Peckford Book Signings #nlpoli
Because some people have asked, here is a list of upcoming book signing opportunities by Brian Peckford for his memoir Some day the sun will shine and have not will…
October 2012
140Law – Legal Headlines for Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Tuesday, October 23, 2012: Experts guilty of not predicting quake, convicted of manslaughter by Italian court The end…
Shame
Last night, a number of people – many of them Jewish, in fact – drew to my attention the tweet below, authored by Sue-Ann Levy. When I saw it, I…
Debate Thoughts
“We have these things called aircraft carriers, where planes land on them,” Obama
Sue-Ann Levy, In Flames
Man, social media is just poison. Twitter destroys careers the way Facebook breaks up marriages. I’m almost feeling sorry for Sue-Ann Levy at this point. I’m just barely managing to…
Sherry of Wood Mountain
A well known Wood Mountain resident passed away recently after a long cancer illness. Sherry Mielke was a friend of my family, and it’s not going to be the same…
The Unexamined Treaty
Lawrence Martin writes in The Globe and Mail that Canada will soon sign a trade agreement which the Harper government has kept completely under wraps. And unlike NAFTA — which…
Bike Lanes Save Lives and Lower Risk from Cars
It should come as no surprise that bike lanes are safer than merging bicycle traffic with heavy metal boxes on wheels. A new study from the University of British Columbia…
Conrad Black, Vito Rizzuto, but Not Omar Khadr?
Vito Rizzuto who recently finished a prison term in the US for involvement in a gangland killing, was whisked back to Canada as soon as he stepped out of jail.…
As You Sow: Coal Investments, Shale Gas, a Bad Bet
In a missive titled “White Paper: Financial Risks of Investments in Coal,” As You Sow concludes that coal is becoming an increasingly risky investment with each passing day. The fracking…
Aggregation Workflow in gRSShopper
A few points: First, on workflow, which is the topic of this post. Here’s how gRSShopper currently works. It’s more detailed than suggested in the post, but contains the same…
Clown Apocalypse: The Clownsickle
One of the worst things about the clown apocalypse was just sorting out the sick from the opportunistic psycho-killers, who used the disaster to cover their own heinous activities. Many…
Canadians Answer The Call To Defend Our Coast While Climate Silence Reigns South of Border
It was a cool rainy day in Victoria, British Columbia yesterday, but that didn’t stop thousands of people from coming out to the B.C. Legislature to show both the provincial…
To all of those Con and Dipper detractors…
… who screeched that the Premier of Ontario was but a power-crazed coward for resigning his post, I say: HA! Turns out he only wants to spend more time with…
Go For It
The next premier of Ontario will almost certainly face a spring election. I like elections. In fact I don’t think we have enough of them. In fact between elections I…
Oxford Properties Building New RBC Headquarters
Can your landlord help your business attract talents, reduce environmental footprint, and foster team collaboration? Royal Bank of Canada aims to achieve all that with its new Canadian headquarters in…
He would’ve been a contender
…and I can tell you that senior Conservatives were quite unenthusiastic about him as federal leader. But that’s that.
When engineering becomes imagineering #nlpoli
Nalcor issued a news release on Monday to correct inaccurate statements about the water management agreement between Nalcor and Churchill Falls (Labrador) Corporation. Sounds good, except that Nalcor didn’t identify…