140 Law – Legal Headlines for Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Wednesday, January 25, 2012: Apple again loses Dutch bid for Samsung tablet ban | The Raw Story MegaUpload-type…
January 2012
4144…Devil Is In The Details
That is the message that emerges from the Liberal confab last weekend. WFDS
Letter to SaskPower President Regarding Solar Power
Here’s a letter going to the SaskPower President soon. If anyone has any suggestions for it, you have short time to make them. rwatson at ]saskpower.com
4143…Kieran Green Is In The Tower And Is Armed
The thoughtful former progressive Liberal posted a self proclaimed politically cranky list on Facebook today. I offer it to you here: Kieran Green I’m feeling particularly politically cranky today, so…
Money Means Free Speech?
In this morning’s Globe and Mail, Gerry Nicholls takes on critics of the recent National Citizens Coalition ad attacking Bob Rae. He complains that our laws: impose severe legal restrictions…
The Conservative Mantra: Statistics? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Statistics
The title of this post, meant to evoke the misquote of the Mexican bandits as they prepare to eliminate Fred Dobbs, the miscreant protagonist of The Treasure of the Seirra…
A Bottle and a Friend
There’s nane that’s blest of human kind, But the cheerful and the gay, man, Fal, la, la, etc. Here’s a bottle and an honest friend! What wad ye wish for…
Let’s stop fetishizing "The Market" | #cdnpoli #TOpoli #classwarfare #austerity
Comrades, this is our moment. Tonight we smash capitalism! (The code word is Dzhugashvili.) OK, cheap laugh. Sorry, but how could I not? Bemoaning the debasement of public discourse isn’t…
How the government will monitor your cell phones
In general, mobile phone penetration is extremely high in Canada. 78% of Canadian households had a mobile phone in 2010, and in young households 50% exclusively have mobiles. In addition…
Enemy of the people of Canada.
Who is the enemy, you decide! In a sworn affidavit released Tuesday to TheCanadian Press, Andrew Frank says he was told by his supervisorat ForestEthics that a PMO official had…
Cynthia Nixon is a hero
Apparently, “Sex and the City” co-star Cynthia Nixon has sparked a backlash after telling the New York Times Magazine that for her, being gay is a choice: “I gave a…
Affadavit: PM Harper’s Office Labels Environmental Charity “Enemy of Canada”
Andrew Frank is a Canadian citizen, and the former Senior Communications Manager with ForestEthics Canada. He is also an instructor in the Environmental Protection Technology program at Kwantlen Polytechnic University,…
Never give up. Never Surrender. #nlpoli #cdnpoli
Ryan Cleary’s news release about the seal hunt, arising from his comments to the Fisheries Broadcast: I will not back down from any issue: Cleary St. John’s – NDP MP…
Incompetent Senior Vancouver Police Officials Allowed Robert Picton Serial Murders To Continue Far Too Long!
VANCOUVER — Geographic profiler Kim Rossmo told the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry Tuesday that his 1998 bid for a working group to investigate a possible serial killer was shot…
Red Wave Envelops Canada
Well not quite, but since the name of the game in the short term is perceived viability, Liberals will take the recent spate of polling. Three polls out, all offer…
Former Tory fin min asks more Muskrat questions #nlpoli
Peckford-era finance minister Dr. John Collins has another letter to the editor in the Telegram questioning Muskrat Falls. The continued problem with Nalcor’s (and government’s) decision to date respecting the…
A little scattered
I’ve been a little scattered lately. I arrived home from work on Monday to the sound of Kazoo cackling in the dark. The whole time I was taking my boots…
Climate Scientists Send In The Lawyers
Climate Science Legal Defense Fund Gets New Backing PEER Sponsors Effort to Counter Fossil-Fueled Attacks on Climate Scientists Washington, DC — The Climate Science Legal Defense Fund (CSLDF) has found…
Chris Selley: The maddening pace of justice in Canada
"The fact is, Mr. Mugusera's case speaks to a broader problem with the pace of justice in this country. Governments are beginning to address this, but money is getting tight…