Canada Leading The Way On Climate Change!

Posted at 5:00 on May 18, 2013 by bigcitylib
When it comes to making the seas rise, our glaciers are kicking ass!The new research found that all glacial regions lost mass from 2003 to 2009, with the biggest ice losses occurring in Arctic Canada, Alaska, coastal Greenland, the southern Andes and the Himalayas. The glaciers outside of the Greenland and Antarct...

3- Clicks or Not 3-Clicks? (Is It An Important Question?)

Posted at 3:45 on May 18, 2013 by Paul Summerville
The 3-Click rule has been an unquestioned pillar of web design almost as long as the web itself. The 3-Click Rule is simple, if users can’t find what they’re looking for within three clicks, they’re likely to get frustrated and exit t...

A Look at Bourassa

Posted at 9:00 on May 18, 2013 by Kyle H.
Bourassa in 2011 Recently, as everyone plugged in should be aware, Bourassa MP D...

Stephen Harper’s 1st By-Election Loss

Posted at 10:45 on May 17, 2013 by Joseph Uranowski
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Mayor Ford will survive the crack scandal

Posted at 7:15 on May 17, 2013 by James C Morton
The most recent scandal to touch Toronto's mayor, Rob Ford, involves allegations he smokes crack cocaine. Now, the allegations come second hand in the Toronto Star, and while the Star is a very legitimate newspaper it is also famously feuding with Mayor Ford. Some Toronto Star reporters saw a video tape and based on what they saw concluded Mayor Ford was smoking crack. Maybe they misunderstood, were intentionally misled or were just mistaken in what they saw. It is possible the ...

Lilacs in Niagara Region

Posted at 6:15 on May 17, 2013 by James C Morton
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Crackhead Mayor: how the world sees us

Posted at 11:30 on May 17, 2013 by Warren
…or Taiwanese TV, in any event.  Watching this, I am reminded (among other things) of how we have the world’s best media. But the shot at Toronto voters at the end?  It’s funny, but also true. H/T J. Tetreault! ...

Bernie Farber

Posted at 11:30 on May 17, 2013 by bigcitylib
…poses with: Conservative Party organizer Georgeanne Burke, PCPO riding association president for Thornhill (MPP Peter Shurman’s riding) Gila Martow, and York U professor Merle Jacobs.  Also in the picture is officer Ricky Veerappan, the...

Not Related

Posted at 11:30 on May 17, 2013 by John Klein
The following stories are ^not related. Canadians increasingly cynical about state of democracy: Hepburn Voters are losing trust in the way Canada’s democracy works. Nuh-uh! Living in the Age of Dumbness By Janice Kenn...

Assertive panda

Posted at 10:30 on May 17, 2013 by James C Morton
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It is presumed that Parliament intends crimes to have a subjective fault element

Posted at 10:15 on May 17, 2013 by James C Morton
R. v. A.D.H., 2013 SCC 28, just released, holds child abandonment requires a subjective fault to be proven.  In so doing the Court notes a presumption that crimes require a subjective fault: An important part of the context in which we must interpret s. 218 is the presumption that Parliament intends crimes to have a subjective fault element.  The Court has stated and relied on this inter...

MileStone

Posted at 9:00 on May 17, 2013 by Paul Summerville
This week at the Gustavson School of Business at the University of Victoria, LimeSpot successfully demonstrated how a LimeSpot enabled Facebook page marrie...

The Rob Ford crack video

Posted at 8:30 on May 17, 2013 by Warren
…no one’s got it, yet.  But there’s a few million people who’d like to see it, following this (who broke the story) and this (who sat on the story, for weeks) and ...

Rob Ford and Mike Duffy

Posted at 8:00 on May 17, 2013 by John Klein
Rob Ford, Mayor of Toronto, is alleged to appear in a video of him smoking crack. Mike Duffy, former Conservative Senator, is now jus...

On phone polling vs internet panels

Posted at 7:15 on May 17, 2013 by Scott Tribe
An interesting article from the CBC talking with the BC Liberals internal pollster, who predicted a Liberal Majority with 48 seats, and was off by only 2 (and by 2 more – they eneded up with 50, pending any recounts). Why was his polling better then every other public domain pollster? He says it’s because he used traditional phone polling, not these internet panels: Pantazopoulos says where his findings differ from the other pollsters is that he relies entirely on tr...

