CUPW will challenge the back-to-work legislation
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…
ministers mel knight and luke ouellette crash landowners rights meeting.
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…
Taken up by the ferries
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…
Canada’s Democratic Deficit
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…
When Facts Don’t Matter: Proving The Problem With Fox News
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...
140 Law – Legal Headlines for June 29, 2011
Here are today's leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter:Judge Explains 150-Year Sentence for Madoff - http://goo.gl/dgS5jState to dead man: No need for jury duty - http://goo.gl/1Nj2LTampa retiree says…
OpenMedia.ca Available for Comment: Penalizing Bell for Deceiving and Gouging Customers Addresses Symptom, not Disease
openmedia_logo.jpg WHO: Steve Anderson – Founder and Executive Director of OpenMedia.ca, the citizen engagement organization behind the 490,000-strong Stop The Meter campaign, and co-author of ...
Who says you can’t go home?
Some guy named Michael Ignatieff weighs in on the life of Canadians living outside the country:I was away a long time in Britain and the States, it’s true, but I…
An Eye On The Future
In today's Globe and Mail, Micheal Ignatieff offers a response to those despicable attack ads that Conservatives ran from the day he became Liberal leader until the day he resigned…
Pope Benedict XVI is tweeting: Praise Jesus is the first tweet
Wow! Jesus must be very proud. Read the story here.
Why now
Why now? Why like this? You’ve had ample opportunity, and you’ve taken none of it. So you hid for a while behind the pseudonym, knowing only I would know who…
More on Asbestos
The other day I wrote a piece lamenting the ongoing immoral Canadian export of asbestos and the fact that Canada was the sole country that recently prevented it from being…
If my friends could see me now!
Last night I had some friends over for dinner. I did well with the mix of people, from 24 to 64, we sang songs from Broadway. It was to borrow…
Winners And Losers
In the minority on the political ramifications of the whole postal dispute/filibuster, I argued the Liberals didn't "lose", and the NDP weren't the big winners most assumed. Not a question…
Wednesday drive-by blogging
From some American links that caught the eye and offer a mirror to things Canadian in their own respective ways...First, a brilliant post, "Democracy and Gay Marriage" by Ta-Nehisi Coates.…
His name was Donald Gennaro, btw
Returning to the food chain would suck. You can watch the poor man get consumed at YouTube, of course, but why would you want to watch a lawyer get humiliated…
From the cheap seats
Someone just forwarded this to me via Twitter. Alec Baldwin (@AlecBaldwin) ranting about the state of politics, or, more to the point, politicians in America.This isn't exactly ground-breaking, inspiring stuff.…
Hack Pundit Of The Week: David Warren
David Warren uses his latest column in the Ottawa Citizen to plead to keep his job at the paper. There really is no other cogent explanation for his ramblings. His…
A Majority Has the Authority!
A new poll shows that 51% of Americans support recognizing gay marriage in the U.S.A . Now there is no reason that more states should allow Gay Marriage. In 2008…