Dmitry Medvedev Makes More Sense Than Mitt Romney
Lol, beautiful: “I recommend that all US presidential candidates, including the candidate you mention (Romney), do at least two things,” Medvedev told Russian reporters on the sidelines of a nuclear…
March 2012
The Council of Canadians’ Magnificent Seven
Canada’s Woodward & Bernstein, Stephen Maher and Glen McGregor, of Postmedia News, today bring us news about The Council of Canadians’ Magnificent Seven. In the 1960 western The Magnificent Seven,…
Ocean view #6
Filed under: art, digital, painting Tagged: art, ocean, painting, seascape, water
T.O. Sun Sacks Another
Connie Woodcock says she has been axed after 18 years as an op-ed Toronto Sun columnist. Posted at Toronto Sun Family Blog, who are usually pretty reliable.
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Tuesday, March 27, 2012: Ontario eyes appeal of brothel ruling – Toronto Sun Toronto News: Human rights tribunal…
Abortion in Canada – M312 – Round up!
Kids are home, snow is falling and blowing, dogs waiting to be walked, laundry piling up, painting to be done but here I sit because I’d like to gather together…
ThinkHQ #AbVote Poll: 36% PC, 33% Wildrose
Another pollster has put out this week showing another close race as compared to the trend from earlier this month and before, with the Wildrosers clearly benefitting. PC – 36%…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Stephen Maher and Glen McGregor report that the Council of Canadians is leading the charge in challenging election results which may have…
On early definition
It’s entirely predictable that far too many in the media are starting their coverage of Thomas Mulcair’s election as NDP leader with the Cons’ instant spin – in some cases…
Who said that?
A last look at Toronto-Danforth by-election. “The Liberal Party sees a very, very good opportunity in Toronto-Danforth, and the effort there will be to have a vigorously contested nomination. I…
Globe: CRTC approves plan for Broadcast Participation Fund
High media concentration means that Canadians will be evermore impacted by the decisions that Big Telecom makes. When Bell bought CTV, the CRTC made them promise to put money aside…
Narrative evidence
R. v. D.A.R., 2012 NSCA 31 has useful language regarding narrative evidence: Narrative evidence may be admissible for a variety of purposes: to understand the unfolding of events surrounding an…
ConCalls: Tough on Crime
Information is the lifeblood of democracy. Stephen Harper knows that, he said it. Ask yourself why the Chief Electoral Officer’s report on electoral fraud this week, is being given to…
Ontario’s Impending Austerity Budget
Reading my morning Star, I learned that there is wide-spread support among the public for austerity measures to reduce Ontario’s deficit. I suspect that there will be a particular appetite…
Whose Sacred Cow?
Lawrence Martin writes this morning that Canada is about to take a sharp right turn. In the process, several of the country’s sacred cows will be sent to the abattoir:…
God is not a statistician
Wow. 100,000 years of wow. Alltop is a standard deviant from the mean.
Climate Change Conspiracy Revealed
* Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America: Expert Credibility In Climate Change Open Secrets: Senator James Inhofe, Top Industry Funders
What Canada really needs — as the Ontario Court of Appeal majority hints — is for Parliament to rip up the existing system of prostitution laws, which is based on centuries-old common law concepts, and start afresh
Jonathan Kay: A worthy, measured blow for prostitution-law reform http://natpo.st/H8V8vs
7 Robocon lawsuits filed
The latest from McMaher: The Council of Canadians has launched legal challenges of May federal election results in seven ridings, on behalf of electors living in those ridings. The ridings…