list. We in Canada don't use asbestos, because it's not safe enough for us, but we are glad to continue to export…
Get me re-write!
The headline on the story is catchy: Inquiry needed on centre closure: advocate At the start of second paragraph you find out that the advocate the headline writer is referring…