How Many Horses Can One Ownership Group Ride?

AllTheInfluenceThatFits HedgingAllTheBetsVille Historically, Mr. Patrick Kinsella mostly backs winners. Both at the track, as Sean Holman noted some time ago…. “…Patrick Kinsella has become a member of the esquestrian classes. According to our operatives, Mr. Kinsella (who runs a communications firm) claimed a horse – C J Come Home –

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QP: Profane Outbursts

In what is reputed to be the last QP before the House rises (though we may not know for sure until the end of the day), tempers were frayed, and there was a restless energy of MPs eager to flee to the airport for flights home. Nycole Turmel kicked off

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Morton's Musings: Entrapment

R. v. Bayat, 2011 ONCA 778, a child luring case, deals with the law on entrapment.  A helpful analysis of the law follows:   [15]         In Mack, Lamer J. explained the basis for entrapment in these terms at p. 956: I take this statement [from R. v. Amato, [1982] 2 S.C.R. 418] to mean that the police are

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