Fun with Numbers: Most Volatile Ridings
Unless Stephen Harper breaks his own fixed election date law (ha ha ha!), we'll have a new set of ridings for the 2015 election.So for kicks this summer, I'm looking…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for July 6, 2011
Here are today's leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter:Judge blasts Ottawa police over search - Ottawa Citizen -http://goo.gl/knvlVStrauss-Kahn Lawyers and Prosecution Set Meeting to Discuss Dismissal or Plea…
I can’t say that I am not enjoying this
While I often castigate Canada's Sun and Post Medias, not to mention the editorial board of the Globe, for their conservative bias there are few more yellow-toothed than those hacks…
Stephen Hawking: Human-Caused Climate Change Dire Threat To Future Of World
Renowned theoretical physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking has stated that climate change stands alongside the use of nuclear weapons as one of the greatest threats posed to the future of…
QotD: On Peter MacKay
The whole column by Paul Robinson is worth a read but I was particularly struck by this part: When Peter MacKay is, as so often, praised for being popular with…
The Problem And The Power Of Critical Thinking
Fellow blogger Orwell recently wrote a post entitled The capacity for critical thought – how do we build it? In it, he was challenging readers to brainstorm ways in which…
OpenMedia.ca Boycotts CRTC Hearing as the Commission Faces Charges of Bias
openmedia_logo.jpg July 6, 2011 – OpenMedia.ca is announcing its boycott of the CRTC's controversial hearing on over-the-top (OTT) content, which will determine whether online video services l...
Is Harper Planning to Wage War on Russia?
Ater invading Poland .... Oops! Wrong dicatator.After putting our soldiers in the most dangerous places in Afghanistan (A Soldier First, Rick Hillier) and blasting Libya back to the stone age,…
Somewhere, Stephen Harper is smiling at this.
Statistics Canada released a survey today on the reasons given by those Canadians as to why they did not vote in the May 2 federal election: ..The most common response…
The Mumpsimus Blog – Relearning the bass and other follies
The past few weeks I've been a bit pre-occupied with several tasks and pursuits, so I haven't been blogging much, although I have been busy. About a month ago, I…
Larry Miller’s Five Levels of Drinking
I love this routine by Larry Miller; it’s great storytelling, and it reminds me of my idiot friends. We went so far as to name all of these levels, including…
Harper’s Assault on Libya NOT Sanctioned by UN
I wondered why Harper took the extension of the so-called "mission" in Libya to Parliament. He didn't have to. As prime minister he alone can decide whether or not to…
Firefighters Find and Rescue Man With Autism Lost in Sewer System
Firefighters in Downers Grove Illinois have found and rescued a 20 year old man with autism whose parents reported that he might be lost in the sewer system. Apparently after…
Watch: Punk rock band Rise Against confronts homophobia
Chicago-based punk rock band Rise Against have contributed to the It Gets Better campaign by producing a video for their latest release, "Make It Stop (September’s Children)" to address a…
Tory Anti-Tobacco Law Proves Useless
I wrote surprisingly alot about Bill C-32, which banned the sale of flavoured tobacco products targeted at children. Cigarillos, basically. It turns out to be a fairly meaningless stab at…
Column of the week
The tax cutting orthodoxy of the Republicans comes under fire from right wing New York Times columnist David Brooks as the debt ceiling fight looms: The party is not being…
Ontario Catholic Schools To Get GSAs
Great news! Thanks to pressure from students, the Ontario government has announced that all schools receiving public funding, including Catholic schools, must allow GLBT support groups starting this September. “The…
Loan guarantee for Muskrat Falls “electioneering” says NDP MP from Quebec
Noob Bloc NDP member of parliament Raymond Cote made it clear on Tuesday he disagrees with his party on a loan guarantee for the Muskrat Falls project.According to Canada.com: "It's…
Not worth their time
According to Statistics Canada, more than half of people who didn’t vote in the last election didn’t bother because they were either a) disinterested, or b) “too busy.” And it’s…