Lisec America, Inc. v. Barber Suffolk Ltd., 2012 ONCA 37 is a good source for the principle that common law title plays little if any role in determining priority rights…
A just-released study has demonstrated what many of us already knew to be true: a Taser is the police cattle-prod of the twenty-first century, serving exactly the same function as…
A little late for 2011 retrospectives, but, as I said, I was busy. First list: the most popular by hits. Second: my personal picks. 10 Most Popular Posts (many of…
I love this town!
Nothing so far, by the look of it. Remember him? A disgraced Harper crony who was supposed to be undergoing an RCMP investigation? On his desk, Harper has had the…
Adam Nobody has been vindicated—sort of. Ontario’s relatively new Office of the Independent Police Review Director has spoken. The OIPRD was established in 2009 to provide some relief to victimized…
Some say advertising doesn’t work, reality says advertising does work. The Province of Quebec banned fast food ads and research has come out proving that Quebec had a good idea:…
Just before we were all interrupted in our getting and spending by the financial crisis of 2008, plans were rolling ahead to redevelop one of the oldest neighborhoods in Montreal,…
BlindedByTheLight RevvedUpLikeDeuce(sGoneWild)Ville Frances Bula has published a piece in The Globe on those egregious high-wattage, mega-mansion-sized billboards from PavCo that are burning the retinas of downtown residents who live within…
Difficult and challenging place filled with many, many oppressive people whose sexualities and desires are so reinforcing of dominant values and dynamics that I’ve found it difficult to breathe around…
http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1118538–mayor-rob-ford-s-lawyer-calls-audit-order-a-waste-of-money?bn=1 Rob Ford’s lawyer, in yet another desperate plea “to prevent an audit of his campaign expenses” … “told a judge the forensic audit would be “a waste of taxpayer’s…
Sure, he’s recycling the work of bloggers without giving acknowledgement (mostly DC; maybe me a bit). Sure, some of it is unintentionally funny: a Conservative insider insisting that there is…
German Solar Park. For most of the past winter, Germany’s 1.1 million solar power systems that crisscross the country have sat relatively idle. Overcast skies and a relative lack of…
You learn a lot when you pay attention to what people say. Like natural resources minister Jerome Kennedy when he says that “it seems that they perhaps want to assume…
From the definitely not co-ordinating with Stephen Colbert Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow SuperPAC, a negative ad attacking the negative ads of the Republican frontrunners… then vows donations will…
Mitt Romney has so far refused to release information on his taxes. There is a good reason why he hasn’t. If those documents see the light of day, it will…
Yeah sure, but will these officers ever be charged? Not likely. Even if they are charged, chances are great that they will get off. It’s the way it works these…
What a nice idea. Mayors of more than 70 cities in the United States are joining forces to support marriage equality. From Associated Press: The mayors of Boston, Houston, Los…
The independent cell phone companies that we *do* have in Canada were created after a 2008 auction for crucial wireless infrastructure—after the government decided to make the auction’s rules favour…
