Each week, Wise Law Blog reviews recent decisions from the Ontario Court of Appeal. This week, commercial disputes were a theme, including a case that considered the age-old question, “who gets to keep the killer whales?”
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Continue reading…on the Ontario Election results.1) Folks weren’t that angry after all. The opposition here–as opposed to B.C.–to the HST was never more than muted. That was the first sign to those who were looking. The cost of Hydro as an e…
Continue readingA few thoughts from a fascinating Ontario election result. First off, there is a bit of utter revisionist nonsense floating around that the PC lead over the summer “wasn’t real”, even though all signs pointed to a huge Liberal deficit. YES, the senti…
Continue readingfrom the 2037 Hammacher Schlemmer Glaven catalog This hat recalls the iconic headgear worn by the Cognition Brigade during the Second Robotic War. First developed for long distance thought projection, hats of this design were worn by countless Though Soldiers during the war, preferred for its ability to combat the medulla-inhibiting freeze rays of the […]
Continue readingWoo hoo! Stevo has been denied that so-called trifecta that he dreamed about! The most laughable thing about this is that it was likely one of his fishing buddies, Rob Ford, that tilted this one into McGuinty’s column. But crap, 49.2% turnout? That is very disappointing. Oh, and stay classy, Ottawa Sun: +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ LEAFS WIN! […]
Continue readingAlmost six years ago, Vince Ready, in an interim report to the BC Liberal government about relations with teachers, commented:
“…the parties have not concluded meaningful negotiations in the decade since the Public Education Labour Relations Act es…
Continue readingNot quite what we wanted but not bad. It's a strong minority; my sense, the government will last until Spring 2013. http://bit.ly/o1NA4z
Continue readingI just want to point out a few things quickly, and I’ll go more in-depth later on tonight.First off, while the projection failed, it didn’t fail too spectacularly – it got 16 ridings wrong, five of them which went Liberal, nine which went PC, and two w…
Continue readingIf you want to get a good sense of what the advance poll turnout from Tuesday likely means in campaign terms, wander over to labradore. In the current election, six of the ten highest advance-vote districts were in metro St. John’s. In 2007, only t…
Continue readingThis is a risky blog post since it’s coming late at night and my faculties, post-campaign party, are just not quite at 100%. There are a few things percolating on my brain, however, so here goes…First off, congrats to our principal opponent Cheri DiN…
Continue readingThe contempt that the Conservatives are
treating Parliament with scored another couple of hits yesterday. First of all,
they moved time allocation on the budget implementation bill. You know, the
bill that they introduced and started debate on while …
Aid blackmail in Palestine – Opinion – Al Jazeera EnglishExcerpt:Once again, Palestinians are being punished for daring to exercise a choice.It happened before in 2006, when they took part in what was deemed to be the wrong kind of democracy and picked…
Continue readingFor those who don’t know: Today – October 7th – is Ada Lovelace Day. It’s a day where you “share your story about a woman — whether an engineer, a scientist, a technologist or mathematician — who has inspired you to become who you are today.” It would be remiss for me not to blog […]
Continue readingLike its mainstream media counterparts in the US and Canada the Russian news service Pravda is busy misrepresenting Asperger’s as Autism. In Autism: Life full of struggle and success there is mention of Asperger’s as “an” autism disorder. …
Continue readingTwitters about Christy Clark’s v-neck, jokes about Elizabeth Warren’s appearance, comparing Rathika Sitsabaiesan’s cleavage photos, amazement that Alberta conservatives would elect a female leader — did I wake up in 1970 by mistake?
Continue readingTop 10 under-reported facts about a decade of war in Afghanistan | rabble.caExcerpt regarding “Women’s Rights”The “women’s rights” rationale has been exposed as a cynical sham. I’m not sure who really takes this fraud seriously anymore, but it’s import…
Continue readingI’m sure I’ll have more to say about the Ontario election.Maybe. Zzzzzzzzzzz.But tonight all I have the energy to say is that the bigot Tim Hudak is now officially a LOSER. The scummy little bottom feeder.My riding, Trinity Spadina, helped sc…
Continue readingThe newest episode of the Ryan Painter Show podcast is up. Click here to listen. If you want to go to the main podcast page, please click here. As usual, please feel free to comment, leave a question or an activist call to action and I will read it on …
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