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Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: A submission to the National Energy Board.
Submission A51494: Commenting on Enbridge Pipelines Inc. Line 9B Reversal and Line 9 Capacity Expansion Project. According to the National Energy Board’s stated purpose, it is to promote safety and security, environmental protection and efficient energy infrastructure and markets in the Canadian public interest… And on this basis alone, the
Continue readingCanadian Dimension | Articles: Lac-Mégantic: A Social and Ecological Tragedy
Québec has just experienced the most brutal ecological catastrophe of its history. On July 6, 2013, a train loaded with 72 cars carrying crude oil derailed during the night. It exploded in downtown Lac-Mégantic, a small municipality (pop. 6000) in the Eastern Townships. A series of explosions and a fire
Continue readingLeDaro: Moses and Ten Commandments
Did this really happen or is it one of those religious myths? There is no historical proof that Moses and Abraham existed.
Continue readingRecreating Eden: What I’m Doing Today: Reading Page Proofs!
The page proofs for my new short story collection, Desire Lines: Stories of Love and Geography have arrived from Oberon Press! Very interesting to go over the text after several months away from it. The pub date for the book itself is Nov. 1. There will be details about the
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Admission of inappropriate expert evidence may be harmless
R. v. Granada, 2013 ABCA 273 points out that expert evidence may be inadmissible but still not prejudicial. Generally expert evidence is excluded because it will be given too much weight and be prejudicial. But if the expert evidence is “unnecessary” (and so inadmissible) it may still be non-prejudicial if
Continue readingLeDaro: Bradley Manning: A hero or a traitor
I believe that all Bradley Manning did was to expose the atrocities committed by the Americans in Iraq. He is a whistle-blower. Instead of making accountable and punish those who committed these crimes in Iraq; including Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld who invaded Iraq on false pretences; Bradley Manning is being punished.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Thomas Walkom points out that while Stephen Harper managed to push the world in the wrong direction over the past few years, he may be missing the boat on where it’s headed: The Harper government’s failure is longer-term. It still operates under the
Continue readingWise Law Blog: 140 Law – Legal Headlines for Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Wednesday, July 31, 2013: Ex-client presumed dead after breaking into La. law firm and ‘shooting everything,’ partner says U.S. student abandoned in jail cell for 4 days without food, water gets $4 million Appeals court cans N.Y.C. soda
Continue readingOn Wrestling, Politics and Other Musings of the Mind's Eye: Fox News is the Best Thing that Could have Happened to Reza Aslan
The world-infamous Fox News, not needing to further prove how ultra-conservative, biased, xenophobic and anti-Islam they are, went on to further tarnish their ‘good’ (see disgraced) reputation by going after professor Reza Aslan, a Muslim, for his new book about the historical Jesus entitled Zealot: the Life and Times of
Continue readingOn Wrestling, Politics and Other Musings of the Mind's Eye: Fox News is the Best Thing that Could have Happened to Reza Aslan
The world-infamous Fox News, not needing to further prove how ultra-conservative, biased, xenophobic and anti-Islam they are, went on to further tarnish their ‘good’ (see disgraced) reputation by going after professor Reza Aslan, a Muslim, for his new book about the historical Jesus entitled Zealot: the Life and Times of
Continue readingOn Wrestling, Politics and Other Musings of the Mind's Eye: Fox News is the Best Thing that Could have Happened to Reza Aslan
The world-infamous Fox News, not needing to further prove how ultra-conservative, biased, xenophobic and anti-Islam they are, went on to further tarnish their ‘good’ (see disgraced) reputation by going after professor Reza Aslan, a Muslim, for his new …
Continue readingThe Progressive Right: All the Hilarious Hypocrite Holyday Memes in One Place! #pcpo #onpoli #HypocriteHolyday #PoorSteveRyan
Before Doug Holyday was officially parachuted in as the Etobicoke-Lakeshore Conservative candidate, we had Steve Ryan, affectionately known as Poor Steve Ryan. The guy found out by Twitter he was no longer the Etobicoke-Lakeshore candidate. Then, the moment everyone was waiting for – Doug Holyday was appointed the candidate for
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: The King Of Austerity
The damage Stephen Harper has done to his country is everywhere. Three years ago, at the G20 Summit, he touted Canada’s economic growth. But now that he has implemented his austerity agenda, things aren’t looking so good. The Canadian Press reports that Canada is no longer the fastest growing economy
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: The secret apology
Someone has lost a legal case to me. They have had to issue an apology. They are trying to keep the fact of that secret. It’s a rather existential bit of business, you might say. Stay tuned.
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Sammy Yatim Killing: The Spin Cycle Has Begun
There is no question that the police and their supporters are desperate to ‘change the channel’ from the murder of Sammy Yatim to the terrible pressures police officers face. As I noted in a blog posting last evening, that organ of the right, The Globe and Mail, started the process
Continue readingLeDaro: Lightening: Hair raising experience
Michael McQuilken, right, was 18 when he and his brother, Sean, 12, climbed California’s Moro Rock in 1975. The photo was used for years to warn about the dangers of pending lightning strikes. “We thought it was something funny.” But now, nearly 38 years later, McQuilken says he recalls that
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Inference in the absence of evidence an error
Drawing an inference in the absence of any direct evidence is a material error: 1250264 Ontario Inc. v. Pet Valu Canada Inc. 2013 ONCA 279, [2013] O.J. No. 2012, at para 7: [7] In my view, the motion judge erred in two material respects: drawing the inference in the absence
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The American Entitlement Paradox
It makes it easier to run a society when you can get the poor people to fight amongst themselves rather than organize against the real problem. Filed under: Politics Tagged: Class Warfare, funny-sad, US Society
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