What’s the deal with the Harper Cons these days and their attitude toward Canadian law? Not to mention how incompetent are they at handling money.The two Con MPs are describing their refusal to submit legal election account statements to Elections Canada as an “accounting dispute” — yeah, just like Mike
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: A Word From The Mound Of Sound
The Mound of Sound (a.k.a. The Disaffected Lib) is back from his hiatus, and he left a comment on my earlier post suggesting how newspapers should deal with weather-related disasters. Because of the length of his response, and because I want to bring that response to a wider audience than
Continue readingWalking Turcot Yards: Marilyn Monroe Reading Ulysses
A great picture. And she appears to be reading the last page which is, quite awesome!
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Gone but not fogotten. He was Montreal’s Emperor Norton.
Continue readingArt Threat: The Art & Money Project
It’s no secret that money rules our lives. I think what we’re now seeing is really the final and most ruthless stage of the integration of art and creativity into the capitalist market or, in other words, the final stages of art’s subordination to money. But I think that almost
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Where offence named and statutory section listed conflict should a certificate of offence be quashed on ex parte trial? Leave granted by OCA
R. v. Farah, 2013 ONCA 362 dealt with a situation where a provincial offences certificate of offence named one offence but referred to a statutory provision for another offence. The Court of Appeal granted leave to consider whether such certificate ought to be quashed as irregular on as ex parte trial: [23] This case
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 6098…Guns For The People
I kid you not 24 years ago today I changed my stance on gun control. This is why. Balance. WFDS
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 6097…10 Cent Beer Night
Limit six per purchase. Whatever could go wrong? Everything as it turned out on this night back in ’74. Cleveland Stadium the place for the Indians versus the Texas Rangers. It was a riot. A real riot. An example of a fan who may have crossed some sort of line
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ConCalls: Yep, Still Defrauded #RoboCon
*Canada: 0 Days Without Election Fraud* You can start at the beginning in great detail… Or you can jump to the end of the beginning. You can draw conclusions so simple a child, or a computer scientist could make them. I’m sure the corporate media will tell us if there’s
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Turkish Spring: Another take on events of May 31
Claire Belinski Claire Berlinski, writing in the City Journal in the wee hours of the morning of May 31, captured her thoughts about the beginnings of the Turkish unrest: But as news of the injuries and deaths spread by word of mouth, and particularly as photos and videos of the
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Under what circumstances should an action be dismissed by the court following a status hearing?
Faris v. Eftimovski, 2013 ONCA 360 holds that on a status hearing rule 48.14(13) says that the onus is on the plaintiff to demonstrate why the action should not be dismissed for delay. The test requires the plaintiff to demonstrate that there was an acceptable explanation for the delay and establish that, if the
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Off track betting #nlpoli
That big, ginormous phone-banging-up, trade dispute thingy with evil Ottawa? So not happening any more. "We seem to be back on track. We have alignment," Premier Kathy Dunderdale told reporters on Tuesday at an event announcing fitness grants to community groups. (Read more…)
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Update from Steve: Notes from my meeting with Paradis
The call was brief, about 15 minutes, and I didn’t get clear answers to many of the questions posed, but here are my notes from the meeting. Paradis started by saying that today he sent a clear message to the market. He said he hopes they “smell the coffee”, which
Continue readingBuckdog: Conservative MP Devinder Shory And 16 Other Lawyers Bailed Out By Alta Lawyers Insurance Assc. in Alleged Fraud Case With BMO
Corruption in Canada ‘s Conservative government is being disclosed so fast and furious at the moment, that some of the smaller cases are being overshadowed by the larger Senate scandal. Here’s another example of how some elected Conservative MP’s have been operating: “The Bank of Montreal has settled with all
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: When a satirical $90,000 Sen. Duffy bill enraged the Bank of Canada
By: Obert Madondo Satirical Duffy $90,000 Bill Veteran B.C. newspaper satirist Dan Murphy engaged in a little good old-fashioned Canadian political satire when he created a fake $90,000 bill starring scandal-plagued Sen. Mike Duffy. The Bank of Canada wants us to believe a serious crime has been committed here, according to Times Colonist.
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: China Stakes Its Claim to the Arctic
It’s our fault if we don’t listen for China has been loud and clear that it considers it is entitled to a powerful, potentially military presence in the Arctic and a stake in Arctic ocean resources. To date, China’s economic ambitions in the Arctic have been largely thwarted by Arctic
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Bike Derangement Syndrome at Wall Street Journal
If you’re suffering from low blood pressure, I have the treatment: WSJ hack interviews an editorial board nutcase Dorothy who says among other things: “Look, I represent the majority of citizens.” She’s “appalled” that bike sharing has happened in NYC. “Best neighbourhoods are begrimed by these blazing blue CitiBank bikes.”
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: What Do We Do About Those Pesky, Apathetic Non-Voters?
I have heard lots of people blaming the following people for why we didn’t get a positive change in government in BC three weeks ago: apathetic, nihilistic young people apathetic people who don’t follow politics apathetic people who simply don’t vote bad people who generally don’t care about a better
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: What Happened in British Columbia
As my friend wrote following the NDP’s surprise election loss 3 weeks ago, for the next four years, there will be: NO public inquiry into the BC Rail and BC Hydro scandals; NO comprehensive public Environmental-Economic Impact Assessment for major resource development projects (pipelines, mines, fracking, etc.); NO restoration and
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