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Continue readingWise Law Blog: 140 Law – Legal Headlines for Thursday, March 22, 2012
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Thursday, March 22, 2012: Graham James sentence may be appealed Ontario court to rule Monday on prostitution laws Lawyers Practicing Primarily in New York Must Work for Attorney-Owned Firms, Ethics Opinion Says Charges laid against Chevron and Transocean
Continue readingSpring quiz
Links at the end. No peeking. DawgPoints for commenters who are brave enough to post guesses without. Who wrote these descriptions and about whom?* He did every telephone call in a booming Rush Limbaugh voice as if he were on the radio—even when he was just ordering pizza or complaining
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: All the news that fits the frame #nlpoli
With a couple of discussions about the media and how it covers news, no regular readers of the various scribbles in this province would be surprised to find a column on the same subject from the Telegram’s Peter Jackson. Go read it. While you may disagree with Peter from time
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: The Science of Truthiness: Why Conservatives Deny Global Warming
Final Cover.png These are notes for remarks that Chris Mooney gave recently at the Tucson Festival of Books, where he was asked to talk about his new book on a panel entitled “Will the Planet Survive the Age of Humans?” Video of the panel is currently available from C-SPAN here. Please note:
Continue readingCalgaryGrit: This Week in Alberta – The Wheels on the Bus
With an Alberta election call possible as soon as next week, the province is gearing up for the campaign. Of course, rather than talk of scandals or policies, most of the attention this week was on the Wildrose Party’s unfortunately designed campaign bus wrap. Which prompted this tongue and cheek
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: CIRA: We are all the stakeholders
By Byron Holland for CIRA On February 27, 2012 CIRA hosted a unique meeting on the future of the Internet in Canada. The Canadian Internet Forum (CIF) brought together leading Canadian and international Internet experts and more than 400 interested citizens. Another 100 participated in an online forum CIRA hosted
Continue readingThings Are Good: Proposed Wooden Skyscraper
Yesterday we looked at making a key building material, cement, more green and today we’re looking at a skyscraper to be built out of wood. Wood is a much kinder material to the environment thanks to the fact that wood is renewable because it comes from trees. The idea may
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: A New Call For a Return to Progressive Taxation
I suppose one has to be of a certain age to remember that progressive taxation has been a mainstay, until fairly recently, of our taxation system. Little by little over the past two decades, probably starting with the introduction of the GST, that principle has been on the wane, to
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: While We Were Sleeping
Some pretty fundamental — and frightening — changes have gone on while we were sleeping. The voter suppression scandal is only the latest in a long list of abuses which have flourished under Stephen Harper. Michael Harris catalogues them: How quickly and efficiently Canadian democracy has been soundproofed. By turning
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Grappling Ignorance – A Proportional Proposal
Because of strong unionization and higher regard for education in Canada teachers make a better living than those in the United States. However, the points GI brings up still apply to Canadian educators and should apply to Canadian politicians as well. Filed under: Education, Politics Tagged: Education, Grappling Ignorance,
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: Local man wins big after rolling up rim
LONDON, Ontario (The Skwib) — It started like any normal day, but after winning in Tim Horton’s “roll up the rim” contest, Neddie Bubbin’s life will never be the same. “I just can’t believe it,” Bubbin told The Skwib, after … Continue reading →
Continue reading350 or bust: Obama: It’s Time To End Subsidies To Big Oil
In President Obama’s address last week, he made it clear that it’s time America ends the $4 billion in annual subsidies to oil companies that are earning historic profits, and invests in new technologies. Prime Minister Harper, are you listening? In 2009 PM Harper promised to end subsidies to big
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Prostitution case Monday: who should decide social policy?
Whether the ancillary offences related to prostitution should be legalized is not really the issue. The question is who should decide these matters. We have a panel of truly brilliant legal minds considering social policy. The Court's training and strength doesn't rest on such matters. What words in a regulation
Continue readingTOM MULCAIR: FOR SURE
First, with all due respect to party elders, the NDP has been movingto the centre for decades, most rapidly over the last six or sevenyears. The idea that we must come together to protect threatened NDPvalues from Tom Mulcair is a bit rich. I’ve looked at the platformsof all of
Continue readingJAMES LAXER: TOM MULCAIR: FOR SURE
First, with all due respect to party elders, the NDP has been movingto the centre for decades, most rapidly over the last six or sevenyears. The idea that we must come together to protect threatened NDPvalues from Tom Mulcair is a bit rich. I’ve looked at the platformsof all of
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Maybe the Conservatives picked the wrong party/leader to attack with ads
A new poll is out – released last night from Environics. According to their numbers, the NDP is tied with the Conservatives for popular support: The survey by Environics Research Group provided to The Globe and Mail has the two parties at 30 per cent support among voters. That’s about
Continue readingPolitics Canada: DIY attack ads on Stephen Harper
You can tell in your gut when you see a good attack ad. The Conservatives know how to make a good attack ad, this is clear. It’s one of the few things, I would say, they are good at. I found an interesting site called “Attack Ad Generator”, might be
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Kathryn Marshall Demoted At Ethical Oil
The New head-shills for EO are Jordan Graham and Jamie Ellerton. Jamie is an ex-Kenney aide who also did time with Tim Hudak. So behind the scenes puppet master Ezra Levant is keeping things all in the Tory family. Jordan served as city councillor in Fredericton, New Brunswick and describes
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