Alison Redford is seen to have won the Alberta PC leadership on a policy-heavy campaign. She promised change, so one would imagine she’s eager to get going and introduce herself to voters through a bold agenda.After all, here’s what she said after winn…
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: A Buffoon’s Progress
Lawrence Martin writes, in today’s Globe and Mail, that:If you were picking the most valuable player on Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s front bench, you wouldn’t be far off in pointing to John Baird, the Foreign Affairs Minister.Baird, writes Marti…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: The Mug’s Game
Trying to predict seat counts based on a limited number of publicly available polls is – as PEI demonstrates – a mug's game, at best. The final tally: 22 Liberals and five Conservatives, compared to 24 Grits, two Tories and one vacancy at diss…
Continue readingWise Law Blog: 140 Law – Legal Headlines for October 04, 2011
Here are today’s leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter:
The importance of being civil – Canadian Lawyer Magazine -http://goo.gl/2yx6b
Bill C-11: Commentary Round-Up (10.03.11) – http://goo.gl/8nBCv
Ontario PCs grilled over flyer ca…
Dead Wild Roses: Freezing Children for God – The Immorality of Religion Hits Home.
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be a believer? To put the mythology before reality, place higher regard for fiction over fact? This clip shows a ‘man on the street’ interviewer with a desperately poor couple, begging for money in front of a big box retailer. The interviewer offers them $20 […]
Politics and its Discontents: When Police Chiefs Go Rogue
In a frightening, bald, and very public display of how much of a politician he has become, Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair has announced that he is no longer taking direction from the Police Services Board, as required by law, but is instead trying to …
Continue readingMcGuinty – He said it, then didn’t do it…
McGuinty say lots of things and doesn’t always manage to do the things he says he will or won’t do, as we all know. This from the Toronto Star today….
On Sept. 5, 2003, low in the polls, Dalton McGuinty took the main campaign plank from the NDP and…
Far and Wide: Trending Liberal
Yesterday, we saw conflicting polls, but that divergence has quickly evaporated, as the new Nanos suddenly looks a lot like the earlier EKOS, while the new EKOS shows further widening of the Liberal lead. In a nutshell, two big pollsters are showing a …
Continue readingTrashy's World: Ontario projection… just for the hell of it…
Yeah, yeah… I and everyone else was off base last time when all of we so-called “pundits” tried to pick the outcome of the May 2 election. And I have learned my lesson and won’t do it again. …. NOT! I love trying to predict outcomes of elections! Back in the old days (before May […]
Continue readingHarper: The Private Members Bill Puppet Master
Doesn’t it seem too much of a coincidence that upon the resumption of the new session of parliament all these new private members bills are coming from his back benches? Certainly there have been private members bills before but usually they are …
Continue readingImpolitical: A self-induced recession
An item at the Economist that is making the rounds conveys a quite frustrating aspect of the economic situation in Europe and the U.S.: “A self-induced recession”YOU know, if it weren’t for the politicians, the economy would have a fighting chance….B…
Continue readinggritchik: When politics turns ugly
The distribution of these flyers was disgusting – gutter politics in the truest sense of the definition – and the most desperate political tactic I have witnessed in a long, long time. Yesterday, because of these flyers, I donated to EGALE Canada and asked that they direct the money toward Ontario. If you feel similarly, […]
The Skwib: The Laser Equipped Autonomous Robotic Vacuum
(from the 2037 Hammacher Schlemmer Glaven catalog) This is the robotic vacuum that navigates autonomously through your home up to seven times per week, where it can either clean your floors or patrol for intruders. The unit’s specially designed dual, counter-rotating agitator brushes spread carpet fibers and enable the vacuum to remove hair and other […]
Continue readingMorton's Musings: A judge’s discretion regarding support awards is typically given considerable deference and not overturned on appeal "unless the reasons disclose an error in principle, a significant misapprehension of the evidence, or the award is clearly wrong"
Khurana v. Khurana, 2011 ABCA 261 deals with appeals from support awards. The Court emphasizes the deference to be paid to the judge of first instance saying: Standard of Review [5]  …
Continue readingknitnut.net: A funeral and an art-making party for Elmaks
If you would like to pay your respects to Maks at either or both of the following events, you are very welcome to attend.
WELLS, Maxim
Thursday, September 29, 2011. Maxim “Maks” Wells, at the tender age of 28. Cherished and loving son of Donna and James. Dear brother of Stuart. Friends may pay respects at Kelly […]
The Happy Wanderer: Who Won PEI?
Yesterday PEI had an election where they re-elected the Liberal government. The Liberals got 22 and the PC got 5 seats. No some would claim that since the PC won more seats they did relatively well in the election. The fact of the matter is that the PC…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Enviralment is a Flog For PWU (Power Workers Union)
That is, a fake Blog used as a sales tool, in this case by the Ontario Power Workers Union to trash Dalton McGuinty’s Green Energy Act: A bold labour union offensive targeting the environmental policies of the Ontario government is being driven l…
Continue readingImpolitical: The secret anti-green energy online campaign of the Power Workers’ Union
What the Power Workers’ Union has been up to during the Ontario election campaign to undermine the Liberal government’s green energy policies: “Ontario marketing campaign seeded Internet with ‘conversations’ promoting coal, nuclear.” A bold labour unio…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Your Daily Nazi: Support Rises For Storseth Private Member’s Bill Among Canadian Neo-Nazis!
From here:Yeah, its that Paul Fromm. And of course Heritage Front leader Marc Lemire is down with the repeal as well:Mr. Storseth, you must be so proud.
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Telelink releases campaign’s only independent poll #nlvotes #nlpoli
NTV and Telelink released the only independent poll of the campaign on Monday and with a week to go in the 2011 general election, things are on track for a historic election. For starters, let’s look at the Telelink party support numbers: PCP 35…
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