The Mount Royal "Shadow Tory MP" departs government service
The right thing appears to have been done in the case of Saulie Zajdel, the ‘Shadow Tory MP’ who ran against Irwin Cotler in Mount Royal but who nevertheless gained…
April 2012
Minister of Fun #CPCMinisters
The Conservative government in Canada needs to start expanding its swelled Cabinet to include Ministers that Conservatives care about. Perhaps we could get #CPCMinisters meme to trend on Twitter? Here…
Memories of Mulcair
This Canadian Press report from Friday is about the use of the debate time in the House of Commons Friday on the reaction to the budget. The NDP took up…
Conservatives push Rights and Democracy over the side
The Conservatives have decided to scrap Rights and Democracy. That would be the International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development, though I have no doubt they plan to continue…
Liblogs – Minus One
Hey, did you notice that Liblogs got a cool new make-over recently? Almost a year after he went down in flames (sadly, along with most of the party) and then,…
Big Telecom’s good idea: National standards to protect consumers
You read that title correctly. Here’s the idea: Rogers recently filed an application with the CRTC asking “for stronger protections for customers of wireless services”, not long after Telus made…
The Smartest Man in the [Tory Caucus] Room
Like scary stories? Here’s one. Imagine that Stephen Harper truly is the “Smartest San In the Room.” Since he came onto the federal scene we’ve repeatedly heard the Steve sees…
The Six Million Dollar Deal…What Mr. Loukedelis Said.
AllTheClarificationsThatFit BlindfoldedDucksInParallelRowsVille Last week we disagreed with former BC Liberal Government Attorney General Geoff Plant who insisted that, despite the fact that there was an ‘understanding’ (Mr. Plant’s term, not…
Harper Tory Government is a bad manager of our economy, says Auditor-General
Harper’sgovernment is responsible for the proper functioning of the civil service. Oneof their key jobs is to ensure that Canada’s affairs are run in a competentfashion, lest we slip into…
Leadership 2012 – Candidate What-Ifs
Following up on this post, let’s look at a few what-ifs from the NDP’s leadership campaign in retrospect – this time wondering how the outcome might have changed from the…
Americans increasingly support interracial marriage
At a time when Americans agonize over the shooting of Trayvan Martin in Florida, and racial tensions simmer, a Pew Research Center survey reveals at least one encouraging development. According…
PBI Survivor Fund Project criteria for therapists
I hope this information will put some of the speculation about how PBI has chosen to control the access of abuse survivors to therapy to rest. Over the last while,…
Adventures in parenting, Part 2: Longing for some sleep
I’m writing this post while in a bit of a haze. Actually, I’ve written all the posts on this site while in a bit of a haze. So if you…
The failure to plead is fatal
Besharah v. Saikaley, 2012 ONCA 214 is another example of where the failure to plead is fatal: First, breach of fiduciary duty was not pleaded. Accordingly, the trial judge was…
Light blogging ahead
Sorry for the lack of content for the last few days. And the next few. Have to take care of business. I’m sure you’ve all noticed that people who send…
Systematic Abuse. . . .
I am surely not the only one to notice that while every government is bound to fall prey to one kind of scandal or another, our present government is continually…
Stephen Harper’s latest victim: Rights And Democracy agency axed
Ironically Rights & Democracy was created in 1988 by Brian Mulroney’s government – the independent agency monitors human rights and promotes democracy abroad. Stevie must be musing to himself, “Who…
ERDC Maybe Settling with the Last Defendants!
Not much of a post today as I have to go to court in the Electronic Rights Defence Committee’s 15 year old (almost to the day: we filed April 7,…
Socialism and Happiness – A Coincidence?
I don’t know what the extreme right-wing will make of this, but the fact that the top five countries on the Happiness Index either have socialism at their core or…