No One is asking “Where’s the Beef?”
XL Foods targeted for takeover by Brazilian company CBC online Oct. 18, 2012 If anyone in this country needed to rationalize the road to vegetarianism for any reason at all,…
October 2012
Mitt Romney: "binder full of women."
Very popular subject on Twitter as it went viral. Here is one example of such a tweet.
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Annie Lowrey reports on the evidence showing that the perpetually-increasing inequality pitched by the right as an economic plan actually serves to…
New column day
Here, following up on this blog post as to how we should expect a huge increase in Regina’s municipal election turnout both for the sake of good governance, and for…
Leadership 2013 Roundup
One might have thought that the final days of municipal elections around the province would make for a relatively quiet stretch in the Saskatchewan NDP leadership campaign. But instead, it…
The Dangers of Being a Mythbuster – 50 is the new 70 #nlpoli
Look around and anyone can find a huge amount of information about Muskrat Falls and electricity in Newfoundland and Labrador. For all that, though, there is a great deal of…
And that’s where I stopped reading
I scanned through this article at iPolitics far enough to make sure that I wasn’t just objecting to something projected onto it by a copy editor whose headline didn’t reflect…
Effective Corporate Tax Rate Falling
Further to my earlier post critiquing the recent Mintz study – which argued that cuts in corporate tax rates are not significantly denting corporate tax revenues – I looked up…
Conscience and Credibility
Amid the cynical furor of Canadian politics, Andrew Coyne singles out four people — three men and one woman — who have credibility because they are guided by conscience, not…
140Law – Legal Headlines for Thursday, October 18, 2012
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Thursday, October 18, 2012: Apple Loses Tablet Copyright Appeal Against Samsung U.S. court ruling casts doubt on Omar…
Southern Baptists won’t sell Glorieta Conference Center to David Jang’s Olivet University
The Tennessean: LifeWay spokesman Marty King told the paper that a National Association of Evangelicals report on Olivet’s theological compatibility with the Southern Baptist Convention’s resources arm, commissioned by LifeWay…
Ask General Kang: How do I keep my two-year-old son from killing his mother (my wife)?
First off, you probably need to untie her and let her run away from the frisky little tyke. Oh and stop giving him knives to play with. By the way,…
My prayer is to the One who may not even hear
Still, I say it H. Leivick
The Challenge of Perspective #nlpoli
From Kathy Dunderdale’s unscripted speech to Conservative party delegates at the 2012 annual meeting: Only the people who love us very much will be around when we finish this job…
Sovereign Grace Ministries hit with class action lawsuit
Finally. WASHINGTON – Three female plaintiffs claim an evangelical church group covered up allegations of sexual abuse against children, failed to report accusations to the police and discouraged its members…
Ontario Employment Law: Punitive Damages In Wrongful Dismissal Suits
In Pate Estate v. Galway-Cavendish and Harvey (Townships), decided in November 2011 after 10 years of protracted litigation, a wrongfully dismissed building inspector’s estate was awarded a whopping $550,000.00 in…
Ontario Employment Law: Employer’s Reliance on Termination Provisions Limiting Notice In Summary Judgment Motions
In McKinstry v. Stone, decided September 20, 2011, Pollak J. considered the burden of proof upon an employer seeking summary dismissal of an employee’s wrongful dismissal claim, where the employer…
Ontario Employment Law: Layoffs and Deemed Terminations at Common Law
In Jadubir v. Martinrea International Inc., decided March 29, 2012, a tool and dye maker was laid off without recall after 15 years of service, and was never recalled to…