Liberals have voted to pick a new leader sometime between March and June 2013. I was personally hoping for a shorter timeline but my sense from yesterday’s conference call is Liberals are ready to get to work rebuilding the party in the interim. I thin…
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Ontario Employment Law: Disability and Frustration of An Employment Contract
Frustration of an employment contract occurs when, through no fault of either party, an event occurs that makes the contract impossible to perform. Under Ontario law, where an employee is suffering from a permanent disability with no reasonable prospe…
Continue readingBuckdog: Conservative Senator Pamela Wallin IS Elitist And Arrogant
“Every senator in this caucus needs to decide where their loyalty should be and must be. The answer is simple; our loyalty is to the man who brought us here, the man who has wanted Senate reform since he entered politics, the Rt. Hon. Stephen Harper.
Continue readingMy journey with AIDS...and more!: Not pictured
View Full Album I am mindful, on this Father’s Day, that I do not have many photographs of Thomas Arnold (“Arnie”) Chaplin. (The additional ones I do have are wedding party shots with people who might not wish to be published.) However my mem…
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: To thine own self be true
Just a fun post – no serious politico-philosophical stuff here…gotta take a break some time.. And yes, I am an unabashed head-banger… I do love music that gets your energy flowing, including hard rock…along with blues, jazz, cla…
Continue readingA Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: looking at nothing and finding infinity
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Continue readingWise Law Blog: This Week At The Ontario Court of Appeal: 11-06-09
Each week Wise Law Blog reviews recent decisions from the Ontario Court of Appeal.Ontario (Labour) v. Black & McDonald Limited. An appeal from an Ontario Court of Justice trial where charges laid under the Occupational Health and Safety Act were dismis…
Continue readingWise Law Blog: When Crime Isn’t Crime (Or It Is)
The comments on this Calgary Sun article about activists who wish to not receive a criminal record for their act of activism (namely draping a protest banner off the Calgary Tower, which is private property) are fairly predictable, because it’s the Sun…
Continue readingmike watkins dot ca: MIA: Federal NDP Constitution
A number of times this year I’ve gone looking for the federal NDP constitution on-line, with no success. During or before the last federal election the party pulled the constitution document from its website – perhaps it was never there. The most recent copy of the document I’ve been able
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: Shades of Green: The Meaning of That Laughter
Moral Ground is a book of environmental essays that contains a chillingly poignant one by Derrick Jensen, “You Choose”, in which he has asked people a simple and fundamental question. “Do you believe that this culture will undergo a voluntary transform…
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Open Letter to Bioware – The Old Republic
An Open Letter to BioWare on The Old Republic MMO As a single consumer, I have very little impact as to what goes on and into TOR. I am writing this letter to voice concerns over the development of the game and more personally, what would make me happy and want to purchase the game. […]
The Happy Wanderer: The Pawlenty Plan Part 2
First the U.S will spend 3.8 Trillion this year. Let’s say Pawlenty’s plan would only cost 380 billion then you add that with 1.6 trillion you have a approximate 2.0 trillion dollar deficit. Even if you reduce the deficit to 1.9 trillion, because o…
Continue reading350 or bust: Gentlemen – Happy Father’s Day!
“It is a wonderful feeling when your father becomes not a god but a man to you; when he comes down from the mountain and you see he’s this man with weakness. And you love him as a whole being, not as a figurehead.“ ~Robin Williams in …
Continue readingIf English was good enough for Jesus Christ
…it’s good enough for America. [H/t]…
Continue readingOttawa Tech Sector / RIM
A while ago I was going to post a quick something that I saw about the Ottawa Tech Sector from the Ottawa Citizen, but didn’t post it. Unfortunately things didn’t seem to be going well in Ottawa high-tech despite some encouraging signs from some companies. Article below: http://www.ottawacitizen.com/business/thinning+ranks+Ottawa+tech+sector/4564755/story.html?cid=megadrop_story But now it seems we could have […]
Canadian Soapbox: On this Father’s Day, let your kids believe in their dreams
For this Father’s Day I thought I’d write about my kids. They are ‘Buddy Basketball Star’ and his sister the ‘Princess Raspberry’ aged 6 and 12 respectively.
Kids are incredible, and when they’re younger they’re even more incredible. There’s a sim…
For My Mom and My Dad
AllTheThanksThatFitAllMyKids’HopesAndDreamsVilleI’ve been climbing in and out of the cigar tube a lot lately on my way to and from not-so-secret science geek bunkers dotted around the country where peer reviewers are fighting it out to the figurative d…
Continue readingNuclear emergency preparedness
Time once again to juxtapose: 2008: The woman who was fired by the federal Conservatives as president of Canada’s nuclear safety watchdog said Tuesday the safety risk of resuming the Chalk River, Ont., reactor was 1,000 times higher than accepted…
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