Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Tuesday, May 14, 2013: Employee vs. Independent Contractor: The Test Refined – Mondaq News Alerts (registration) The Census And Your Privacy: The Courts Speak 5 Ways Family Law Attorneys Use Social Media in Court Embattled former Windsor law
Continue readingThings Are Good: Worldviews Conference Looks at Media and Education
Universities and colleges do a lot of research and sometimes their findings can make a large difference on the world around us. Unfortunately, it can be hard to get the media to represent what the research actually means and how the media can best work with academics to ensure that
Continue readingChadwick's Blog & Commentary: Quackery and Big Bucks Infect Health Canada
Health Canada has allowed an increasing number of useless “alternative” healthcare (alternative TO healthcare in most cases) products to be sold in Canada over the last decade, despite the lack of proper (or in some cases, any) research data to … Continue reading →
Continue readingRecreating Eden: Do You Really Need a Car? Seems That Not All Younger Folk This So.
When I grew up in Southern California, getting a driver’s license was a rite of passage. I actually got mine before I was 16, and Lee didn’t even ask me out when we were at Berkeley until he could take me some place in a car (where that was is
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Citizens, Not Consumers
Natalie Brender writes in The Toronto Star that, if disasters such as the factory collapse in Bangladesh are to be avoided in the future, we are going to have to stop acting as consumers and start acting as citizens. Private initiatives by non governmental agencies aren’t enough: As usual, the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Like the Earth? Thank a Black Hole
I’ll admit it, I’m a sucker for popular astronomy shows. How amazingly small and insignificant our place is in the Universe is always humbles me when I am reminded of the fact. It is a humility I wish the religious minded among us could understand, instead of wasting time and
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: More From Our Friends at Canadians Rallying To Unseat Stephen Harper
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Continue readingWarren Kinsella: If you are reading this, I am dead
You want a lede? This is a lede. Wow. If you are reading this, I am dead. How’s that for a lead? Guarantees you read on, at least for a bit. When the Sun’s George Gross died suddenly in March 2008, at age 85, there were few of his contemporaries left
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: The Tide Has Turned
It has begun. Labrador 2013. General Election 2015. PM Trudeau appoints me to Senate, 2016. He also appoints my wife, and gives us two seats near the aisle for bathroom breaks. We eat free at the Senate cafeteria (when you’re a Senator you get a card), and sleep in the
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Toronto Rabbis Denounce Pam Geller
Excerpts from Toronto Board of Rabbis statement: The Toronto Board of Rabbis (TBR) expresses its profound disappointment that a local Jewish organization has extended an invitation to Pamela Geller, a blogger who is known for her extreme criticism of Muslims in language that is intended to shock and ridicule. The
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Labrador speaks – and rejects Conservative tactics
Prime Minister Harper called Peter Penashue the greatest MP representative Labrador has ever had. Cabinet Ministers went into that riding (though notably not Harper) declaring that a re-elected Penashue would continue to give Labrador influence – while darkly hinting a Liberal win would not. Labrador voters rejected those claims, as
Continue readingThe Happy Wanderer: BC Election Prediction and Hopes.
It seems the easy victory the NDP were hoping for was all but swept away after the leadership debate. Granted the NDP are still 7% on average ahead of their closes rivals the Liberal party of British Columbia. It actually peculiar when you think about it that most of the recent provincial elections we
Continue readingThe Happy Wanderer: BC Election Prediction and Hopes.
It seems the easy victory the NDP were hoping for was all but swept away after the leadership debate. Granted the NDP are still 7% on average ahead of their closes rivals the Liberal party of British Columbia. It actually peculiar w…
Continue readingThe Happy Wanderer: BC Election Prediction and Hopes.
It seems the easy victory the NDP were hoping for was all but swept away after the leadership debate. Granted the NDP are still 7% on average ahead of their closes rivals the Liberal party of British Columbia. It actually peculiar when you think about it that most of the recent provincial elections we
Continue reading350 or bust: Courage Is Contagious
“What are we waiting for?…There is no passion to be found insettling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living…Standing idly by in the face of injustice is unthinkable…” Today’s TED talk Tuesday on 350orbust features lawyer and human rights activist Jennifer Robinson speaking
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Guts
I don’t watch her movies, but wow: Angelina Jolie has guts.
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: The $150K Communications Audit #nlpoli
Poor Jerome Kennedy. They sent him out today to explain to reporters what the government got for its $150,000 audit by Fleishman-Hillard in later 2011. Kennedy had a hard time explaining it. He went all over the mass of talking points floating around in his head. he said – without
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Leaf Nation and the Flight of the Cons
Well it was quite a scene in the old neighbourhood last night.Thousands of members of the Leaf Nation cheering on their team outside the Air Canada Centre.And the crowd was so excited for the first time in my life I hoped the Leafs would win.And I was sad when it
Continue readingAlberta Diary: Democracy, Alberta-style: Voters can have any policy they want, as long as it’s Conservative
The Alberta government bargaining team on their way to talks with the Alberta Teachers Association in their Model-T, coloured black. Actual Alberta labour relations specialists may not appear exactly as illustrated. Below: Education Minister Jeff Johnson and industrialist Henry Ford. In Alberta, it appears you now have more power as
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