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The title of this piece is an adaptation of the last line in this piece titled “What Gen Y needs to know to become leaders “. As you can imagine the irony was not lost upon me! After thinking about it for awhile I decided this fit in perfectly with

R. v. Parris, 2013 ONCA 515 holds: [44]       First, to establish first degree murder under s. 231(5)(e), the Crown must prove each of five essential elements beyond a reasonable doubt:                              i.        that the accused unlawfully confined or attempted to unlawfully confine the victim or another person;                             ii.        that the accused murdered the victim;                            iii.        that the accused

Chambers Estate v. Chambers, 2013 ONCA 511: [95]       The applications judge was fully alive to the legal principle that the court should not lightly interfere with a testator’s choice of the person to act as his or her estate trustee: Re Weil, [1961] O.R. 888 (C.A.), at p. 889.  Just as a court should remove

Coal industry executives ought to pay attention to the lead paint lawsuit currently happening in the California court system. Recently, a lawsuit was filed against the makers of lead paint, alleging that the industry knew about the toxicity of their product and yet still promoted it as “safe” to the

Nothing says “guilty” more than getting caught tampering with the evidence.   Will the defendant please rise?  Yes, Ms. Wallin, that’ll be you. Apparently, Senate expense-scandal auditors, Deloittes, believe the senator from Wadena tried to doctor some of her spending records.  The auditors’ report is expected to be made public tomorrow.

Let’s do the math.   You’re 83.  You just stood trial on 32-charges and were convicted of 31 of them, including eleven murders.  Even if you were given just one year for each of those murders you would have to reach 94 before you were released. According to Boston.com, Whitey Bulger

Alec Bruce’s column got me thinking – as it usually does. This time, he’s defending Baird for criticizing Putin’s record on brutal treatment of gays. It’s certainly reasonable that he should do so. But – I have trouble praising Baird for this one. Putin is certainly an unlovable wretch, obsessed

The conclusion to a piece published at iPolitics yesterday: The cancer of the surveillance state, which has metastasized since 9/11, is out of all proportion to any threat it was once designed to thwart. The decade of fear has turned into the industry of permanent fear. We once were intelligent