mountaintop mining.jpg This week, hundreds of protesters are marching to Blair Mountain in West Virginia to call for an end to mountaintop removal coal mining. The march commemorates the Battle…
Before I begin, I tried leaving a comment over at Andrea Mrosek’s latest screed over there just a few minutes ago, and found that I was banned; comment rejected. Oh…
Once again, journalists have moved in where police “watchdogs” fear to tread. The Toronto Star has now established the identity of the sadistic cop who viciously assaulted a member of…
Today is officially “Hug a Climate Scientist Day”, a reminder that climate scientists are our friends! Don’t forget to do so, virtually, or in reality if you happen to have…
Some events of note in South America's last five years: In Bolivia, President Evo Morales presided over the ratification of a new social democratic constitution and was re-elected as president…
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I remember appearing in front of him on many of occasions. He was a model of a judge and will be missed. He was fair, generous and wise.He was interviewed…
At a punditry panel this morning at the Conservative Convention in Ottawa, Conservative MP and Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister, Dean Del Mastro, took to the microphone to share…
Canada Post threatening strikes.Air Canada says it may walk.The NFL.WFDS
keystonexlmap_350.jpg According to the NRDC, the proposed $13 billion Keystone XL tar sands pipeline would not be able to detect “pinhole leaks” in the pipeline that release fewer tha...
Macleans updates it's 1997 list ranking Canada's Best PMs, and produces the following top 10:1. Wilf2. Johnny Mac3. The Lyon4. Mikey B5. PET6. JC7. Uncle Louis8. Robbie B9. Lyin' Brian10.…
Assorted content to end your week.- When Paul Wells tears into a story, you can be assured of results that are both entertaining and frustrating. This week, he's been hard…
In the immediate wake of the Fukushima nuclear power plant meltdown, German Chancellor Angela Merkel sprung into action, rescinding her decision to extend the operation of her own country's nuclear…
As the sometimes tedious nomination process for the 2012 GOP nominee continues along we have been treated to the usual asymmetry in the media's attention to this process towards the…
Canada (Attorney General) v. Mavi, 2011 SCC 30 released this morning stands for the proposition that procedural fairness always applies to administrative decisions. The content of what fairness requires is…
of folks back home in Ottawa… sort of. On the one hand, I’ve always wanted to see Great Big Sea do a Canada Day show on the Hill. On the…
of folks back home in Ottawa... sort of. On the one hand, I've always wanted to see Great Big Sea do a Canada Day show on the Hill. On the…
of folks back home in Ottawa… sort of. On the one hand, I’ve always wanted to see Great Big Sea do a Canada Day show on the Hill. On the…
R. v. Snyder, 2011 ONCA 445 is a useful source for the (fairly obvious) principle that a judge sitting alone does not have to warning themselves of the dangers of…
