4968…Quebec Elex Is A Pick ’em
Numbers I saw this morning were 33/31/20 something, PQ/PLQ/CAQ. It truly is anyone’s to win or lose. Elections are fun, doncha think? WFDS
August 2012
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Mitchell Anderson reports on how Norway has assured itself of long-term fiscal security by saving a fair share of its oil resources:…
4967…Happy Birthday Boss
Bob Rae is older today than he was yesterday. I did the math. Happy birthday. WFDS
They send mail
Lawyers, that is. Nancy Leblanc at Impolitical reproduces the text of an open letter to Jason Kenney signed by more than 80 Ontario lawyers. They seem to be a bit…
New column day
Here, on how the Gateway pipeline serves as a prime example as to why governments shouldn’t be too quick to minimize environmental assessment processes. For further reading…– Robyn Allan’s latest…
The cut-throat world of economics #nlpoli
Anyone who attended Wade Locke’s presentation on Muskrat Falls got a tiny glimpse of the vicious world that is modern academics. it came in the unusually large bit where Locke…
New neighbours, old garbage
Remember when you were a little kid, and a new family would move onto your street? You’d stand there watching the moving truck being unloaded, looking for clues about the…
Resuming the blog
I apologize that my posting rate has dropped to zero. It has been an incredibly hectic summer. I finally finished my book and have begun paying off my time debt…
An incredible milestone in the push against the TPP’s Internet trap
Thanks to all of you who have added your name to the petition at http://StopTheTrap.net/, and those who have taken the crucial step of spreading the word, the global pro-Internet…
140Law – Legal Headlines for Thursdsay, August 2, 2012
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Thursday, August 2, 2012: Tweeting allowed in B.C. courts, but it won’t be a tweet-for-all’ Punk band Pussy…
Are Conservatives Inherently More Biased than Liberals? The Scientific Debate Rages On
Republican Brain.jpg In the first round of critical reactions to my book The Republican Brain, there wasn’t much to impress. As I related at AlterNet, the general conservative response to…
What We Missed: OWS Declaration of the Occupation of New York City
This document was accepted by the NYC General Assembly on September 29, 2011, with minor updates made on October 1, 2011. It is the first official, collective statement of the…
Guys – it’s the SUMMER OLYMPICS!!!
“You said hockey was an Olympic sport” — “Yes, but I never said it was on the games in London!”
Jason Kenney faces legal uprising over Conrad Black visa
More than 80 lawyers have signed an open letter to Immigration Minister Jason Kenney challenging his insistence he played no role in granting Conrad Black a permit to live in…
DirecTV Posts First-Ever Quarterly U.S. Subscriber Decline by Georg Szalai
The satellite TV giant lost 52,000 U.S. video customers in the second quarter, but hit an all-time user growth record in Latin America.
Big Telecom’s Power Grab | Weekly News Update from OpenMedia.ca
Hello! Here’s Lindsey with your update: As big telecom company Bell gets set to take over Astral Media, we’re likely to be seeing even higher prices, tighter contracts, and more…
Another No
A week after the premiers invited Stephen Harper to their next meeting on the economy, he rejected the invitation — again. He does G8 and G20 summits. And he certainly…
Even lawyers…
…80 of them, in fact, are sure that CPC attack dawg, Jason Kenney, lied about his involvement in the “repatriation” of Conrad Black! Watch out J-boy! When 4 score of…
John Kasich For VP? Part 1
This is a part of my continuing quest to research every possible VP pick before Romney announces them. Today I will analyse John Kasich. He is the governor of Ohio.…
The Mash-Up Mentality
With derivative art invading our cultural spaces like never before, is this the start of a new artistic movement or the death of originality? In 1951, the science-fiction writer Theodore…