Another police beatdown, this time on a busker in Vancouver
During the celebrations after Friday's Canucks victory, among the joy and peaceful gathering, a phalanx of cops beat down a licensed busker. Apparently, he was 'disturbing the peace'. In a…
Poem of the week: The Rolling English Road by GK Chesterton | Books | guardian.co.uk
The Rolling English Road Before the Roman came to Rye or out to Severn strode, The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road. A reeling road, a rolling road,…
Conservatives plan sustained attack on media
With Conservatives lording over the great majority of our national media, it's laughable that the party is about to wage another war - this one on the media. But who…
Roubini Reads Redbedhead For Economic Advice
What do you think: is Dr. Doom, the soothsaying economist, famous for predicting the banking sector meltdown back in 2006 - two years before it happened - taking a peek…
In Which I Swear, Repeatedly, or, TorontoEmerg Gets Bullied
I write this blog for a number of reasons: my own amusement, to educate, to share various random thoughts, to tell stories, to stimulate discussion on topics important to nursing,…
Rush Limbaugh Seizes–and Freezes?–on "ClimateGate"
Rush_Limbaugh.jpg For some time, it has been clear that “ClimateGate” has a dramatic meaning for the political right in the U.S. Somehow, “ClimateGate” gave those conserva...
They’re Bandits. They’re Supposed to Make Out Like Bandits.
The Pentagon and the Iraqi government are giving up trying to locate $6.6 billion in greenbacks that went missing in the chaos after the American conquest of Iraq. Their conclusion…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Rhys Kesselman rightly points out how the populist message that propelled the Cons to power has given way to elitist policy-making:Once the federal budget…
Do you find it surprising?
I find it surprising not at all that even though many people who support politically right-of-centre parties (such as our current government, senate, and supreme court) often say things like:…
TEXT: Alfred Apps On A Charter Of Economic, Social & Cultural Rights
There were two major policy intiatives advanced by Liberal Party President Alfred Apps in his speech before The Empire Club of Canada last week. One was on electoral reform for…
Eating Local Is Delicious With Rhubarb Kuchen
Here in northern Ontario where I live, rhubarb is the first harvest from the garden that we look forward to. In anticipation of a meal of homemade pasta and grilled…
Hack Pundit Of The Week: Bronwyn Eyre
I often wonder if newspapers aren't better off publishing high school essays instead of paying columnists. The writing might suffer but the research would be much better.Case in point: Bronwyn…
Montreal Guerrilla Gardening: "Tour de Guerrilla" Silent Film
OuVert is an open urban sustainability lab that I'm helping to start here in Montreal. Below is an occasionally Chaplin-esque video of our first event - a seedbomb workshop and…
Parliament, not judges, should decide
Imagine a nation with rampant open, but unlawful, prostitution, a significant number of the poorest prostitutes coming from aboriginal backgrounds often with drug and alcohol addiction and a constant undercurrent…
My take on Senate reform
We need the Senate, but not as it is now. The current Senate is far too inefective, inefficient, and undemocratic. I don’t agree with Stephen Harper much, but I do…
My take on Senate reform
We need the Senate, but not as it is now. The current Senate is far too inefective, inefficient, and undemocratic. I don't agree with Stephen Harper much, but I do…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for June 13, 2011
Here are today's leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter:Witness to Innocence: 24 death row survivors speak at Virginia event - http://goo.gl/RF8HOIncredible Shrinking Workers’ Income - http://goo.gl/jF1E6Juror prosecuted over…
A Blast From Ezra’s Past:
Despite his constant criticism of CBC as a "state broadcaster" spouting propaganda "on the tax-payers dime", Ezra Levant sponged up government dough when he ran The Western Standard. And, when…
The CANARIE in the coalshaft: CPC cuts funding to Internet research network
Cross-posted from Mediamorphis I received an email this morning alerting me to something that had, well, been flying under my radar: CANARIE, or Canada’s Advanced Research and Innovation Network as…
Anthony Weiner Song
Anthony Weiner knows how to be famous. Enjoy.