5249…A True Progressive Conservative Dies
Lincoln Alexander. He was great. Light a candle. WFDS
October 2012
Advertising Offensive, Or Offensive Advertising?
The newspapers I read have been full of advertising from the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers with pictures of attractive “real” people extolling the virtues of the Alberta Oil Sands…
Grace
The sun crested the dry, brown autumn hills this morning and flooded my bedroom with a rich orange light. Clouds streaked with pink and crimson lay brilliant behind the skeletons…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content for your Friday reading. – In writing recently about employer efforts to intimidate workers into backing corporate-friendly candidates, I figured that the best examples we’d see would come…
A Sympton of Cowardice
Some commentators such as Jeffrey Simpson have praised Dalton McGuinty for leaving politics at a time of his choosing, on terms of his choosing. But there are others — even…
Stephen Harper and Principle #nlpoli
Premier Kathy Dunderdale, from her unscripted speech at the Tory party annual meeting, via the Telegram’s James McLeod: We didn’t support the Harper government, people of Newfoundland and Labrador didn’t.…
140Law – Legal Headlines for Friday, October 19, 2012
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Friday, October 19, 2012: Making legal education more practical while containing costs Video: Jon Stewart Challenges Obama On…
Mitigation of damages
Southcott Estates Inc. v. Toronto Catholic District School Board, 2012 SCC 51 is an important decision on mitigation of damages. It upholds the modern law requiring mitigation in contract in…
SFH at Strummerfest!
We’ve been asked to play at Strummerfest in K-W, on the tenth anniversary of his passing. Practiced last night. Our ‘Bubbles’ video, for those who care what we still sound…
In yesterday lies today
Now, then.
Strategy questions
Is it ever a good idea to attack the guy without whom you wouldn’t have been elected in the first place? The guy you left high and dry to go…
Random Friday musings
– I wished Dalton Mcguinty well a few days ago, but the reason (or one of the reasons) I soured on him and hte Ontario Liberals is they seemed to…
It’s Time To Get Real About The Risks Of Dirty Energy
Tomorrow is the day that the largest tar sands protest in Canadian history is to take place, in Victoria, British Columbia, to defend our coast from the dangers of Enbridge’s…
A Mythbuster’s Rebuttal: Transmission Lines, Holyrood Oil and Renewable Resources
I have to give Ed Hollett credit… he is a sharp minded fellow. After my blog on Tuesday where I purport to debunk three myths on Muskrat Falls, Hollett responded…
Sally’s Cove, Labrador #nlpoli
During the last federal election two polling stations in the riding of Labrador closed for two hours after an Elections Canada worker drove away with the ballot boxes, according to…
What’s the point of an election law if it can be violated with impunity by government officials?
CBC has been doing superb work researching financial improprieties with respect to the election campaign of the Harper regime’s Intergovernmental Affairs Minister, Peter Penashue of Labrador, for some months now.…
Supermax hellholes: solitary confinement in US prisons
The US has the highest documented incarceration rate in the world. It breaks down to about 754 per 100,000 (2009 figures). By way of comparison Canada had 117 per 100,000…
Jimbo Flaherty and the Con Man Budget
Well I've got to hand it to that old Con man Jimbo Flaherty. When he's not screaming at the opposition, or giving the Europeans the finger, or standing on a…