Neighbourhood Flower Gardens: UPDATE
The Park Board passed unanimously my motion to allow neighbourhood groups to plant flowers in unused public spaces. With a slight tweak to the costing sources, all commissioners spoke in…
Caledonia Militia Gets New Gig
Gary McHale, Mark Vandermaas, and co. have declared victory in Caledonia. They've decided there's no point in hassling Indians anymore and moved on to greener pastures. More particularly, London Ont.,…
europe gives pedestrians and transit priority over cars!
ZURICH — While American cities are synchronizing green lights to improve traffic flow and offering apps to help drivers find parking, many European cities are doing the opposite: creating environments…
On direct representation
In discussing how the new Parliament has functioned so far, Charlie Angus makes an important point which hints at how the Bloc lost touch with Quebec - as well as…
babushkas: brave, bold singing grannies from the wilds of Russia
In Russian culture, one iconic image is the elderly woman — in Russian, she’s called a “babushka” — sitting on a roadside, selling vegetables from her garden. One group of…
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…