Ansanm Nou Kapab…Together We can
DSC_1236.JPG Summer Trip to Haiti: From July 7th to August 7th, 2010 Dear friends and supporters, My name is Wadner Pierre. I am a photojournalist and activist from Gonaives, Haiti.…
New Democrats do not shut door on possible merger with Liberals
http://bit.ly/jNhYUD Oddly I suspect a similar view ("to close the door on any future discussion of a merger ... is a serious tactical mistake") might find favour with most Liberals.…
A Sensible Decision
Look, the Conservatives are going to call them socialists anyway, so the NDP may as well embrace the label and make it work for them.
Mark Your Calendars
Liberals have voted to pick a new leader sometime between March and June 2013. I was personally hoping for a shorter timeline but my sense from yesterday's conference call is…
Ontario Employment Law: Disability and Frustration of An Employment Contract
Frustration of an employment contract occurs when, through no fault of either party, an event occurs that makes the contract impossible to perform. Under Ontario law, where an employee is…
Conservative Senator Pamela Wallin IS Elitist And Arrogant
"Every senator in this caucus needs to decide where their loyalty should be and must be. The answer is simple; our loyalty is to the man who brought us here,…
Not pictured
View Full Album I am mindful, on this Father’s Day, that I do not have many photographs of Thomas Arnold (“Arnie”) Chaplin. (The additional ones I do have are wedding…
To thine own self be true
Just a fun post – no serious politico-philosophical stuff here…gotta take a break some time.. And yes, I am an unabashed head-banger… I do love music that gets your energy…
looking at nothing and finding infinity
Filed under: Beautiful, Interesting Tagged: hubble ultra deep
This Week At The Ontario Court of Appeal: 11-06-09
Each week Wise Law Blog reviews recent decisions from the Ontario Court of Appeal.Ontario (Labour) v. Black & McDonald Limited. An appeal from an Ontario Court of Justice trial where…
When Crime Isn’t Crime (Or It Is)
The comments on this Calgary Sun article about activists who wish to not receive a criminal record for their act of activism (namely draping a protest banner off the Calgary…
MIA: Federal NDP Constitution
A number of times this year I’ve gone looking for the federal NDP constitution on-line, with no success. During or before the last federal election the party pulled the constitution…
Shades of Green: The Meaning of That Laughter
Moral Ground is a book of environmental essays that contains a chillingly poignant one by Derrick Jensen, "You Choose", in which he has asked people a simple and fundamental question.…
The Pawlenty Plan Part 2
First the U.S will spend 3.8 Trillion this year. Let’s say Pawlenty's plan would only cost 380 billion then you add that with 1.6 trillion you have a approximate 2.0…
Gentlemen – Happy Father’s Day!
“It is a wonderful feeling when your father becomes not a god but a man to you; when he comes down from the mountain and you see he’s this man…
If English was good enough for Jesus Christ
…it’s good enough for America. ...
Ottawa Tech Sector / RIM
A while ago I was going to post a quick something that I saw about the Ottawa Tech Sector from the Ottawa Citizen, but didn’t post it. Unfortunately things didn’t…
On this Father’s Day, let your kids believe in their dreams
For this Father's Day I thought I'd write about my kids. They are 'Buddy Basketball Star' and his sister the 'Princess Raspberry' aged 6 and 12 respectively. Kids are incredible,…
For My Mom and My Dad
AllTheThanksThatFitAllMyKids'HopesAndDreamsVilleI've been climbing in and out of the cigar tube a lot lately on my way to and from not-so-secret science geek bunkers dotted around the country where peer reviewers…