July 2011
Tim Hudak on witch-burnings
(Toronto, July 20) DawgNews has just learned that Tim Hudak, the Ontario Progressive Conservative leader likely to become the next premier of the province, once circulated a petition calling for…
A tribute to the late Sir Edward Elgar
I love how he has to struggle to get the premise out, because he knows is SO damn funny. Alltop is a maestro of the less-popular instrument, the garden hose…
Some Insights On Rupert Murdoch’s Troubles
My friend Gary, who has developed quite a talent for epistolary irony, sent me an email this morning on the Murdoch appearance yesterday before the British Parliament. With his permission,…
Harper Regime Considering Army Officer, Spy Chief as New Head of Mounties
There will be a new chief for the RCMP named soon, and the field of candidates appears to be notably weak and controversial, at least from the scanty coverage in…
A Hike to the Secret Passage
Last Friday and Saturday morning, before higher temperatures required me to do nothing but lie on the couch and read, A and I got up at 6:00 am to hike.…
Vetrovec caution
R. v. Roks, 2011 ONCA 526 contains a helpful review of the need for corroboration (in a loose sense) in a Vetrovec context: The principal complaint in this case has…
The State of Open Data Licenses in Canada and where to go from here
(for readers less interested in Open Data - I promise something different tomorrow) In February I wrote how 2011 would be the year of the license for Canada's open data…
Government of Canada Deceives Abused Telemarketers
Continuing my regular series of hopelessly bad government press releases, let me just say that if this is what human resources minister Diane Finley thinks is strong affirmative action in…
how Boarders blew it
Good summary of the marketing and financial decisions that led to Boarder’s bankruptcy http://ow.ly/5Jds3 Filed under: Miscellany
Deja Vu All Over Again
Does this sound familiar?: As Cameron rushed through South Africa and Nigeria on a whistle-stop trade tour, aides urged reporters to focus on other issues. "Perspective" was a word that…
Herman Cain – The Godfather Pizza Guy
Herman Cain is one of the GOP Presidnetial candidates for 2012. He thinks being CEO of Godfather Pizza is a great qualification for President. He probably also thinks that people…
counting calories? stop! there’s new info on food and exercise
And despite conventional advice to eat less fat, weight loss was greatest among people who ate more yogurt and nuts, including peanut butter, over each four-year period. via nytimes.com An…
Rumpole and the Cardinal Rule
St. John’s lawyer Averill Baker is pissed that the Crown prosecutor is trying to remove her from a case because she represented the victim in the savage beating her current…
Reasonable diligence and discoverability for limitation periods
Valesco v. North York Chevrolet Oldsmobile Ltd., 2011 ONCA 522 deals with diligence and discoverability for a limitation period. A period runs from the date a claim is discovered and that the earlier…
Minister targets 1,800 in citizAntship crackdown
Inspired by this story: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/07/20/pol-kenney-immigration-visas.html
Ontario Liberals in Free Fall: Predictably Resort to Useless Smearing and a Failed Strategy
So the Ontario Liberals want the coming provincial election to be about ethical issues such as women’s reproductive rights. Now I get the strategy. Distraught with their free falling in…
IQT client Bell Canada should step up and help affected workers
Hundreds of Canadian workers should not be left in the lurch by the sudden closing of call centres in Trois-Rivières, Laval, and Oshawa. According to an on-line news article in…
I’ll be happy to clarify that for you, Premier Wall
Saskatchewan premier Brad Wall has expressed surprise at Dalton McGuinty's concern about tax dollars subsidizing the oil patch. As this article puts it: Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall said he was…
City council’s budget cuts create ‘meadow look’
By Stuart Mackinnon, Vancouver Courier July 20, 2011 8:02 AM To the editor: Re: "Central Park: Thigh high," July 13. The "meadow look" is just a euphemism for budget cuts…