Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Christopher Curtis and Stephen Maher break the news that the Cons have falsified donation records, claiming donations to their Laurier-Sainte-Marie riding association from individuals…
November 2012
140Law – Legal Headlines for Friday, November 23, 2012
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Friday, November 23, 2012: Top lawyers fear their profession is broken Canadian Employment Law Today: Transgender rights to…
Corporate Canada’s Best Friend
In yet another sign that, for Stephen Harper, profits come before people, the Globe and Mail reports that Ottawa is signaling a radical shift in foreign aid:The federal government is…
Watchdog to CBC: ‘Don’t prostitute your crown jewels’ by Olesia Plokhii
FRIENDS calls on the CRTC to deny CBC a new stream of advertising revenue and ensure the corporation has a contingency plan in place for the loss of a lucrative…
Merits of Crown’s case where bail is sought
R. v. Gingras 2012 BCCA 467 deals with whether strength of appeal should be considered on bail pending appeal. In the decision the Court makes a more general observation about…
buy nothing day: support striking walmart workers near you
One more paper plus one fundraiser for the Children's Book Bank will equal one more term behind me. Until then, I leave you with this excellent image of cultural imperialism,…
Conservatives Abandon Community Pasture Protection
If the Conservatives removed protection on all fish in the ocean, do you think there’d be an outcry of concern? What if they allowed every old tree to be cut…
Albanese supports Pupatello!
Go Sandra go! Last day to become a member, too!
I don’t like this particular bunch in government either, Justin
Sun News has decided it needs to help Joan Crockett, the CPC candidate in Calgary Centre’s by-election, from suffering an embarrassing loss for the Conservatives, so it dredged up a…
Grey Cup weekend feels like Rob Ford’s being given his last meal
By Monday noon, his political career could be dead. Fingers crossed.
Good for Vic Toews!
OTTAWA — Public Safety Minister Vic Toews has ordered the RCMP's commissioner to go back to the drawing board to rewrite an action plan to address damning findings of gender…
A Liberal From Alberta
A reader who I've have several good discussions with over e-mail recently wrote up a post on the Canadian Council for Democracy website, which I think everyone needs to see...."By…
Real Food Friday
* In recognition of American Thanksgiving yesterday, and National Buy Nothing Day today, here’s some food for thought on eating sustainably. Second generation food activist Anna Lappé has worked with…
Who Does Number Two Work For? #nlpoli
The House of Assembly on Thursday was sounding a wee bit like a cheesy remake of Austin Powers. Liberal leader Dwight Ball asked for an updated cost of Muskrat Falls…
Trends
A Failed Experiment, Nicholas D. Kristof, New York Times, Nov 21/12 "Since the 1950s, the top federal income tax rate has fallen from 90 percent or more to 35 percent.…
The PQ budget
On Tuesday, November 20th, the Parti Québécois released its first budget since taking office. This budget was widely anticipated in view of the many fiscal promises the PQ had made…
Reflections on the Articling Debate That Was
While I certainly didn't favour the Articling Task Force's majority recommendations that were adopted by the Law Society's Benchers at Convocation yesterday, I don't think it was a terrible outcome.…
NDP Opposes ‘Pay to Pay’ Billing
Bell Canada has begun imposing new fees on customers who receive paper copies of their bills. In April Internet customers were told that they would have to switch to online…