February 2012

Friday miscellany…

…Holy crap edition! *********************************************************************************************************** Holy crap! What a great cause! Bullying hurts. Bullying wrecks lives and families. Stand up to it! There are many anti-bullying groups out there. Ottawa’s own…

Tribunal review

Saikaley (Re), 2012 ONCA 92 deals, among other things, with the standard of review of a tribunal or administrative tribunal. The Court holds:        Deference will generally be accorded to a…

Empire and Trade

Empires vary: of conquest, of settlement, of trade; contiguous and maritime. Empires abound: a long list, longer even than many books on empire admit to. Wikipedia lists over 200 empires…

Nothing new under the Sun?

News of a Colombian FARCe: The chief prosecutor’s office obtained an arrest warrant Thursday for ex-President Alvaro Uribe’s longtime peace commissioner for allegedly choreographing the bogus surrender of a column…

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