Per Deschamps, Abella, Rothstein and MoldaverJJ.: W asks this Court to disqualify the votes of several Canadian citizens on account of administrative mistakes, notwithstanding evidence that those citizens were entitled…
Supreme Court upholds Conservative win in Toronto riding Conservative MP Ted Opitz will keep his Etobicoke Centre seat, as Canada’s top court today upheld his narrow 2011 election victory despite…
I know judges. I have worked for and with judges. I have appeared before judges. Judges don’t like supplant the peoples’ judgement with their own. Even when the facts and…
Here, on the increasing attempts of executive government at all levels to declare democracy irrelevant – and how strong grassroots party structures may be the key to reversing the tide.…
“I’m sorry little boy. This is an Oilers-only campaign.” It appears Daryl Katz has a thing for crumbling dynasties: Billionaire Oilers owner Katz gave $430,000 to Alberta PCs Billionaire entrepreneur…
Listening to a professor of “language” on CBC this morning complain about the “gradual extinction” of French, I was struck by a number of things. First of all I was…
Budget Implementation Bill To Be Studied By 9 Committees: via HuffPost http://huff.to/QGcI1W Big f.. .king deal. As if this sham process makes one damn bit of difference, but, hey, all…
The decline in the quality of public life in our province over the past decade is matched by a decline in other places across Canada and in Ottawa. For those…
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Richard Thaler criticizes Mitt Romney’s obsession with upper-end tax cuts by pointing out the factors which actually serve to encourage innovation and…
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Thursday, October 25, 2012: Supreme Court of Canada set to rule on Ted Opitz vs. Borys Wrzesnewskyj –…
The live webcast is here. Start time is 9:30. My opening salvo is here. What do you think? – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net…
When the latest Nanos poll came out showing a resurgent Liberal Party, it showed a strong uptick in Ontario and British Columbia. Strangely absent from the Nanos Trudeaumania party was…
Follow the money. October 23, PBS Frontline’s Climate of Doubt gave viewers an hour’s coverage of the tactics of climate anti-science, its advocates and a quick look into the funding…
Excerpt from the Brainipedia mentograph entry on Wall Street, circa 2020: It wasn’t until the early years of the 2020s that our pre-singularity hominid ancestors realized they should not allow…
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This isn’t what Nanos found, as I recall. But, wow.
Well,it finally happened: On Thursday October 11, 2012, Toronto’s Roma Community Centre officially reported a hate crime to the Toronto Police Services and an investigation is now underway. This was…
What Stephen Harper has proven in his six year tenure as Prime Minister of Canada, particularly during his 18 months leading a majority government in the House of Commons, is…
