The deification of Andrew Breitbart: BREITBART IS HERE!
In the movie Game Change, John McCain’s post-defeat words to Sarah Palin go something like this, “don’t get co-opted by Limbaugh and the other extremists. You’ll destroy the party.” True…
2012
“Twelve Going on Thirty” OR “Is the Globe and Mail the Worst Newspaper Yet?”
What do I have in common with a 12-year-old? Other than being alive, right now, in the same world, I’d like to wager ‘not a whole lot.’ Yet psychologist Jean…
Economics for Dummies: The scariest poet in Britain?
Funny, he doesn’t look so intimidating to me: But then again, I’m not a corporate tax dodger.
Friday morning Robocon blogging
I had fully intended to do a recap of the week’s news regarding the investigation into the possibility of vote suppression in last year’s federal election and yesterday afternoon I…
F-35 Lies From The Department of National Defence
Much to my surprise, the National Post has been doing a good job lately in covering Conservative misdeeds. While the Canadian taxpayer has been subjected to so many falsehoods and…
BCE to pay $3.38 billion for Astral Media 56 mins ago by Etan Vlessing
Columnist says that phone giant BCE has agreed to pay $3.38 billion for Astral Media to strengthen the telecom group’s content presence in Quebec against rival Quebecor Media.
Demanding what is just #nlpoli
For if it is to establish an order that citizens will agree to support, the state must go further than merely investigating their needs; it must also encourage them to…
The Looking Glass News #nlpoli
“The Lower Churchill hydro project has passed the environmental review process,” CBC news tells us, and as a result the project has cleared “… another hurdle to the Labrador power…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – On the Robocon front, Terry Milewski connects the dots between identification of voters as non-Con supporters and the deceptive robocalls that followed. Steven…
140Law – Legal Headlines for Friday, March 16, 2012
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Friday, March 16, 2012: Chief Justices of BC’s Three Courts Issue Joint Statement on Judicial Independence Bill C-377…
Ethical Oil Drops Da Bomb
Somebody is a genius. They even slip in a reference to the Vigna suit. Details on the video makers here.
Oshawa’s waterfront
I disagree with the general premise — Oshawa is a pretty good place and there's lots to do if you look. But … the waterfront is a problem and an…
Bell empire to expand
Bell Canada has agreed to buy Montreal-based Astral Media for $3.38 billion, adding a number of cable and specialty TV channels and nearly 100 radio stations to its media empire.
Facts implied by out of court statement may be hearsay
R. v. Baldree, 2012 ONCA 138 is an important decision holding hearsay may arise from statements implied by an out of court statement. This is something of a shift in Canadian law. Hearsay…
Harper’s War On Government
Stephen Harper has invited comparisons with Richard Nixon ever since he came to Ottawa. Lawrence Martin has admitted that the genesis of his latest book, Harperland, came from Rick Pearlstein’s…
Big Telecom gets bigger: Bell announces its purchase of Astral Media
Today Bell announced that it’s getting bigger; it will soon be in control of Astral Media, and the cellphone, Internet, land-line services, radio stations, and television holdings that come with…
The Smoke From That Gun Is Turning Into An Overpowering Stench
Despite the Harper regime’s steadfast denials over involvement in the voter suppression crimes and their attempts to divert suspicion onto the Liberals and NDP, evidence is mounting suggesting their complicity…
Robocalls and Voter identification – Department of the Bleeding Obivous
My Facebook and Twitter feeds are filled with variants of this CBC story noting that the people robocalled on election day as part of the effort to misdirect voters to…
Robocalls and Voter identification – Department of the Bleeding Obivous
My Facebook and Twitter feeds are filled with variants of this CBC story noting that the people robocalled on election day as part of the effort to misdirect voters to…
Robocalls and Voter identification – Department of the Bleeding Obivous
My Facebook and Twitter feeds are filled with variants of this CBC story noting that the people robocalled on election day as part of the effort to misdirect voters to…