Home is a source of power
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 For me one of the most interesting observations in West Coast Environmental Law’s “Emerging Solutions on Clean, Green Power” Dialogue came from former ...
Hypocrisy from the Canadian Jewish Congress’ Marilyn Shapiro
The letters page of today’s National Post includes a submission by one Marilyn Shapiro of Thornhill. She responds to a previous letter by Professor Yakov Rabkin which defends Independent Jewish…
Hypocrisy from the Canadian Jewish Congress’ Marilyn Shapiro
The letters page of today’s National Post includes a submission by one Marilyn Shapiro of Thornhill. She responds to a previous letter by Professor Yakov Rabkin which defends Independent Jewish…
Canada 2.0 – Way to go Canada!
Update on my recent interest in seeing Twitter go Canuck. Good going Canada! It looks like more people are setting their locations because I’ve been seeing more and more Cancon…
Just 11 Caribou Left
Monday, February 1, 2010 This morning Chief Roland Willson and the entire Council of the West Moberly First Nations, from Northeast BC, walked into a courtroom in Victoria to ask…
The Canadian Jewish Congress and the National Post’s double standard on Independent Jewish Voices
Last week, the National Post published a screed yet again attacking Independent Jewish Voices and its former chair, Diana Ralph. Several years ago, prior to joining Independent Jewish Voices, Ralph…
Democracy in Canada 2.0 – Twitter
I my first article in my series Canada 2.0 I introduced the idea that social media technologies, Internet 2.0 or social media, are beginning to reach a critical mass in…
Irreparable Damage? Whose Irreparable Damage?
On Thursday, January 28th, social rights lawyer, David Baker, of Bakerlaw, represented the West Toronto Diamond Community Group in the Federal Court of Appeal. He was beyond eloquent, he was…
Irreparable Damage? Whose Irreparable Damage?
On Thursday, January 28th, social rights lawyer, David Baker, of Bakerlaw, represented the West Toronto Diamond Community Group in the Federal Court of Appeal. He was beyond eloquent, he was…
Irreparable Damage? Whose Irreparable Damage?
On Thursday, January 28th, social rights lawyer, David Baker, of Bakerlaw, represented the West Toronto Diamond Community Group in the Federal Court of Appeal. He was beyond eloquent, he was…
Irreparable Damage? Whose Irreparable Damage?
On Thursday, January 28th, social rights lawyer, David Baker, of Bakerlaw, represented the West Toronto Diamond Community Group in the Federal Court of Appeal. He was beyond eloquent, he was…
An Open Letter to Taliban Steve
Dear Steve (you jerk), It is with dismay and disgust that I write these words. I thought you were a leader cut from a different clothe. Your cold steel blue…
The mens rea of pie
Like an actor misquoting Shakespeare, Liberal MP Gerry Byrne stumbles through a legislative interpretative dance. In an interview with radio station VOCM in St. John’s on Tuesday, Mr. Byrne said…
A Coalition of Nonsense
“It doesn’t have to be true. It just has to be plausible and it strikes me as plausible.” This statement was made back in September of 2009 by Tom Flanagan,…
Climate change changes everything in our Forests
Thursday, January 28, 2010 For some time West Coast Environmental Law has been advocating for the BC government to change the way it manages forests to recognize the reality of…
Haldimand "Pitcher First to File for Elections"
I want to thank Cathy Pelletier for a great article!For the past ten months I have been writing for the Dunnville Chronicle covering Haldimand County Council meetings and local politics.…
Haldimand "Pitcher First to File for Elections"
I want to thank Cathy Pelletier for a great article! For the past ten months I have been writing for the Dunnville Chronicle covering Haldimand County Council meetings and local…
Haldimand "Pitcher First to File for Elections"
I want to thank Cathy Pelletier for a great article!For the past ten months I have been writing for the Dunnville Chronicle covering Haldimand County Council meetings and local politics.…
Haldimand "Pitcher First to File for Elections"
I want to thank Cathy Pelletier for a great article! For the past ten months I have been writing for the Dunnville Chronicle covering Haldimand County Council meetings and local…
Prorogation, Disengagement and Cutting the Democratic Deficit in Canada
by matttbastard With thousands of Canadians reportedly hitting the streets this past weekend to express their disapproval of Stephen Harper’s latest arrogant bird-flip to Parliamentary democracy, it seems apparrent that…