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Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Canucks Prospects- Scrimage and Interviews
There are those of us out here that are keeners and curious about the new guys, even during the ‘Dog Days’ of summer. So my friends for those who dig it. Check it out!
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Friday night blues blogging
This is Keb’ Mo’ covering Robert Johnson’s Kind Hearted Woman Blues. It seems like a good place to start (h/t to Moose at Classic Blues Videos). Tab Benoit hails from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He writes a lot of his own songs and I believe One Foot in the Bayou is
Continue readingMorton's Musings: How should judges approach self-represented litigants at trial?
Bird v Bird, 2013 SKQB 157 sets out a useful checklist for how judges should approach self-represented litigants at trial: 46) The Court went on to quote the guidelines established in Re F. [2001] FamCA 348, the Full Court of the Family Court of Australia, as follows:
Continue readingLet Freedom Rain II: Trayvon Martin, newly dead on the grass: a photo everyone should see
There’s been a boatload of controversy today over the brief airing on Trayvon’s lifeless body as he lay in his obviously high retail – almost preppy – clothes. Most of the grief today comes from the right who do not want you to know that Trayvon was not some thug,
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Check-Mate #ClimateChange
What’s utterly frustrating when discussing Climate Change with Deniers, is they don’t plan the big picture logically. More specifically, their plans can be shown to place civilization into extreme danger of ending [GAME OVER]. Perhaps because I grew up playing Chess, I’m familiar with the concept that no matter how
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Strip search must not be conducted as a matter of routine
R. v. McKay, 2013 ONCJ 298 holds: [68] Since the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision in R. v. Golden, supra, it has generally been accepted that when it is necessary to place a detainee in cells with other inmates, a strip search is usually necessary to ensure the protection of the detainee, other
Continue readingScripturient: Blog & Commentary: Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde
After reading the play by Shakespeare last week, I decided to tackle Chaucer’s epic 8,000-line poem about the Trojan lovers, Troilus and Cressida (or Criseyde as Chaucer writes it). It’s a long, somewhat meandering piece that begins, in the Online Medieval … Continue reading →
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: CPC Convention Rescheduled For Halloween Night
I can think of no date more appropriate.
Continue readingBob Broughton's Blog: A $40 billion bad idea in Nicaragua
Daniel Ortega, who holds the office of President of Nicaragua in defiance of Nicaragua’s Constitution, is championing a mega-project; a canal across the eastern part of Nicaragua that would provide an alternative to the Panama Canal. The estimated cost is $40 billion. My initial reaction, when I heard about this
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Lac-Mégantic and the Callousness of the Cons
As people in the shattered little town of Lac-Mégantic try to recover from the terrifying tragedy that struck their town.Try to come to terms with the fact that the bodies of many of their loved ones may never be found. As all over Canada people who live near railway lines wonder if
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden’s statement to human rights groups
by: Obert Madondo | Twitter: @Obiemad: WikiLeaks has posted NSA surveillance whistleblower Edward Snowden’s statement to human rights groups, issued earlier today at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport. Here’s the full text: Hello. My name is Ed Snowden. A little over one month ago, I had family, a home in paradise, and I lived in
Continue readingdaveberta.ca - Alberta politics: A new look. A work in progress.
TweetAfter three years with the same template, this week I decided to update the look of daveberta.ca. It is still a work in progress, but feedback is welcomed! Tweet
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Rhetorical questions to be avoided in jury charge
R. v. Williams, 2013 ONCA 477 holds: [8] We agree with the appellant that the trial judge’s earlier directions to the jury, when he was relating the evidence to the elements of first and second degree murder, lacked balance. We are particularly concerned with the trial judge’s use of rhetorical questions.
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: A communications network open to all Canadians would deliver real affordability and choice
It’s been a fairly positive few weeks for Canada’s long-suffering cell phone users, who pay some of the highest prices for some of the worst service in the industrialized world. First we saw the CRTC release a long-awaited set of new rules to help protect cell phone users. These new
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Murry Salby: Galileo? Bozo? Or P.T.Barnum?
“They laughed at Galileo … but they also laughed at Bozo the Clown” might be appled to Murry Salby, who until May was a Professor of Environmental Science at Australia’s Macquarie University (MU). P.T. Barnum might fit better, as Salby has a well-documented history of deception and financial chicanery that
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Ikea’s Union-Busting Lockout in Richmond, BC Reaches Two Months
Is Walmart Ikea’s labour relations mentor? Ikea, that family-friendly darling of home decor and Swedish innocence is trying to break its union, Teamsters Local 213. They have locked out their Richmond, BC workers for two months now, while deciding to bargain in reverse: Start with a pathetic offer, then as
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: What Do Toronto, Calgary and Angkor Wat Have in Common?
What do Toronto and Calgary have to do with the mysterious Cambodian city of Angkor Wat? More, perhaps, than we would care to imagine. The city of Angkor Wat, Cambodia, was a vibrant, growing metropolis in the late 17th century. Angkor was the New York, Paris or Rome of its
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Air Canada should cancel request for Transport Canada exemption: CUPE
by: CUPE | Press Release: Ottawa, July 12, 2013 – As more details emerge following Asiana flight 214’s tragic crash in San Francisco on Saturday July 6th, CUPE flight attendants are hoping that Air Canada learns from the flight attendant ratio on the airplane at the time of the accident. The
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