Ted Nugent: The Dickhead
Ted Nugent, the rocker, told NRA members that he will either be “dead or in jail” next year if President Obama is re-elected. What did he mean by that? Now…
April 2012
April 18: Prime Minister escapes death!!
Just yesterday, the big, foreign news story was that Harper was walking on a beach with his pants rolled up. Today, a nation sighs with relief and church bells are…
4499…Nothing Going On Here
City in mourning. Senators lost. 1/0. Sadness abounds. WFDS
Cultivate Your Garden: Inspiration from the Office de la Consultation Publique de Montréal
Consultation is extremely important in planning our future: witness the way that the Harperites have just undermined environmental reviews by changing the rules. But one thing I didn’t expect to…
Alberta Votes Day 24: Sleeping Arrangements at Minority Motel
Above: Preview of post-election Cabinet meetings? Despite a lackluster debate performance by Alison Redford, a pair of post-debate polls show the Wildrose margin down to 7 points. With daily controversies…
Legally hospitals cannot conceal gender of fetus from mother
Apparently certain hospitals in Ontario are withholding the gender of a fetus from a mother to avoid a gender selective abortion. Ignoring any moral issues, is such withholding lawful? No.…
Missing Conservative robocall records no surprise
We have another case of electoral fraud where the trail of evidence has led directly to the Conservative Party of Canada’s headquarters. We now learn that Elections Canada has discovered…
Witnesses may be excused for ill health but only where such is proven strictly
W. Bryant Shears Ltd. v. Sharmat Services Inc. 2012 NLCA 17 is a useful source for the principle that witnesses may be excused for ill health but only where such…
140Law – Legal Headlines for Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Wednesday, April 18, 2012: What Your Will Should Say About Your Digital Assets Malik, acquitted in Air India…
Lib-Dipper merger, etc. etc.
Tim Harper has a piece worth a read. He’s right that the warring conservative factions needed to get their faces rubbed in the dirt a few times before they got…
PMs from Calgary opposites by Frances Russell
Columnist says when inflation, other increases and severance and forced-retirement costs are added, the CBC’s real loss to its budget doubles from 10 per cent to 20 per cent and…
ConCalls: The Search Warrant that Names Names in #RoboCon
I thought I’d seen the first Robocall search warrant (Production Order), and I had, but the Information to Obtain a Production Order is so very much more interesting I think.…
ontarians, what are you doing this saturday? come to queen’s park to demand a fair budget
When Dalton McGuinty appointed a banker to assess the province’s budget priorities, he got exactly what he expected: a recommendation to cut jobs and shred public services, while leaving corporate…
Double Booking
Michael Freguson revealed that, when it came to the purchase of the F35 JSF, the Harper government was keeping two sets of books. Now parliamentary budget officer Kevin Page has…
How to Ace a Job Interview – Paulitical Styles
the more boring they are, the harder they fall…back into unemployment So, I was reading an article on the Star’s Moneyville blog that purported to be about how young people…
How To Vent Your Frustration with Stephen Harper
Ever felt like knocking a little sense into our contemptible Prime Minister? Visit this website for an unusual and cathartic opportunity. Recommend this Post
Crap
How is saying that gays will burn in “a lake of fire” in Hell, or that whites make for better candidates, simply “politically incorrect”? That’s crap.