Two Ontario Polls

Posted at 6:45 on May 17, 2013 by bigcitylib
Abacus has the Hudak Tories and Wynne’s OLP at 34% apiece with NDP at 25%; Innovative Research–who, you ask?--has Wynne up 7 points 37% to 30% for PCPO with NDP at 25%.  Oh.  And there will be ...

Interactive! – What happened in BC

Posted at 6:30 on May 17, 2013 by TheNewTeddy
Teddy here with an interesting experiment, an interactive blog post, where you, the reader, are encouraged to participate. How this will work is I will start with a short post detailing my own theory as to what happened in BC. Readers will weigh in, in the comments section, and at a certain time (in this case, about 4pm eastern) I will take what I think are the best comments, or, the comments I can best reply to, and edit them into the post to analyze and reply to them. I will then con...

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Cracked up

Posted at 12:45 on May 17, 2013 by Warren
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A Canadian Brownie

Posted at 12:30 on May 17, 2013 by CathiefromCanada
After reading Dawg’s excellent piece about the man who was appointed by the Harper Cons as Librarian and Archivist of Canada, all I can say is, “Heck of a job, Danny!” ...

UPDATED: Why is Duffy Still a Conservative Senator?

Posted at 12:15 on May 17, 2013 by Kyle H.
Poor Mike Duffy. The former CTV broadcaster known for his jovial presence has had a real hard time managing his profile ever since he joined Harper’s Conservative Senate. The star fundraiser known for exactly nothing outside of being loud and kind of annoying on TV – I like to consider him the Kim Kardashian of Conservative politics – has had the reputation of a blowhard for a long time, including royally pissing off Stéphane Dion at one point for his Fox News-esque “...

Why is Duffy Still a Conservative Senator?

Posted at 1:45 on May 16, 2013 by Kyle H.
Poor Mike Duffy. The former CTV broadcaster known for his jovial presence has had a real hard time managing his profile ever since he joined Harper’s Conservative Senate. The star fundraiser known for exactly nothing outside of being loud and kind of annoying on TV – I like to consider him the Kim Kardashian of Conservative politics – has had the reputation of a blowhard for a long time, including royally pissing off Stéphane Dion at one point for his Fox News-esque “...

Students Against Israeli Apartheid Banned At York University

Posted at 1:45 on May 16, 2013 by bigcitylib
…for being too noisy. Which sounds like a way of getting rid of them while circumventing the free speech issues a more direct approach might  entail.  Although this comment from the SAIA York Facebook page gives some credence to the York Admin’s stated rationale: ...

Rhyme Of The Duffster

Posted at 12:30 on May 16, 2013 by bigcitylib
Let’s hear it for Senator Duff/Whose salary wasn’t enuff/He took 90 grand/And when caught redhanded/Just grabbed 90 more from the trough— Trevor Strong (@Trevstrong) May 15, 2013 ...

The money man!

Posted at 12:15 on May 16, 2013 by Warren
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Gender identity

Posted at 12:15 on May 16, 2013 by
Bill C-279 is Private Member’s Bill from the House of Commons introduced there by MP Randall Garrison, a member of the NDP. A Private Members’ Bill is a bill that is presented by any MP who is not in Cabinet. I am the Liberal lead in the Senate for C-279. I am very happy to have this role. ...

The On-Line University Experience

Posted at 10:15 on May 16, 2013 by Paul Summerville
What would it be like attending a university course with more than 31,000 students?  read more ...

Publication ban on name of complainant can properly be made without notice to media

Posted at 10:00 on May 16, 2013 by James C Morton
CBC v. Her Majesty The Queen, 2013 NUCJ 06:  [20] I am satisfied that section 486.4 is applicable where the Crown only wants a publication ban on the name of the complainant. The order would usually be requested at the first appearance in court and there is no requirement to give notice to the media. However, where the Crown seek...

Debating the State

Posted at 9:45 on May 16, 2013 by Paul Summerville
Over the next four weeks, I’ll be writing a weekly guest column for TVO’s The Agenda about how we create a more equitable and prosperous society. My first post was...

Why I think Harper is happy about BC’s election result

Posted at 8:15 on May 16, 2013 by Warren
Because his team won, that’s why.  From my pal Mertl: “The B.C. Liberals are a free-enterprise coalition of federal Liberal and Conservative supporters. Clark hails from the Liberal wing but got impressive support from federal Tories, including former ministers Stockwell Day and Chuck Strahl. ...