Rasouli v. Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, 2011 ONCA 482 holds that the end of life support followed by palliative care is 'treatment' for purposes of the Health Care Consent Act and so requires…
I sat in my hotel room in London on a recent vacation, reading the comments on my last article in thetyee.ca in which I had congratulated the Vancouver Sun for…
A study prepared by Canada's Department of National Defence sounds the alarm on climate change. The report concludes that energy shortages coupled with the rapidly spreading freshwater crisis and compounded…
I'm no apocalypse junkie; visions of the end of days don't do much for me. But I am going to recommend James Kunstler's most recent article anyway. Kunstler is a…
Steve HerperOkay he is an alien and in 20 years’ time you may be meeting him. According to Russian scientist Andrei Finkelstein it is highly likely that it will happen…
I feel as though every decade in North America another article, report, or paper emerges in which The Environment (note the capital letters) is pitted as public enemy number one.…
As nottawa noted on Tuesday, the net effect of a provincial tax cut on electricity and a rate hike for the province’s Crown energy company isn’t what might appear at…
Complaints over Sun News interview overwhelm watchdog - The Globe and MailNo surprise here.Excerpt from article:Viewers have sent in more than 4,350 complaints since the interview aired on the Sun…
There was a certain amount of hand-wringing by the business press and politicians internationally that the PASOK government of Greece might not be able to pass the second austerity package…
The University of Massachusetts has completed a new study that shows that bicycle lanes create jobs. As a cyclist, this seems obvious to me since whenever I see a store…
Wallace asks the obvious question that’s on most rational people’s minds: The aftermath: Wingnuts go apoplectic that Bachmann wasn’t given an even gentler soft-ball interview and Wallace ends up having…
Wallace asks the obvious question that's on most rational people's minds:The aftermath: Wingnuts go apoplectic that Bachmann wasn't given an even gentler soft-ball interview and Wallace ends up having to…
Wallace asks the obvious question that’s on most rational people’s minds: The aftermath: Wingnuts go apoplectic that Bachmann wasn’t given an even gentler soft-ball interview and Wallace ends up having…
Cross-posted from The Globe And Mail In the first of two column’s last week I offered evidence and argument as to why the CRTC’s current vertical integration hearing is not…
Have a work-related project to get done this week, then out of the country next week. Hopefully, by the time I'm back, the Ontario Libs and Greens will have released…
Canada Post union to challenge back-to-work legislation in court - thestar.comAs I was pointing out, the legislation is illegal, and the union is going to challenge it in court. Now…
This cleverly edited video does not cast a very flattering light on Sustainable Resource Development Minister Mel Knight and Transportation Minister Luke Ouellette as they crashed a presentation being hosted…
With a tender call to build six more ferries,the provincial government is still not finished sorting out problems with its last ferry contract. Earlier this year, Kiewit Marystown delivered two…
Speaking of Senator Lowell Murray, he recently spoke at a conference in New Brunswick to honour Donald Savoie, the esteemed professor of public administration and regional development. The Senator's keynote…
ff-20110127-globalwarming.jpg My two posts about Fox News and misinformation are probably the most popular items I’ve contributed here. They’ve been widely linked, Twee...
