Dany Morin talks about his first three weeks
It’s time to start my end-of-sitting (brief as it was) roundups, starting first with new NDP MP Dany Morin. I spoke with Morin after Question Period today.Q: How has it…
Guest Blog: Micah Goldberg on Senate Reform
In America, the Book, Samantha Bee half-jokingly wrote that Canadians were too polite to cause a fuss over our redundant Senate. Seemingly, the times have changed. Senate reform has recently…
LulzSec ‘Mastermind’ – 19 year old Ryan Cleary Arrested For Hacking CIA , Sony, Nintendo, US Senate Computers
A teenage “recluse” who lives with his mother in Essex was being questioned by police last night on suspicion of masterminding an international computer hacking group. Ryan Cleary, the 19-year-old…
One year after G20: Activist Jaggi Singh’s sentence suspended…
By CLAC-Montréal; June 21, 2011 - rabble.cahttp://rabble.ca/news/2011/06/one-year-after-g20-activist-ja... Montreal, June 21, 2011 -- Today, Montrealer Jaggi Singh, a member of the Anti-Capitalist Convergence (CLAC), was sentenced for "inciting" peo...
Meet British Tory Backbencher, Philip Davies–He Can Make Harpercon Cheerleaders Blush
I probably shouldn’t be blogging about this asshole, as I’m sure our labour minister, Ms Lisa Raitt would no doubt, find him, well, sexy. However, I’m sure what backward, assinine…
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Treaty 8 First Nations appeal to the UN to intervene against proposed Site C Dam
Tuesday, June 21, 2011 Treaty 8 First Nations have taken their struggle against the proposed Site ...
Let’s be Marines! Get over DADT
Sgt. Maj. Barrett speaking to new Marines and I suspect to the attackers of DADT ... Sgt. Maj. Barrett, top ranked enlisted man in US Marines “Get over it,” he…
On back to work legislation. Whoa, deja vu.
So, another conservative (note the small "c") government, another round of back to work legislation. Canada violates its international obligations yet again, and is again grouped with such shining lights…
RCMP finally investigates Muskoka’s G8 ‘Legacy Infrastructure’
Uh oh – time for Tony Clement to get all huffy and defiant again because dammit, we just wont go away with the questions about how $50M was distributed throughout…
The results are in
While it's interesting to have a glance at an early sense from Canadians on how they're feeling about what they just elected federally, part of this Nanos poll seems utterly…
They are going to create a monster here
“They are going to create a monster here, because you will have at the end of the day … an elected body that may or may not be elected, that…
National Aboriginal Day – June 21, 2011
First Nations singers / drum group - 'Iron Swing' from Sturgeon Lake, Saskatchewan ...
Why the dolphins are smarter than us—recently revealed
Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, animal advocate and a very funny man, once observed that, "Man always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins…
He robbed a bank of one dollar to get health care
North Carolina man robs store for a dollar so he can get health care in prison for medical problem "The pain was beyond the tolerance that I could accept," he…
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Mitigation does not apply to an action for a fixed debt
Fischer v. Dyck Forages & Grasses Ltd., 2011 MBCA 47 deals with the obligation to mitigate when collecting a contract debt. In general, mitigation does not apply to an action for a…
QP: Dismissing an RCMP investigation as a PR stunt
It being National Aboriginal Day, there were a number of Members’ Statements to that effect, and after Jack Layton dispensed with a couple of cursory questions on the postal strike…