Assorted content to end your week. – On the Robocon front, Terry Milewski connects the dots between identification of voters as non-Con supporters and the deceptive robocalls that followed. Steven Chase and Daniel Leblanc discuss how Elections Canada figures to determine who placed the Cons’ fraudulent calls, while Glen McGregor
Continue readingWise Law Blog: 140Law – Legal Headlines for Friday, March 16, 2012
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Friday, March 16, 2012: Chief Justices of BC’s Three Courts Issue Joint Statement on Judicial Independence Bill C-377 – Crippling Canadian Unions Is Facebook part of your estate? States weigh laws to govern social media – Washington Post
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Oshawa’s waterfront
I disagree with the general premise — Oshawa is a pretty good place and there's lots to do if you look. But … the waterfront is a problem and an opportunity being lost: http://bit.ly/xA8xTm "As for the Oshawa waterfront; don't ask. Last month, when Conservative Finance Minister Jim Flaherty announced
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Ethical Oil Drops Da Bomb
Somebody is a genius. They even slip in a reference to the Vigna suit. Details on the video makers here.
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Bell empire to expand
Bell Canada has agreed to buy Montreal-based Astral Media for $3.38 billion, adding a number of cable and specialty TV channels and nearly 100 radio stations to its media empire.
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Facts implied by out of court statement may be hearsay
R. v. Baldree, 2012 ONCA 138 is an important decision holding hearsay may arise from statements implied by an out of court statement. This is something of a shift in Canadian law. Hearsay is an out of court statement adduced in court to prove its truth. Generally Canadian courts (unlike English courts) have
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Harper’s War On Government
Stephen Harper has invited comparisons with Richard Nixon ever since he came to Ottawa. Lawrence Martin has admitted that the genesis of his latest book, Harperland, came from Rick Pearlstein’s seminal study of the late president, Nixonland. Bob Rae, who used to deliver newspapers to Nixon, has also drawn the
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Big Telecom gets bigger: Bell announces its purchase of Astral Media
Today Bell announced that it’s getting bigger; it will soon be in control of Astral Media, and the cellphone, Internet, land-line services, radio stations, and television holdings that come with it. As they grow, companies like Bell and Rogers gain even more ability, not to mention incentive, to engage in
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Smoke From That Gun Is Turning Into An Overpowering Stench
Despite the Harper regime’s steadfast denials over involvement in the voter suppression crimes and their attempts to divert suspicion onto the Liberals and NDP, evidence is mounting suggesting their complicity in the felonies: An investigation by CBC News has turned up voters all over Canada who say the reason they
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Classical Music Interlude – Mahler Symphony No.3
In its final form, the work has six movements, grouped into two Parts: Kräftig. Entschieden (Strong and decisive) [D minor to F major] Tempo di Menuetto (In the tempo of a minuet) [A major] Comodo (Scherzando) (Comfortably, like a scherzo) [C minor to C major] Sehr langsam—Misterioso (Very slowly, mysteriously)
Continue readingPample the Moose: Robocalls and Voter identification – Department of the Bleeding Obivous
My Facebook and Twitter feeds are filled with variants of this CBC story noting that the people robocalled on election day as part of the effort to misdirect voters to phony polling stations were people who had previously received calls from Conservative campaigns in which they identified themselves as non-Conservative
Continue readingPample the Moose: Robocalls and Voter identification – Department of the Bleeding Obivous
My Facebook and Twitter feeds are filled with variants of this CBC story noting that the people robocalled on election day as part of the effort to misdirect voters to phony polling stations were people who had previously received calls from Conservati…
Continue readingPample the Moose: Robocalls and Voter identification – Department of the Bleeding Obivous
My Facebook and Twitter feeds are filled with variants of this CBC story noting that the people robocalled on election day as part of the effort to misdirect voters to phony polling stations were people who had previously received calls from Conservative campaigns in which they identified themselves as non-Conservative
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ConCalls: Still Not Enough Proof
I don’t care if hundreds of Canadians, with specific details, recordings, and corroborating stories (some reported to authorities almost a year before the crime became famous), confirm the Conservative Party is involved. It’s a Liberal smear! And when it’s shown the Liberals didn’t have anything to do with illegal robocalls
Continue reading350 or bust: Global Warming Debunked
Well, okay, maybe not so much debunked as, well, confirmed. Oops – it turns out we should still be worried, and working our butts off to preserve this wonderful world for our children and all the yet-to-be-born children. This video looks at four examples that clearly illustrate the impact of
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: March of the Angry, Fuming, Vengeful Penguins
Suzie loved penguins, ever since her first trip to the zoo. She’d tell her mother every night, “oh I wish I could see a funny, awkward, goofy penguin, again Mummy. I love them SO!” “One day we’ll go back to … Continue reading →
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: The Fruits Of Northern Gateway
CPoC: 30%, -16%LPoC: 20%, + 7%NDP: 40%, + 7% Meanwhile, the same poll contains a few provincial numbers as well: pipe-line sitter Christy Clark stands at 31%; the Socialist hordes, who have declared against Northern Gateway, hold a commanding 45% of popular support; and the far-right pro-pollution Zalmbies languish at 14%. Supporting Northern
Continue readingBC teachers to fight Bill 22
With the federal Conservatives trying to destroy unions and bully working men and women, the BC Liberals are following suit with teachers. Unlike Air Canada employees, BC’s teachers are not going to take this one lying down. The bill, which will become law by Saturday, orders a six-month cooling-off period
Continue readingLike porn? You won’t like a Santorum presidency.
In another sign just how dangerous to freedom and the American way Rick Santorum really is, this statement from the presidential contender should send chills down one’s spine. Current federal “obscenity” laws prohibit distribution of hardcore (obscene) pornography on the Internet, on cable/satellite TV, on hotel/motel TV, in retail shops
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Nova Scotia would get Churchill Falls power for free #nlpoli
If you’ve been following the ongoing Muskrat Falls saga, you will recall that energy analyst Tom Adams raised some questions a couple of months ago about whether or not Muskrat Falls could actually produce the power Nalcor and the provincial government claimed. The problem basically came down to this: January
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