Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Tuesday, February 28, 2012: Canada’s copyright bill: Changes urged as hearings begin Law Commission of Ontario calls for evaluation of family law information centres- Canadian Lawyer Magazine BP oil spill trial postponed to allow more time for settlement
Continue readingBlunt Objects: What do Quebec and the GOP Primary Have in Common?
There seems to be a new frontrunner every week. Well, maybe that’s not exactly what’s happening in Quebec, and no longer now with the GOP primary as conservative voters line up behind Rick “Don’t Go To College Kids” Santorum, but the situation is eerily similar. Like Newt Gingrich or Rick
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Global: Answers about the Copyright Modernization Act
We’ve been putting most of our effort into stopping online spying lately, but it’s just one of a handful of threats to the Internet on the horizon. Another is what we’re calling the “Internet Lockdown”: initiatives that put individual citizens’ rights last, such as Bill C-11, ACTA, TPP, and the
Continue reading350 or bust: We’ve Been Messin’ Where We Shouldn’t Have Been A-Messin’
Climate change, You Scary: In which Hank Green details the five scariest things that will likely happen because of climate change. * Find the Sci Show: Where the science goes on Facebook or follow them on Twitter. Want to know what to do? Go to: Citizens Climate Lobby to join
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: A Telling Difference
Bob Rae stood up in the House yesterday to announce that one of the members of the Liberal research staff — Adam Carroll — was responsible for the Twitter account which savaged Public Safety Minister Vic Toews: “I want to offer to the minister my personal apology to him,” Rae
Continue readingTrashy's World: Google freaks me out sometimes…
Check it – I receive ONE email in French and with the word “retraite” in the subject line (retirement, en anglais)… and look at the ad… Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Erin notes that the revenue gap being used as an excuse to demand massive cuts in Ontario is nearly entirely closed with a more plausible set of underlying assumptions and projections – and that’s without taking the look at revenue which was
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: “My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: / Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!
The face of unrepentant smarm: Recommend this Post
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: ‘Losing’ the World:American Decline in Perspective
Seeing history from a different perspective is often an enlightening experience. Noam Chomsky is a excellent guide to a historical narrative that makes sense and fits the facts of the situation, as opposed to what we are told by approved sources. It is a long read, somehow sadly classified as
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Leadership 2012 Candidate Analysis – Brian Topp
As promised, let’s take a look at each of the NDP’s leadership candidates through the lens of my three basic considerations – starting in reverse alphabetical order with Brian Topp. 1. What direction will he set for the NDP? Topp has been more clear than any other candidate in the
Continue readingArt Threat: Portraits of a young girl influenced by the mainstream – Photographs by Jessica Manley
Currently a senior at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, Jessica Manleybegan the project “Melissa” six years ago while still a high school student. She began working with her younger sister, Melissa, to explore the way media influences the understanding of ‘normal’ in young girls, and how
Continue readingLong-time Conservative operative Keith Beardsley demonizes social media
Shorter Keith Beardsley: Social media is full of dirty fucking hippies who are not nice to Conservatives. The longer version: you know what I find the most egregious about our Conservative-dominated media? It’s the pearl clutching of its older, more established journalists and op-ed political operatives when it comes to social
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: Censorship in Canada, 2010-2011
Think censorship doesn’t happen in Canada? It does, though rarely. There are, however, many attempts at censorship, and it is something we have to be on guard for at all times. It seems that in Canada, our politeness gene runs … Continue reading →
Continue readingImpolitical: RCMP on the robocalls case
The lead story on the CTV national news last night was this: “RCMP investigates voter fraud allegations.” Interesting video report at the link where, among other things, a friend of former Conservative staffer Michael Sona is quoted. Yesterday Postmedia had details on a search warrant issued in November requiring production
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: A Robocon Tidbit
However, a source has told CTV that Sona is being “thrown under the bus” as he is not “tech savvy” and “couldn’t have done the robocalls on his own.” I am assuming that we all know who Mike Sona is by now.
Continue readingTrashy's World: Here is a fairly complete…
… annotated list of Harperite misdeeds, lies, slushfunds and illegal activities over the past while. Reads like news headlines from, oh, a Central American banana republic. Or maybe Italy. Nicely done, Lawrence Martin. Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Jesse Kline: Dalton McGuinty Should Let Alberta Steal Ontario Jobs
In a more efficient economy, people would be moving westward to fill jobs. But Mr. McGuinty’s solution has always been to subsidize dying industries, a process which necessitates taking capital away from more productive uses. Perhaps that lesson was taught in Economics 102 — a course the Ontario Liberals would
Continue readingPower & Politics question of the day: "Does ‘Vikileaks’ undermine Liberal credibility on robocalls?" When will this false equivalence end?
CK of Sister Sage’s Musings has a wonderful post asking why Bob Rae apologized for Vikileaks. Good question but what hit me hardest about the post was this gem regarding a poll question from Evan Solomon’s Power & Politics. The question asks: “Does ‘Vikileaks’ undermine Liberal credibility on robocalls?” What? That
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Danny and Jerome! on Muskrat Falls financials #nlpoli
Former member of the House of Assembly and Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro director Danny Dumaresque made the news over the weekend with a claim that he had a document showing that the provincial energy corporation had no luck raising $4 billion in the money markets. On Monday natural resources minister
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