Shades of Green: The Ecology of Wealth
If a healthy biological ecology provides for the well-being of its plants and animals, then a healthy human ecology should provide for the well-being of its constituent members. But human…
Why Are we Allowing the Media to Write the Narrative?
I've found myself getting upset the past few days reading columns about the Harper majority.There is an overwhelming attempt to rewrite Stephen Harper's political story.Angelo Persichilli tells us that yes…
The Ugly Truth About Shark Fin Soup
I was pleased to read in today's Star that two Toronto city councillors, Glenn De Baeremaeker and Kristyn Wong-Tam, are making a motion this week to ban the sale and…
Atmospheric Trust Litigation
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 Do the governments of the world have a legal duty to protect the atmosphere...
Good news—Gates says NATO faces dismal future
U.S. Defence Secretary Robert Gates is not amused by the lack of military esprit de corp among America's NATO allies. "The blunt reality," he lectured, "is that there will be…
A Founding Father Denounces Today’s Warfare State
Of all the enemies of true liberty, war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of…
Game 7
It has been called riveting, strange, even nasty. The Vancouver Boston series has been one of the most interesting series I have ever watched. I won’t do any analysis, I…
Is The (anti)Smart Tax Alliance Push-Polling For The HST?
HeadsTheyWinTailsWeLoseVilleSo.According to J. Fowlie in the VSun, the consortium of business groups that have directly benefitted from the tax shift that is the HST and who have, to the best…
Democracy, dictators and Stephen Harper
Conservatives and their allies are busy keeping Brigette DePape in the news, in a variant of the Streisand Effect. The crescendo of tsk-tsking on the Right would have done Hester…
Does not get much sillier than this…
… aka, the xkcd wikipedia meme All right, it has been a while since last time I did this kind of stuff. I saw it at VWXYNOT? (where else, eh…
Crossing The Huffington Post Picket Line
The Diva doesn't know why it's a big deal that HuffPo has surpassed the NY Times in web traffic for the first time. http://readersupportednews.org/off-site-opinion-section/71-71/6265-crossing-the-huffington-post-picket-lineHuffPo has been declining ove...
Baboon and Bush Baby Bonding: Wonders of Nature
Nature has programmed or put software in all living beings for survival. If two humans share backgrounds they tend to bond and same goes for animals in many cases.In this…
He Died Like a Pilot
I think the world would be far better off if we demanded that every candidate for political office held a valid pilot licence. Why? Because time and again, pilots demonstrate…
A Rapture would have been just dandy for some…
Non Sequitur rox. And I have to wonder if there weren’t more than a few soft-minded folks out there who were hoping that the dire prediction would be borne true…
Joint submissions on sentence should be followed
R. v. McGraw, 2011 ONCA 451, released today, is a useful current source for the law holding a trial judge ought to follow a joint submission on sentence unless contrary…
Federal New Democrat Caucus Proposes Amendment To Harper’s Libya Motion Which Would Prohibit Canadian Ground Forces
The House of Commons today is debating the following motion, put forward by Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird: No. 1 — June 9, 2011 — The Minister of Foreign Affairs…
Angelic Boston Bruins head to game 7 in dirty Vancouver
Hi, Cathal Kelly here of The Star. Good to see my boys make quick work of the Canucks last night. Don't you just hate the Canucks? Swedes, French Canadians, embellishments,…
Parliament In Review: June 13, 2011
As I'd suspected, there looks to be plenty of material for a review post from just a day's worth of events in the House of Commons. So here's an inaugural…