Here are the first leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012. If you opted to avoid technology over the holidays, here is your chance to get caught up!: Loopholes in law spark rise in illegal surrogacy deals – Law Timeshttp://bit.ly/d62xgF – Insghts from @fertilitylaw (S. Cohen) Fogler,
Continue readingCalgaryGrit: Most Viewed Posts of 2011
As 2012 dawns on us, a look back at the most viewed posts on this blog in 2011. While the federal election was a bad time to be a Liberal, it was a good time to be a Liberal blogger. 1. April 4th Seat Projections: A look back at a
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Iowa Nice?
A response to the conventional political media spin about Iowa…
Continue readingcentre of the universe: Sodium
I imagine Your face bathed in the diffuse orange glow of a sodium street lamp The curvature of your jawline casts sharp shadows You shrug into a light leather jacket Where are we? Where are we going? Your only answer … Continue reading →
Continue readingcentre of the universe: Sodium
I imagine Your face bathed in the diffuse orange glow of a sodium street lamp The curvature of your jawline casts sharp shadows You shrug into a light leather jacket Where are we? Where are we going? Your only answer … Continue reading →
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: More Good News For the Corporate Sector
While corporations continue the arduous task of union-busting and contract-gutting, their efforts are being amply rewarded. Not only has a beneficent and ideologically-driven Harper government cossetted them with a record-low tax rate, but the captains of industry who lead these voracious job-destroying entities are also prospering quite nicely thanks to
Continue readingSixty-two dollars in my pocket
Here I am back in Toronto after travelling to the Okanagan and then back to the Toronto airport to jump in the car and drive to Erie Pennsylvania to enjoy a fabulous suite for the night before heading onto Durham North Carolina. I flew back last night (after three weeks) with
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Things you really don’t (shouldn’t) think about… (A duty Poll)
This topic came up at supper, as the best and grossest conversations mostly do. How do you clean your posterior after finishing your business? As a stand and wiper, I assumed that my way was natural. I was surprised to learn that there are several different techniques popular in the
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Should the Canadian Media Make New Year’s Resolutions?
I watched Chris Matthew’s Hardball yesterday, where the media panel was asked about their New Year’s resolutions, speaking of them as a whole. Most gave the obvious. Invest in hard journalism, ask the tough questions, cover politics seriously and don’t get distracted by shiny objects. All important goals, but aren’t they
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Leadership 2012 Links and Policy Roundup 3
Assorted policy and punditry from the NDP leadership campaign. – On the policy front, it’s looking like time to give Nathan Cullen full credit for being well ahead of the pack with a well-rounded and detailed set of policies. I missed his democratic reform proposal in my last policy roundup
Continue reading"I don’t want to make black people’s lives better by giving them somebody else’s money"
The Republican field in the presidential race is becoming more and more transparent. By that I mean their racism, intransigence, ignorance, lack of ethical and moral clarity, is becoming harder and harder to hide. For Rick Santorum, his latest gaffe unveils how he truly feels about African Americans. It’s enlightening,
Continue readingThe Saga of Patrick Ross — Part the Third
To recap from here and here, we are reminded of the crippling, self-destructive idiocy of one Patrick Ross who: made up defamatory crap about me bragged about making up defamatory crap about me explicitly to ruin my reputation published that defamatory crap for month after month laughed uproariously when served
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: An ugly looking Caterpillar.
The big news down in this area the past few days – specifically in London – is that the big company Caterpillar decided to lock all of its employees out at its London based ElectroMotive plant. It is trying to force its employees there to take more then a 50%
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Paleo Artist Dan Varner
…has passed away suddenly. He specialized mostly in painting the ancient beasts that swam The Oceans Of Kansas (Western Interior Sea). If you ever find a copy of the book with the same name (by Mike Everhart; illustrated by Varner), by the way, get it. The prairies were once a far
Continue readingImpolitical: U.S. military to shrink
The lead story in the New York Times today is about the U.S. reducing its military budget by at least $450 billion over a decade, part of the agreement reached at the time of the debt ceiling extension. Leon Panetta, the Defence Secretary is to outline plans this week on
Continue readingThe Happy Wanderer: New Poll, and More!
A new poll by PPP shows that Ron Paul is still in the fight for Iowa and is currently at the top of the pack. Ron Paul has 20%, Romney 18%, and Rick Santorum 18%. Iowa there is a three way fight. I still maintain that Paul will win this
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: The question of democracy in Newfoundland and Labrador #cdnpoli #nlpoli
“A democracy only works really well,” according to Kathy Dunderdale, “when people are asking questions.” Opposition Leader Dwight Ball told a Western Star interviewer that “my job is to ask questions with substance…”. Not to be outdone in the spate of year-end interviews, New Democratic Party leader Lorraine Michael tied
Continue readingFending off leadership boredom
Brian Topp says that a boring leadership race could hurt the NDP, which explains why he’s been the only one to really go on the offensive against Dewar and Mulcair so far in a race that has been marked with “violent agreement.” John Baird defends the need for his fledgling Office of Religious Freedoms
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: "The drugs Canada is peddling"
Dr. David Schindler, University of Alberta “Every year that you can get away with lack of regulation, is a few billion more bucks in your pocket. After 40 years, I’m pretty sick of seeing this tactic fool people time after time. Maybe we all did just fall off a turnip
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