As far as substance goes, Stephane Dion's op-ed on the Government's Senate reform package is unassailable. As a political document, however, it leaves a lot to be desired.The Liberal's Intergovernmental…
R. v. Shi, 2011 ONCA 515 deals with the issue of "lesser and included" offences. The issue often causes problems. To be clear and offence is "lesser and included" if it must form…
INTERNATIONAL POLITICS BAHRAIN:TELL US WOMEN'S WORLD CUP PLAYERS TO SUPPORT THEIR FELLOW PLAYERS IN BAHRAIN:As this is being written the US Team at The Women's World Football Cup has advanced…
Last Thursday, July 7, BC’s Minister of Community, Sport and Cultural Development, Ida Chong, announced $16.8 million in funding for the arts, to be administered through the BC Arts Council.…
Disconfirmation-Model.gif Recently, I’ve become aware that the prominent climate science skeptic blogger Anthony Watts has been challenging a number of my posts. Maybe it's because in ...
In addition to writing a large portion of the final report for the "Private Eyes" research project, I've been stressing over something else - something I decided not to share,…
Hard hitting piece from the David Suzuki foundation on the NDP playing political games with the environment:http://www.davidsuzuki.org/blogs/climate-blog/2011/07/the-ontario-ndp-platform-politics-trump-good-energy-policyagain/?fb_ref=top&fb_source=...
The BBC has just reported, as I am writing this, that Rupert Murdoch and his News Corporation is giving up its bid for total control of BSkyB (he presently has…
The Telegram’s Russell Wangersky looked ahead to the fall election and didn’t like what he saw. Wangersky’s assessment is brutal but it is accurate. The Liberals: “When someone who isn't…
Miscellaneous material for your midweek reading.- Stephen Gordon weighs in again on the Cons' census disaster:Many readers may have thought that the census issue was settled last summer; it wasn’t.…
While it will likely come as no surprise to many, the Harper Government has within its sights the CBC, the sometimes irksome public broadcaster that the right-wing so often loves…
The "negotiations" surrounding raising the debt limit in the United States is a particularly poignant example of the oh-too-funny-if-not-so-serious circus of partisan, brinkmanship showboating that dominants so much of American…
BY JAMES MORTON, OTTAWA CITIZEN JULY 12, 2011 Recent cases in Canada and the United States have caused an uproar because parents apparently guilty of murdering their children have been…
The last couple of weeks on the Plateau, as the house near readiness. It is very hot, and the apartment is hotter, but at least we can get up on…
In an article published in Al Arabiya, Melody Moezzi, an Iranian-American Muslim writer and attorney from Chicago has come out in support of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights, stating:The…
If you want to know the state of the relationship between democratically elected governments of the West and the multinational corporations, all you have to do is look at the…
I have always thought that Churchill was right when he said that, "the United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative" I was a graduate…
January 22, 1978 It appears that in the future, the world is inhabited by a strange race of bird people. I am a happy fellow indeed! Lok-laach-do is my boon…
Apparently, his decision was made last month, but done in so low key a fashion that nobody in the MSM noticed. Meanwhile, Mr. Blackett has issued a ringing defense of…
