Fresh evidence on appeal
R. v. L.C.T., 2012 ONCA 116 is a good example of a mechanical application of the test for admission of fresh evidence on appeal: The four-part test for the admission of fresh…
February 2012
What Shows Up in Our E-Mail
As an avid motorcyclist I get plenty of e-mail from suppliers of bike parts and accessories. Some of them throw in freebie teasers. Today I got a taser teaser. Really.…
More Happiness by Having Fewer Things
Here’s a quick, short, and inspiring TED Talk from the founder of TreeHugger about getting rid of material things can bring happiness to your life.
Judge Lenient Because 11-Year Old Rape Victim Was "Willing"
When is this madness going to stop? This time it’s Britain. There Judge David Farrell sentenced two men convicted of raping an 11-year old to just 40-months imprisonment. The judge…
The solution for Canada’s pensions problem: More Canadians
Harper’s Tory government has announced that Canada has a problem: not enough workers in future years to support pensions and old age security payments to seniors: As if that weren’t…
More on Google Transit and how it is Reshaping a Public Service
Some of you know I’ve written a fair bit on Google transit and how it is reshaping public transit – this blog post in particular comes to mind. For more…
Online surveillance satisfaction team
The best part of good customer service is anticipating problems and solving them BEFORE they happen. Alltop likes to watch.
Well, This Is Awkward
Israeli F-16 Showing Seven Syrian Aerial Victories and the Bombing of Iraq’s Osirik Reactor. Iran has warned it may strike pre-emptively in the face of persistent threats of imminent attack…
Moral Distinctions Matter in the Toews-Social Media Brouhaha
It’s important to make a moral distinction between the actions of Vikileaks30 and Anonymous – the latter’s actions clearly constituting an overt and hostile threat – instead of lumping them…
The metaphysics of IVF
The Globe and Mail ventures into metaphysics this morning, with predictably disastrous results. Children who are conceived with an egg or sperm donor should have the right to know their…
Human Hospital Emergency Room gone to dogs
I have often heard people complaining about hospital emergency rooms -how long it takes and that care given is substandard. However, if the patients are puppies then the situation is…
QOTD: On taking the "activist" out of "activist judges"
In an op-ed at the Globe and Mail, Adam Goldenberg considers those provisions of Bill C-30 that would free the police from the need to seek warrants where warrants are…
“Dion syndrome” is revisionist history masking self-interest
Leadership races are always places for amusing and nonsensical spin, and the current NDP race is no exception with some participants warning against a supposedly deadly, but entirely fictional, new…
Extra Billing: Thousands of Dollars Paid by Patients at Montreal Private Clinic
Extra-billing and kick-backs to doctors in Quebec have been in the news these last couple of days. First the Quebec College of Physicians charged that at least two cardiologists have…
Power Failure – Part 2: The Folly of the Kokish River IPP Proposal
The race for BC to become a world leader in new clean energy production was over long ago, when Government and the private power sector blew their wager on run-of-river…
Revolutionary Defeatism. . . .
In an act of what they used to, in the old days of Marxists discourse, call “revolutionary defeatism” I have a perverse kind of hope that the Conservative regime will…
Belugas languish at Vancouver Aquarium
Animals rights hyperbole alienates public, hurts cause By Mark Hasiuk, Vancouver Courier February 21, 2012 Save the whales, from the animal rights folk. No other North American social movement has…
WELCOME To Stephen Harper’s neo-Canada!
Canada under Conservatives not what it used to be by Joan Baxter“It is interesting that Laurent Le Pierrès seems to believe Canada hasn’t fundamentally changed, and he can still look…