Suggestive but not dispositive: http://bit.ly/xElnoQ OTTAWA — On the day "Pierre Poutine" activated the burner cellphone used to launch his robocall blitz on voters in Guelph, Ont., a young Conservative…
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Friday, March 9, 2012: Toronto to look at expanding outdoor smoking ban now aimed at playgrounds Judge orders…
TheManning-UpOfThe… RepublicOfBananastanVille Hey. Look who’s going way, way out for breakfast this morning according to a nice bit o’ proBlogging by the VSun’s JFowlie: Premier Christy Clark will be in…
For those living in or around the Toronto area, please consider attending Sunday’s rally to protest both the voter suppression crimes committed during the last federal election and the ‘strange’…
A few days worth of news from the NDP’s leadership campaign… – Niki Ashton appealed to NDP members to consider the need to build among younger voters. – Co-campaign manager…
Mercer Gold Corporation (Nevada) v. Mercer Gold Corp. (B.C.), 2012 BCCA 103 deals with leave to appeal from an order granting an interlocutory injunction. The appellant argued that the respondent,…
That was the question Senator Howard Baker asked as the United States Congress moved toward its decision to impeach Richard Nixon. And that is the question Lawrence Martin asks this…
Few people know the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer had an advanced understanding of modern physics, but only alluded to it in some of his works because he dare not reveal…
… to screech that fraudulent calls were the result of a massive solar storm. Possibly caused by Stephen Dion. Or Taliban Bob. Solar system frauds. A proud legacy of the…
Statistics Canada reported this morning that 38,000 people gave up looking for work in February. The official unemployment rate fell because these Canadians were no longer counted as being unemployed.…
* Although Rick Mercer treats the current situation regarding control of scientists and their tax-payer funded research in Canada with humour, unfortunately it is no laughing matter when the government…
Today’s job numbers underscore the need for a federal Budget to create jobs rather than destroy jobs. The overall picture since September of last year has been one of job…
Why do reasonable people consider that only supporters of Conservatives were responsible for the illegal robocalls? It’s because of evidence like this: ““Last week I was contacted by a voter…
Unions Not In Decline (Quite)! Time to slam a celebratory 6-pack in the parking lot, lads! Then its off to build cars.
Well I see that John Baird’s Screaming Buffoon World Tour has arrived in Burma. Only to have the stench of hypocrisy follow him all the way there. Canada will be…
In some respects, it is a threat that would strike fear only into the hearts of Danny Williams’ Tories: If this problem is not resolved today, you can expect me…
It appears there may be a case in the robo-calls from Guelph, and a clue as to who “Pierre Poutine” might have been. While the trail of clues may have…
Thronged were the streets with people; and noisy groups at the house-doors Sat in the cheerful sun, and rejoiced and gossiped together, Every house was an inn, where all were…
Access to Information, Open Data and the Problem with Convergence
In response to my post yesterday one reader sent me a very thoughtful commentary that included this line at the end: “Rather than compare FOI legislation and Open Gov Data…