Would you Like Pommes De Frites With That, Monsieur?
Pierre Peladeau, owner of Quebecor, the T.O. Sun, and Sun TV...that is, most of what is evil about the Canadian MSM...lost 9.1% of his value last year. He's not even…
October 2011
The morning after
I’m tired but elated this beautiful morning. 53 seats. Pretty exceptional if you ask me when just a few weeks ago people were counting Liberals out. I’ll have more to…
Friday Morning ‘Rider Blogging
Sometimes, an ugly result on the scoreboard bears little resemblance to the actual flow of a football game. But last Saturday's annihilation at the hands of the Calgary Stampeders was…
If La Romaine isn’t profitable… #nlpoli #nlvotes
An economics professor at l’Universite d’Ottawa thinks Hydro-Quebec’s La Romaine project isn’t profitable at the projected sale price to Vermont of 5.8 cents per kilowatt hour when the electricity will…
1:00 pm Today: Ethical Considerations in an Age of Technolgy
For those who will be joining us today for Ethical Considerations in an Age of Technology, a live webinar from the LSUC CPE department, welcome. A couple of quick notes:…
Charisma Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up To Be
Dalton McGuinty won a third mandate yesterday. Six months ago he was a dead man walking. He will need support from the NDP to keep him upright. But the truth…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for October 07, 2011
Here are today's leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter: B.C. coroner says Dziekanski inquest not needed -http://goo.gl/xEnn2 The IP Arms Race - http://goo.gl/fEqVR Lawyer Uses His Head in…
‘If you don’t have a job and you’re not rich, blame yourself’
So says Republican Presidential nomination hopeful Herman Cain. Expressing his disdain for the Occupy Wall Street movement, Cain seems at a loss to understand the anger people feel over the…
Ontario Election Maps
I've created two maps of the results. First a map showing the results straight-upNot much to say at this time, similar to maps you can find elsewhere.Secondly, and perhaps more…
And the winner is…
So, which pollster had it right?I recorded the last polls of the election here.Here they are compared to the results. Source Liberal PC NDP Green Dates Details RESULTS 37.6% 35.4%…
Ontario election aftermath & is it time for mandatory voting?
It was a fascinating result last night in Ontario (I say that as someone interested in political science, not as a Liberal partisan). It’s not often in a First-Past-The-Post electoral…
more mcfadden: scenes from a class war
Please visit Brian McFadden and his Big Fat Whale. The war on Afghanistan is having a birthday party, and you're invited.
Brian Williams takes a quick bite before appearing on the Letterman show
We all know Williams as the news host on NBC and he is a good one. What a lot of people don’t know is that he is quite a comedian…
Screwed Up System Almost Screws Ontarians
Well we seem to have dodged a bullet, but just barely. The first past the post system did its usual magic and almost produced a majority of seats with less…
scenes from an occupation, continued
Day 19:Most compelling moment of the night: Watching NYPD taking a girl away, crowd asked her name, she replied, "Troy Davis, Medgar Evers, Emmett Till, Martin Luther King." Total poise,…
Life Is Good
A fine night it was, for Liberals and Leafs. - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Firm website: www.wiselaw.net TORONTO EMPLOYMENT LAW • TORONTO CIVIL LITIGATION & ESTATE…
This Week at the Ontario Court of Appeal: 11-10-07
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…
Quick Notes
...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…
Election Wrap Up
A 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",…