Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Monday, May 6, 2013: Katz v. McNevin – Non-Lawyer Representation in Family Matters Why the Billable Hour Endures Most Canadian sex assault victims have little faith in justice system, survey says Dating website for Canadian prisoners eliminates the
Continue readingA Different Point of View....: Petitions next to useless in campaign to defend CBC
At least half-a-dozen petitions aimed at stopping Stephen Harper from taking control of the CBC are buzzing around the Internet. Pressure groups are putting a lot of effort into this campaign, but the question is – does sending petitions to Ottawa have any effect on the Conservatives. Are they just
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: My Wife On Justin In His Shorts
This is a kind of a guest post from my better half, adapted from a conversation we had earlier upon seeing the LPC message from Justin Trudeau in his khaki T and cargo shorts:You want to counter the whole idea that Justin is the son of wealth. So you put
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Hi, I’m Justin from Student Lawn Care services, and have I got a deal for you!
Dude, yellow shorts? Seriously? Sigh. If nothing else, I predict the 2015 election campaign will hang more on visuals more than any other in our nation’s proud history. (Oh, and advisors? Advise. Don’t enable.)
Continue readingLisaKirbie.com: What’s Andrea going to do?
If she supports the Liberal budget, she’s not going to have another chance to defeat the government before Christmas, I’d wager. If she supports the Liberal budget, the PC party is going to crucify them. Saying that by supporting the Wynne budget, she’s supporting scandal and waste, etc. (Expect lots
Continue readingChadwick's Blog & Commentary: Mastery: Self Help or Just Opinion?
Robert Greene’s new book has me somewhat flummoxed. It’s not at all like his previous books. The other books of his I have were all ‘meta’ books – books about what others thought on various subjects: power, leadership, war, seduction, … Continue reading →
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Silver Lining
Now that the weather has markedly and rather consistently improved over the past week in my part of Ontario, yard work beckons, so for now I offer this perceptive nugget from a Star reader, who sees some benefit to the Harper regime’s estrangement from the United Nations: Canada not up
Continue readingthe disgruntled democrat: My Democratic Dreams Were Shattered by Those Who Pilfer the Public Purse in Quebec
Apparently, what I want, I can’t have. I would like to live in a democratic state where I could participate meaningfully in the political decisions to be made. Living in Quebec, however, the most corrupt province or state in North America, my democratic dreams are just that, wishful thinking totally
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: There Is No Laser Removal For That – Your Digital Tattoo
Yet another reminder about the permanence of your digital comings and goings. Some of the reasons mentioned here are why I choose to blog under a pseudonym 🙂 Filed under: Internet, Technology and Computers Tagged: idenity protection, Online Presence, the interwebs
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Pontification From The Pompous
Conrad Black — that great defender of the Common Man — argued in Saturday’s National Post that public service unions are a public plague. He was defending the Harper government’s decision to dictate labour policy at the CBC, Canada Post and Via Rail. The solution to public service strikes is
Continue readingwmtc: and we’re off
Today we’re packing and giving final instructions to our friend and dogsitter, the divine Essie Ash, and tonight we fly to London. In London, we’ll see R, who we know from our Brooklyn days, and who we haven’t seen in nearly 15 years, and Mara (of Abortion Support Network fame),
Continue readingknitnut.net: Junk TV in a Hotel Room
I was in Toronto last week for a conference on HIV, pregnancy and mothering. It was an excellent conference, very interesting, with a good mix of researchers, HIV+ mothers, and frontline workers. There were even a few babies, and a toddler who took his mom’s cell phone, placed it on
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: Forgotten Deities: Flaccidus, The Roman God of Engineers
Ancient woodcut of a rooster, the favored form of sacrifice to the Roman god, Flaccidus. Flaccidus was a god revered during the time of the Roman Republic. Flaccidus was a kind of angry god, but not in the Mars I’m-going-to-stab-you-with-a-spear … Continue reading →
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Adult Autism Care in New Brunswick: An Open Letter to Premier David Alward
May 6, 2013 Honourable Premier David Alward Respected Cabinet Ministers and Party Leaders Dear Premier Alward I am the Acting President of the Autism Society New Brunswick and a parent that was involved, with many other parents, in the advocacy that led to the establishment of the UNB-CEL autism
Continue readingTrashy's World: Depressing that the new OLP Education Minister…
… is confirming her support for the Ontario’s wasteful and discriminatory duplicate school board system. If there is an election over the Budget, my vote for the Ontario Greens – the only party to say that the system needs a second look – is a lock! (2) Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Ontario NDP gets ‘competing’ advice on Ontario Budget
Ontario NDP Leader Andrea Horwath has a decision to make soon on whether or not to support the Ontario Liberal government’s budget; failure to support it (or at least an actual vote against versus an abstain) plunges the province back into an election campaign. She’s been given competing advice on
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: 9 per cent of you are fake
…well, over on Twitter, anyway. So sayeth this here Twitter app, which is as existential as it is useless. More than a thousand of my just-about 12,000 followers are fakes! That hurts!
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Ezra Levant And All His Friends
From the Twitter “fake follower” check, which tells you how many of your twitter followers are real: So it looks like someone has been buying Ezra bulk followers. Anyway, compare this with the report you get for a real journalist–Canada’s sweetest little angel, Kady O’Malley: Or even Hairface, from Lethbridge: So
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Why separate? #nlpoli
Last week, the federal Auditor General pointed out many serious problems with the state of offshore search and rescue. Last week, the usual gang grabbed any microphone they could find to call – yet again – for everything from a provincial public inquiry into the state of search and rescue
Continue readingA Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: Pothole Problem Solved
click to enlarge This pothole has been around on Palmerston Square for a while. Recently someone anonymously filled it in with earth and planted flowers. Neighbourliness and creativity abound. Filed under: Fun
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