Explaining Council Expenses
Tip of the hat to Ian Adams for clearing up any misrepresentation of council’s expenses and clarifying some information, in his most recent blog post. The total council expense allotment…
December 2012
A Christmas Message
As a retired teacher, I am well familiar with the works of Charles Dickens. Although his literary legacy is one of predominantly lengthy works, he is probably best remembered for…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – Michael Harris asks why Stephen Harper is afraid to look Theresa Spence in the eye: (Harper) believes that the government’s lying about all…
5457…The G Is Not Silent
Sister Johanna, my grade 3 teacher at St. Mary’s, wasn’t playing when she said to pronounce the “g” in laughing, boating, swimming etc.Too bad Florida woman Renee Durette did not…
ConCalls: I’ll Be Gone For Christmas
I’ll be around, but justice will be working on its homework, and set to deliver their assignment about 600 days late. Marks may be deducted for lack of punctuality. The…
5456…Christmas Eve In America; Bang Bang
Ray Heard Retweeted Breaking News (@BreakingNews): Update: 2 firefighters shot and killed after incident in Webster, New York; 2 other firefighters hospitalized after being shot – @News10NBC WFDS
Best Wishes
To all fellow bloggers and visitors of my blog.
Now we finally know the real price of milk, thanks to the teabags
We’re all familiar with the concept of a loss leader — a store will deliberately price key products to a price below cost, often way below cost. This is to…
Next meme please
Here is something heart-warming for Christmas. Maybe I still have a Dexter hangover. Filed under: art, digital, drawing, illustration Tagged: Are you happy now?, Cat, Grumpy cat, meme, Tard, Tarder…
Meanwhile, Just Below the Surface, Canadian Discontent Builds
Canadians are quietly simmering. A poll finds a majority of Canadians now support grassroots protests as a vehicle to force political action. The majority of respondents said they supported grassroots…
If you’re serious about ideas… #nlpoli
then get serious about blogging. From the Harvard Business Review: Writing is still the clearest and most definitive medium for demonstrating expertise on the web. But as thought leaders like…
Merry Christmas to all..
A Very Merry Christmas from me to all of you, my readers. May it bring happiness to you, or make things a little less sad. And.. if you’re down from…
Merry Christmas to All
Dear Friends Got to wrap a few presents and make potato sausage before everyone comes over, so there won‘t be much blogging for the next few days. Best wishes from…
Doomsday Prophets Have Got It Wrong: Krugman"s Got It Right Again
Fiscal conservatives and the Mayan calendar nuts: both wrong in their prophecies, Paul Krugman says once again: ” The key thing we need to understand, however, is that the prophets…
A final order is one which disposes of a substantive issue in the litigation
1250264Ontario Inc. v. Pet Valu Canada Inc., 2012 ONCA 901 sets out the test for determining if an order is final: The test to be applied for deciding this issue…
A Reader’s Response
Two days ago, I published a post on Stephen Harper and guns. Yesterday, I received an email from a reader. That term, while accurate, is a bit misleading. Like me,…
Limiting instruction to jury necessary even where no objection to evidence made
R. v. Chamot, 2012 ONCA 903 deals with a case where no objection was made to bad character evidence in a criminal jury trial. The Court held the failure to…
Chief Spence and the Way forward. . . .
I have not blogged much lately because it seems to me that there is a story that is so big that it has taken the wind out of my sails…
Everyone has heard of the “fiscal cliff”…
in America. But they are tumbling toward the precipices of other cliffs as well. How about the “sanity cliff” or maybe the “culture cliff”? Or the “society cliff”… After reading…