Jesse Kline: Online spying in the U.K.
The U.K., which is already a hotbed of surveillance, is looking to expand their online spying regime in a way that’s very similar to what we may be facing here…
June 2012
My On-Going Adventures with Portuguese
The morning show I listen to has a segment most days between 5:30-5:45 from cities around the world in which a popular song of the moment is played for a…
Is China Grooming Africa for Half a Billion Surplus Chinese?
The theory, published in Asia Times, is that Chinese authorities have figured out their homeland can support a population of 700-million, max. With current numbers at 1.2-billion, China has to…
Over 120 Lawyers Ask for Proposed Environmental Changes to be Removed from Bill C-38
You would think that such a significant resistance from the law community might have an effect on the Regime’s thinking, but don’t count on it. The goal is the full…
Rounding the Square Pegs
Rounding square pegs. That, in a nutshell, is the message being delivered by the Royal Society and 104 other national science academies, to delegates of the Rio+20 Earth Summit if…
TVO’s The Agenda: Forgiving the Unforgivable – Akaash Maharaj Videocast
Our capacity to do violence to one another is the worst tragedy of the human condition, but it makes our still greater capacity to forgive one another all the more…
TVO’s The Agenda: Forgiving the Unforgivable – Akaash Maharaj Videocast
Our capacity to do violence to one another is the worst tragedy of the human condition, but it makes our still greater capacity to forgive one another all the more…
Was Andrew Cuomo’s NY Fracking "Sacrifice Zone" Plan Hatched by NRDC?
shutterstock_15465343 (2).jpg Has New York Governor Andrew Cuomo just made the southern tier of the state a "sacrifice zone," as alleged by award-winning author and "fracktivist," Sandra Steingraber? Was it…
An Independent M.P. Condemns Harper Omnibus Bill
I was just reading my weekly community paper, and my M.P., the disingenuous David Sweet, indulges in a debasement of language befitting Orwell’s 1984. For example, despite the tremendous havoc…
BlackBerry maker Research in Motion is giving Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis a $12 million golden parachute
I know I know, we must never complain about the way capitalism distributes wealth because the market is always right… A company filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission…
Justin Trudeau…
… will he or won’t he? I haven’t a clue and don’t pretend otherwise. But Warren Kinsella does have some insights and recently (as in “today”) outlined 10 Reasons why…
Eye of Scheer over Peace Tower of Sauron #LordOfTheBills
What’s going on inside the House of Commons today is no laughing matter. In fact, Minister Tony Clement told me that if I don’t like his joking about the step…
Your Law School called… #nlpoli
The more they talk, the worse it gets. In the House of Assembly on Thursday, justice minister Felix Collins gave some examples of what he would consider "frivolous and vexatious”…
West Coast goes to Ottawa to talk about how the Omnibus Bill will harm Canada
Thursday, June 14, 2012 On May 31, 2012, I travelled to Ottawa, on behalf of West Coast Environmental Law Association, to speak in person about the budget bill’s attack on…
How to codify anti-discrimination in law
This is great: Ontario amends Human Rights Code to extend protections to transgender people, but really, can’t it be possible to write the law in such a way that we…
Contrarian optimism and the omnibus ballet
The Canadian economy, ‘the envy of the world‘. Remember that? Of course that in itself was a complete lie more of which is revealed all the time. But who needs…
Musings on the Dr. Dawg case
“Nonetheless, although the respondents come close to asserting – but do not quite assert – that “anything goes” in these types of exchanges, is that the case in law? Do…
4740…"Have you stopped beating your wife yet?"
That’s what David Stern, the commish of the NBA, talking smack, asked Jim Rome on today’s The Jim Rome Show, heard in Ottawa on The Team 1200. Ouch. Deadspin reports…
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