From RossK, The Gazetteer, A New Market For A New White Powder “…it has become religion among conservatives to denounce regulation, saying it stifles business and hinders economic growth. But consider: At the turn of the last century, America was as riddled with scam artists as China is today. Snake
Continue readingScripturient: Blog & Commentary: The Terrier Trials
Dogs. I love dogs. I’d have a dozen of them, if I could. But dogs are as different in personality as we are. Not all dogs are a good fit with other dogs, or even with people. Or with cats. And I love cats as much, if not more, than
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Corroboration absent and judgment set aside
Anten v. Bhalerao, 2013 ONCA 499 uses the concept of corroboration to set aside a finding of incapacity. The testimony of a witness is said to be corroborated when it is shown to correspond with the representation of some other witness, or to comport with some facts otherwise known or
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Halifax: speaking at the International Association of Fire Fighters Conference
I like these guys! They gave me standing O and bought every available copy of Fight The Right! I’m in the mood to run for office, now!
Continue readingLet Freedom Rain II: Postmedia: Hiring of Chrystia Freeland validates right wing view of media as "one gigantic anti-Conservative cabal"
Marc Weisblott pens the crux of right-wing paranoia and self-deception when it comes to Canada’s media (emphasis mine). The view that much of Canadian journalism is one gigantic anti-Conservative cabal — which the Sun News Network has branded “The Media Party” — was further validated as the Globe and Mail
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: The Red Wings Fiddle While Detroit Burns
The new iconic photo of post-crash Detroit. Listen, can you hear the footsteps of Robocop? We can’t really blame just the Red Wings. We have to blame the Tigers and the Lions too, but really the 1% who own them. Detroit is bankrupt. Services will be privatized to privateer leeches.
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: SHAME: Toronto Plaza Hotel disparages striking workers as ‘animals’
The Toronto Plaza Hotel has branded its predominantly visible minority women employees as “animals” for fighting to protect their modest pay and benefits. The post SHAME: Toronto Plaza Hotel disparages striking workers as ‘animals’ appeared first on The Canadian Progressive.
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Coming Soon, Your Eyes on the World
Astronaut Chris Hadfield reconnected countless millions of people to the wonders of space. His space station performance of the David Bowie classic “Space Oddity” has racked up more than 17-million hits on YouTube since its release two months ago. Now two Vancouver brothers have come up with a venture to
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: What’s Old Is New Again. The Return of the Workhouse.
Stephen Harper has a prison fetish. Despite steady declines in crime rates in Canada over the past four decades, Steve is hell bent on building new prisons. We like to mock him for this but maybe we shouldn’t be so quick to dismiss it as the product of a whacked-out
Continue readingLisaKirbie.com: Ottawa South PCPO candidate Matt Young anti-choice?
Matt Young has refused to publicly state a position on abortion. When he was questioned on CFRA Young said that abortion is a federal issue and refused to comment. It seems that someone should give young Matt a civics lesson because the provincial government is responsible for funding abortion services. And someone should
Continue readingScripturient: Blog & Commentary: Hell 2.2
Might be time to recap my reasons for writing this series. New readers could get confused about the content in the Hell posts, of which this is the fourth. They’re all the result of a convergence of several recent themes and activities in my life; a lot of which have
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Deference to findings of fact
Barclays Bank PLC v. Devonshire Trust, 2013 ONCA 494: [90] Second, findings of fact by the trial judge attract deference on appeal and are only reviewable by this court if they reveal palpable and overriding error: Waxman v. Waxman (2004), 186 O.A.C. 201 (C.A.), at para. 291. This standard applies to all factual
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Thank God
I mean it, too: thank God.
Continue readingCanadian Dimension | Articles: What was Former Prime Minister Paul Martin Thinking?
As an Indigenous woman I have been exposed to the atrocities of genocide through sex-discrimination and through the denial of land and resources. I continue to live with these genocidal policies and laws today and I work on the issues daily in the work I do with my section 15
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: On Liberty and Death
One of the reasons I advocate for restrictions on personal freedom as a means to save our species from extinction is that I need my own behaviours to be externally regulated! Intellectually, I can assess what I need from what I want – I think better than most even. I’m
Continue readingLeDaro: Millions of Brazilians show up to greet Pope Francis
This pope is quite an improvement on his predecessor. Here are millions of people who believe in the Pope and religion despite that Catholic Church has troubled past and those troubles are not over yet. Now these people feel happiness and satisfaction. It gives them some meaning and purpose in
Continue readingA BCer in Toronto: On enemies lists, and what our mothers would say
The brouhaha over the revelation that the Prime Minister’s Office prepared enemies lists has died down somewhat, although former Harper cabinet minister Monte Solberg weighed back in this weekend with a rather weak defense of the government you and I both pay for making enemies lists of its own citizens:
Continue readingLeDaro: Mayor Rob Ford very angry
Maybe he smoked too much Marijuana. 🙂
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: The summer skater surfaces.
Babel heard from its boy MP the other day. Hockey Night is coming up. This is when the Member of Parliament’s staff and friends throw a fund-raiser for the local hospital and we all pay for it. We probably pay far more than is raised for the hospital but we
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