Marriage Goes Corporate.
If you live in a state that doesn’t allow you to marry your partner, there may be a solution — although it might not work in states with a marriage…
July 2012
The Moncton Times@Transcript – Good and Bad 2012-07-19 11:26:00
Today, Norbert has a quite amusing column on how we get confused about the words we think we heard in songs, as in “While shepherds washed their socks by night,…
Labour Losing to Capital
The just-released OECD Employment Outlook – full text not available on line – has an interesting chapter on the sharp decline of labour’s share of national income in virtually all…
Take a little Time out of Your Busy Schedule……
Romeo Dallaire, possible the only ex-Armed Forces biggie I could ever have any respect for, is sponsoring this petition to bring Omar Khadr home…it’s well past time for this to…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Vaughn Palmer discusses the unfortunate gap between the outrages that may lead to a government being pushed out of power, and a…
Heavy Metals, Acid Mine Drainage a Threat to Pacific Salmon Watersheds
Heavy metals and sulfuric acid, otherwise known as battery acid, or acid mine drainage, are toxic for wild salmon. That should be obvious, but after Bill C-38 – the federal…
Protected: The Newfoundland Legislature, Backbenchers, and the Infamous Paul Lane
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The Syrian Endgame: Bye Bye Bashar?
Who won’t celebrate the (probably nasty) end of Bashar al-Assad’s rule in Syria? This is a regime that has suppressed pretty much all forms of internal dissent and democratic participation…
Liberals up significantly in Quebec
This is (perhaps) significant. The NDP wave in Quebec was not so much a move to the NDP as a move away from everyone else. To keep their position the…
Blissful sleeper
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4901…Stephen Harper It Is Your Turn
To step up the the plate for a hockey hero. Mixed metaphor, eh? But still Mr. Prime Minister your help is needed. The whole deal was laid out in The…
New column day
Here, on Mitt Romney’s nine-figure individual retirement account – and the lessons we should learn for our own tax policy. For further reading…– D.M. Levine and William Cohan are among…
Felix Collins: laughingstock #nlpoli
labradore takes issue with a letter to the editor by justice minister Felix Collins. He systematically demonstrates that Collins’ claim about the “frivolous and vexatious” provisions in Bill 29 are…
EI Lags Unemployment
Today, Statistics Canada reported that 3,400 more Canadians received Employment Insurance (EI) benefits in May. It previously reported that unemployment rose by 8,000 that month. In other words, even more…
140Law – Legal Headlines for Thursday, July 19, 2012
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Thursday, July 19, 2012: Lori Douglas and George Zimmerman: the gender/race matrix BC Jury awards $573,000 punitive damages…
Something’s In The Air
In his review of Stephen Harper’s first year of majority rule, John Ibbitson wrote that the prime minister had been “unbound.” And the passage of the government’s omnibus budget bill…
Carcross-Tagish First Nation: this time it’s personal
From the Yukon News: Ottawa continues to turn down the Carcross/Tagish First Nation’s calls to negotiate a financial transfer agreement. With concerns that it will be broke by the fall,…
Bell says axing fee will hurt stations by Terry Pedwell
Columnist says the CRTC is doing away with a controversial fee charged by many cable and satellite companies to help improve local TV programming – and forcing them to stop…