Definition of indigent
Foote v. Canada (Attorney General), 2012 BCCA 253 provides a helpful definition of indigent. The concept is relevant across the law, being relevant for security for costs, costs generally and…
June 2012
I don’t really like the term “nanny state”…
… but it is very much appropriate here! Why is it that whenever there is a hot button issue that seems to fall under the rubric as counter to the…
Free Post-Secondary Education & Change
There is a reason to oppose free post-secondary education, and that is the unwillingness to change. Though a majority of Canadians offer justifications for opposing free post-secondary education, the problem…
140Law – Legal Headlines for Thursday, June 14, 2012
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Thursday, June 14, 2012: Law Society’s Innovative Website Helps Parents and Children Involved in a Family Breakdown Judge:…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – The OECD is the latest independent observer to confirm Thomas Mulcair’s point that dutch disease is a real problem for Canadian manufacturing.…
What about that Liberal national executive meeting?
News of Bob Rae’s decision not to contest the permanent leadership overshadowed what would otherwise have been the major story in Liberal circles Wednesday: the much-awaited meeting of the Liberal…
New column day
Here, on what we should learn from the recent spate of Alberta oil spills. For further reading…– Stephen Hume finds that Alberta’s pipelines have spilled roughly 28 million litres of…
Haunting Memories
I guess we are all haunted sometimes by things we have done in the past. When I was a graduating high school student, I was lucky to have a summer…
A good decision for Bob Rae and for the Liberal Party
I was out and about all day yesterday so I haven’t had a chance to weigh-in yet on Bob Rae’s announcement that he won’t seek the permanent leadership of the…
Sign, Sign, Everywhere a Sign
A few pictures and signs from last night’s protest near Conservative M.P David Sweet’s constituency office. As in the previous protest against Bill C- 38, we were prevented from demonstrating…
Leave my Justin alone!
Looks like a host of fools did not get the memo. Either that or they, like my mother, don't listen when someone speaks. Justin Trudeau is not interested in running…
Harper v. Canada: Stephen Harper Addresses Right Wing U.S. Think Tank
Understanding the Canadian prime minister’s war against our democratic institutions, freedoms and legitimate dissent Editor’s Note: In June 1997, Stephen Harper addressed a Montreal meeting of the Council for National…
A Full Frontal Assault
Bill C-38 is no ordinary piece of legislation. It is a full frontal assault on Canadian institutions and Canadian workers. That point is made this morning by two men from…
Who Will Be The "Unite The Left" Candidate?
You can really sense a buzz within certain quarters as people digest the potentialities within the Liberal leadership race. Our media class seems intrigued, as evidenced again yesterday within the…
Alberta Oil Sands Fly-Over: We Can Do Better
We can do better. Let’s honour past, present and future generations. It’s time for cleaner options for energy production. Singer-songwriter Jennifer Berezan, eco-philosopher Joanna Macy and Catholic activist Anne Symens-Bucher…
Trudeau ten
Seeing as how everybody else is writing about Justin Trudeau, and seeing as how I’m a Liberal, I figured I’d do likewise in a column or something on the weekend.…
First Post-Election Alberta Poll: 39% PC, 36% WRP
Forum Research, which was sadly the pollster with the closest numbers in the April election this year in Alberta, has become the first pollster out-of-the-gates in the run up to…
Time Travel Sucks
If you asked him, Bertie could never really tell you what he disliked most about time travel. Obviously, having to arrive in each new era stark naked was not the…
If You Put Harper Under This Kind Of Pressure He’d Be Twitching By Now
There are few politicians around today, who are both this accessible and this unflappable whist being pursued so vigorously by the stalkerazzi. If it was me, I’d be havin’ the…
The morning after
Interesting report last night on CBC’s The National for those still looking for some more news on the big story of yesterday. Notably, a certain MP who has been keeping…