Archive for December, 2007
Weakness for power
Dec. 26, CP: Canada–Limping into 2008
"When the year began, Harper’s Conservatives were sitting at 34 per cent in public opinion approval, according to Harris-Decima, just ahead of the Liberals at 31 per cent. The NDP was at 15 and the Green party at eight per cent.
As 2007 draws to a close, Harris-Decima’s rolling three-week averages […]
Passport fee
On the sentencing of Emmanuel Villarceau which happened back on Nov. 20, the Ottawa Citizen today: Passport fraud lands ex-public servant two-year prison term
"The court documents do not indicate how the people who obtained passports using falsified information came in contact with Mr. Villarceau, nor what Mr. Villarceau received for providing the passports."
Back on May […]
Early morning music
Here’s a Christmas nostalgia pill, a classic for certain people of a certain age; on YouTube, on vinyl at 33 RPM, the 1958 version of The Little Drummer Boy performed by The Harry Simeone Chorale.
Another nine miles
Rachel Marsden is back in the news again–National Post: Conservative pundit’s latest controversy. Another bad break-up. How bad? Involving the RCMP and national secrets and naked pictures and… what else? Oh, yeah, a pile of personal emails released to the public on her website. In 2005, I wrote a story about Ms. Marsden after she […]
Early morning music
This is a little nostalgia nugget I dug up for my father the other day at his request: The Merry Minuet by the Kingston Trio. It’s an old song–written in 1958 and recorded a year later–so I’m sure it’s irrelevant today.
The way forward
In considering the Alberta Human Rights panel’s [PDF] Lund/Boissoin decision, it just dawned on me that I’ve been looking at this thing the wrong way. I’ve been thinking of it as an individual rights thing, not a government-to-government power struggle. That decision’s revelation, written by panel chair Lori Andreachuk, is right near the end in […]
Your love, my right
When human rights compete, then they can’t by definition be universal
It’s International Human Rights Day, the 59th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations. I suppose I should spend the day in sorrowful contemplation of all of the wickedness in the world, but instead I find myself singing:
Oh baby, your […]
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