Stephen Harper Shows Corporate Tax Cuts at Work
On March 19, 2008, Stephen Harper posed for a photo-op at London’s Electro-Motive plant to showcase a $5-million federal tax break given to Caterpillar, the American buyers of the Canadian…
February 2012
Occupy Montreal wants your art! – City-wide callout for artists
Occupy Montreal has announced the formation of a city-wide art committee, and they are calling for artists to get involved. A first meeting has been scheduled for Friday, Feb 17,…
Amazon Sells Bizarre Anti-Gay eBook
Tired of waiting for family, acquaintances, clergy, editorialists, and random strangers to remind you that they think you’re going to hell? Get bible-bashed in the comfort of your own home…
Totality principle
R. v. Hutchings, 2012 NLCA 2 is an important and careful decision considering the totality principle in the context of multiple offences. The principle applies to ensure the overall sentence…
Toronto Councillors To Vote For the Return of Most of Transit City
TTC Chair Karen Stintz Moves To Bury Rob Ford’s Subway This Wednesday, Toronto city council will vote to bring back most of the Transit City plan. 24 members of council…
Cyberflanage, Or the Delights and Dangers of Lateral Thinking
The New York Times had an interesting article yesterday by Evgeny Morozov about what he thinks is a missed opportunity in the Internet Age: the way it allowed us to…
Diane Finley’s Demographics
On CTV yesterday, human resources minister Diane Finley said (45 seconds into this interview): “As we go forward, we’re going to have three times the expense in Old Age Security…
A Conservative Ignores the Science on Why…Conservatives Ignore the Science
discoveryGlobeHeader.jpg David Klinghoffer, of the anti-evolutionist Discovery Institute, has a revealing article in the conservative American Spectator entitled: “Republicans and Science (as opposed to liberals and the science they’ve politicized).”…
Sixty Years Queen of Canada
Most of us have no memory of anyone other than Elizabeth being Queen. And in truth she has been a dedicated and model Monarch: http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/02/06/queen-elizabeth-ii-marks-60-years-on-the-throne/ KING’S LYNN, United Kingdom —…
Canadians to PM Harper: No Enbridge Pipeline
I don’t see too many “jet-setting celebrities” in the crowd of ~2000 people that showed up to demonstrate their opposition to the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline in Prince Rupert British…
Not My Queen!
We continue to live in a make believe country. Somehow or the other, archaic processes remain which technically links the Dominion of Canada to the monarch of a foreign nation.…
Action: Sign petition to have CNN fire Roland Martin
So, just a few days after CNN published a stellar article by Rob Smith about his observations as a gay man of color, CNN analyst Roland Martin comes out to…
photos from quebec trip on flickr
Our photos from Quebec City, dogsledding and Montreal are on Flickr. There turned out to be more decent dogsledding photos than I thought. The city photos are just a few…
Duty of care defined
18. also owed plaintiff … a duty of care not to drink under age, or to file bottle rockets out of his anus. This seems like one of those things…
pupdate with good news
It’s been a long time since I’ve updated you on Tala’s condition. She’s made a lot of progress! In short: more activity + less medication = happier dog = happier…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Monday, February 6, 2012
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Monday, February 6, 2012: Judging the judges – Canadian Lawyer Magazine Sweeping publication ban in Williams divorce case…
Government By Gaffe
“A gaffe,” Michael Kingsley wrote, “is when a politician tells the truth.” Americans have been treated to several examples of this phenomenon as Mitt Romney seeks the presidency. Last week,…
Olive: Time to play hardball with Caterpillar (but you can bet the Conservatives won’t)
Here is a very hard-line piece from David Olive today in the Star about what the Canadian government should do about Caterpillar – a tone I’m not used to seeing…
Is Labour Doomed?
Last week (Feb. 2nd) I drove up to London, Ontario, to shoot some film footage of the locked-out workers picketing outside the Electro-Motive Diesel plant for a documentary I am…
Orwell: The Prevention of Literature
“In our age, the idea of intellectual liberty is under attack from two directions. On the one side are its theoretical enemies, the apologists of totalitarianism, and on the other…