140Law – Legal Headlines for Thursday, May 9, 2012
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Thursday, May 9, 2012: Ontario court denies bid to use new summary judgment rules to determine “catastrophic impairment”…
May 2012
Sorry for all the incompetent government
A Tory MP backbencher is rebelling in a refreshingly candid fashion. Not here, of course. It’s across the pond where the backbenchers appear to be doing more than baaing like…
The NDP: The Road Travelled from 2006 to 2012
On election night in January 2006, Jack Layton declared that Canadians had “voted out of hope for change” and expressed the conviction that the NDP caucus, 29 MPs as compared…
The Remaking of Canadian Conservatism: 1988 to 2012
Brian Mulroney’s success in leading the Progressive Conservative Party to a second majority victory in the general election of 1988 was the last hurrah of the old Conservative Party, the…
New column day
Here, on how Brad Wall’s Saskatchewan Party wants to turn back the clock on workers’ rights which have rightly gone unquestioned for near a century. For further reading…– The actual…
Omnishambles: the Brits dump the F35s
It’s contagious The Brits have made just as big a dog’s dinner out of the F35 file as the Harperites have. Whereas Canadians are fond of the word “boondoggle” to…
About That Foreign Money
Peter Kent has accused environmental organizations of “laundering” foreign money, implying that they are enemies of the state. But, according to the Canada Revenue Agency, the organizations which receive the…
Beauty and Difference – A Celebration
I love clothes, I love fashion, I love feeling wonderful in clothes I love, I love shoes, I love getting dressed up for parties, I love getting my hair done,…
The Sad Saga Of Our Declining Democracy Continues
During the past year I have written many posts on the sad spectacle of a Canadian democracy in decline, citizen cynicism and apathy rather than vigorous engagement becoming the default…
What Does it Mean!?
It means nothing. It’s a poll, one of many, that shows the NDP leading the Conservatives as the Cons deal with a month of bad news (F35s, economy, robocalls, you…
Carig Cardiff show in Ottawa…
… a good cause and a great show to boot! A colleague’s wife is running a half marathon for cancer in Alaska in less than two months. As a fundraising…
NDP Bounce Will Hold
The latest Harris Decima poll cements a robust NDP, now at 34%(33% Apr 30) compared to the Conservatives at 30%(unchanged) and the Liberals at 20%(unchanged). Without seeing the internals we…
NDP have 34% of popular support, compared to 30% for the Conservatives
The next Federal Election is aways off but this story is important — especially the NDP strength in rural areas. Remember the NDP’s roots — a rural base is not…
The growth of independent thinking
What does this poll- which is consistent with many others, recently – mean? In my opinion, the rise of independents. Lots and lots of citizens no longer see themselves attached…
Rye Whiskey – Lubricating Canadian Politics Since 1769
Political genius in a bottle…or really, genius generally! So, I must admit to something right off the bat: I’m a whiskey on the rocks drinker. For those of you who…
Hold on There, History Ain’t Over
Electoral results last week in Europe indicate that the idea the free market capitalism and its close cousin, liberal democracy, have yet to conquer the world, leaving humanity in an…
The Phrase Freak: Moving Forward
This piece of hackery is most often heard in business settings, but I’m afraid it has even crept into the hallowed halls of academe, where one is as likely to…
CRA’s impartiality raised
This exchange from Hansard yesterday on the impartiality of the Canada Revenue Agency is well worth paying attention to and keeping in mind: Hon. Bob Rae (Toronto Centre, Lib.): Mr.…
MESSAGE AUX ARRÊTÉ(E)S DU 1ER MAI à MONTRÉAL de CLAC-Montréal
click here to read this in english Le 1er mai dernier, pendant et dans les heures suivant la manifestation anticapitaliste de la CLAC-Montréal (Convergence des luttes anticapitalistes), 107 personnes ont…
McCarthyism, Canadian Style
In Tuesday’s Huffington Post Cameron Fenton, National Director of the Canadian Youth Climate Coalition, wrote an excellent article about the Harper government’s hounding of environmentalists and First Nations opposed to…