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Okay, it’s not like it’s an epidemic but, just sayin’.  Our warming climate is manifesting in the northern migration of all manner of lifeforms – mammals, fish, birds, insects and diseases. This week we feature N. Fowleri or Naegleria fowleri.   It’s an insidious little bugger, an amoeba that has

Warren Buffett – the fourth richest man on the planet and major campaign contributor to President Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012 – may soon get a whole lot richer. That’s because he just bought over half a billion bucks worth of Suncor Energy stock: $524 million in the second quarter

Any guesses what former Conservative senate leader Marjorie Lebreton plans to do with her 30s-something hairpiece when she leaves politics?  Maybe it should be bequeathed to the public archives.  Or maybe it should be institutionalized and handed down as a badge of office to be worn by future Conservative senate

Lee v. 1435375 Ontario Ltd., 2013 ONCA 516: [37]       The formation of a legally binding contract requires a meeting of the minds –consensus ad idem. When the meeting of the minds is based on a common error as to some fundamental fact, the parties’ agreement, viewed objectively, is “robbed of all efficacy”: Ron Ghitter Property Consultants,

Fascism and the will of the majority often go hand in hand.  Mussolini’s Italy and Hitler’s Germany are the best examples.  The fascists may not rise to power on majority support but the majority come to embrace and support them once they have seized or consolidated power. Now it’s the

R. v. Massara, 2013 ONCA 519:   [15]       Mr. Massara takes issue with the fairness of the proceeding on the motion before the appeal court judge and with the disposition. The Provincial Offences Court, and the Ontario Court of Justice to which appeals go from that court, are the face

Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Friday, August 16, 2013: NSA broke privacy rules thousands of times per year, audit finds (Washington Post) Romanian princess indicted in northwestern U.S. cockfighting ring Lesbian couple refused wedding cake files state discrimination complaint (Oregonian) What the Paula

This is a guest post by Clint Robertson. A new study found that 25 states had adopted revenue decoupling for at least one natural gas or electric utility by December 2012. In total, 24 electric and 49 natural gas utilities participate in decoupling according to the report by the American

[Jeremy Scahill. Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield. New York: Nation Books, 2013.] Though the word “Canada” appears only a handful of times in the book and is not even in the index, this is a book about Canada’s wars in the last dozen years. It is a book