Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Jessica Bruno reports on Tom Mulcair’s first six months as leader of the NDP. But while it’s certainly a plus for pundits to…
August 2012
Dear Ms. Coyne
You couldn’t win when you did run in a former Liberal stronghold. And you ran, and then quit, two times after that. Strikes one, two, three. Stick to being a…
Judicial discretion and appellate review
Aliant Inc. v. Ellph.com Solutions Inc., 2012 NSCA 89 deals with security for costs. In so doing the Court undertook an extensive examination of the exercise of judicial discretion and…
More on Layton and the NDP
Rabson’s more diplomatic than I was, and she makes a point I didn’t: the NDP isn’t entirely to blame for attempting to capitalize on Jack Layton’s passing. The media, says…
140Law – Legal Headlines for Monday, August 27, 2012
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Monday, August 27, 2012: Gritty N.J. city of Camden to scrap police department amid budget woes (Perry Chiaramonte/Fox…
I’m thinking about setting up…
… a separate photo blog. I’ve become much more interested in iPhone photography lately using Instagram and would like to have a platform to post them to. I have tried…
war resisters campaign rebooted: resisters at risk: please donate if you can
After a period of calm in the cases of U.S. Iraq War resisters, things are quickly coming to a head. War resister Kimberly Rivera and her family will receive a…
Built to NOT Last – Movie Monday
So, most of us have been there at some point, standing at an Ikea asking ourselves “do I need yet another Billy bookcase?” We know it will be of the…
I really hope that Hurricane…
… Issac doesn’t completely wreck the Republican Convention in Tampa! I really do. Because if it does, then we will be left without such fine examples of how freaking crazy…
5094…Vegas Reacts To L’Affair Prince Harry
From The USA Today WFDS
Antarctic Temperature Increases Caused By Urban Heat Island Effect?
It’s tough being a climate change denier these days. The original CRU Hack managed to spread a season’s worth of FUD, true, but since then every successive release of “damning”…
Neil Armstrong 1930-2012
A profile of the first human to walk on the moon, from 60 Minutes: -srbp-
5093…Simon Fraser Goes Big Time
Simon Fraser, the Vancouverish based university, will, as of September 1/2012, become the first Canadian uni to become a full member of the NCAA. Will this open the floodgates and…
5092…There’s Gonna Be A Jailbreak In Tampa
As in a jail break. The powers that be in Tampa, the home of the imminent Republican coronation of Mitt Romney, need space to house those pesky protesters who will…
The big Curiosity update
A lot has happened in the past few weeks on Mars. First of all we have much more high resolution videos of the entry decent and landing: And amazing self…
Mitt Romney and Wrath of Lord Mo Mo
Golly. I've spent the last two days sacrificing one shrimp after the other on the barbie. To the eternal glory of the angry weather god Lord Mo Mo. Hoping that…
Québec – What happens after a vote for independence?
For some, perhaps for most, the question of Québec separation is a dead issue. There are many who believe that the referendum in 1995 was the last kick at the…
Mr. Bentley’s disingenuous argument
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved Used by Permission. Well, after a bit of a flurry, talk about Todd Bentley being banned from entering the UK might be dying down…
revolutionary thought of the day
Revolutionary thought of the day: A voice cried out, I was killed in Maryland in 1877 When the railroad workers made their stand Well, I was killed in 1963 one…