More police brutality in Ottawa
I find this story quite disturbing. Bad enough that the police are beating up on women and drunks and people in custody, but kids too? The 15-year-old kid, on the…
Canada ranked worst of G7 nations in fighting bribery, corruption
Inspired by this story: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/canada-ranked-worst-of-g7-nations-in-fighting-bribery-corruption/article2032347/
New Resolution: A Resolution Regarding the Prevention of Cancer
A Resolution Regarding the Prevention of CancerProposed by Ken Ranney, Peterborough, OntarioDate: 24/05/11Whereas we are currently facing an epidemic of cancer and other diseases whose cause is unknown; andWhereas a…
OK, I’m back
I thought I would have more time. I wasn't planning to write again until July, but I see the ante has been upped, the party is organizing a new special…
Blog notes – Tuesday, May 24th
For the life of me, I can't come up with a blog post title that expresses that I just want to include a number of items, briefly and that has…
Audio: Interview with Alberta Party leadership candidate Randy Royer
Nation, I had a chance to sit down with businessman, author and Alberta Party leadership contender Randy Royer the day after the recent federal election.The Alberta Party will be choosing…
Where Are The Woodwards and Bernsteins?
Lawrence Martin has a timely column this morning on the the state of Canadian journalism. Martin writes of the late James Thomson, who warned that the biggest occupational hazard for…
Renewal
There has been a lot of talk about Liberal Party renewal since election night. Which is encouraging - after a punch to gut like that, it's easy to give up,…
Ontario NDP on the rise as an election looms in Ontario
Ontario provincial NDP has momentum - The Globe and MailNanos polling shows that since Feb. 2011, the NDP has risen 6 points from 13% to 19%.During this same time period,…
Saving the World from Terrorist Breastfeeding Toddlers [UPDATED]
An Atlanta, Georgia suburb is fighting one of the most pressing causes of our era — children who breastfeed past twenty-four months. Because breastfeeding after the age of two will…
SCOTUS: California prisons overcrowded — duh
Yesterday, the US Supreme Court said that California is in violation of its own consent decree regarding prison conditions related to overcrowding -- an unfortunate result of the well intentioned…
Shades of Green: The Psychology of Denial
The scientific community has been in a state of constrained panic during the last couple of years as the binding terms of the Kyoto Protocol approach expiry, as a replacement…
Offices open for election at the convention this Saturday.
As per the proposed constitution, the following proposed offices will be open for election at the convention this Saturday, May 28th, 2011.Any member of the party has the right to…
On CBC, a further demonstration of Toronto cops’ contempt for us
On Metro Morning today, Matt Galloway talked to police union boss Mike McCormack about the nameless asshole who broke Dorian Barton's arm at the G20 last summer, and about the…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for May 24, 2011
We hope that all of our readers had a lovely long weekend! Now, for your leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter!:Bob Dylan turns 70: 'I'm younger than that…
Extra Billing for Eye Drops Banned in Quebec: A Victory in the Fight against Health System Erosion?
The Quebec government has just announced that it will pay for supplementary fees charged by private clinics for giving drops used to combat macular degeneration. The fees charged by Opthamologists…
Ontario Politics: NDP getting a mini post-Layton bump
The Ontario election is still a few months away, so it’s a bit early to be predicting election outcomes, but it appears this Nanos poll shows that Andrea Horwath is…
How to Unsuck Canada’s Internet – creating the right incentives
This week at the Mesh conference in Toronto (where I'll be talking Open Data) the always thoughtful Jesse Brown, of TVO's Search Engine will be running a session title How…
we movie to canada: annual wmtc movie awards, 2010-11 edition
My annual Movie Season post is appearing later and later every year, but at long last, I've carved out the time to write it. We started out with TV serieses…
Sink Or Swim
The Gerry Nichols column denotes the difference between philosophy and partisanship. I believe political subsidies are a good thing in Canada, the reforms Chretien enacted took organized money out of…