140Law – Legal Headlines for Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Wednesday, March 7, 2012: The Myth of Due Diligence by Lawyers in the Cloud Master MacLeod Discusses Appropriate…
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Defeat from the Jaws of Victory?
“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich and the poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.” – Anatole France As…
The all-gas mask revival of Hamlet
The 1937 all-gas mask revival of Hamlet at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre would have probably gone down in the annals of theatre history as the best all-gas mask production —…
Guess Who Doesn’t Support Our Troops?
If you guessed Stephen Harper’s Conservative Party, you are correct. While dear leader and company pull out all of the rhetorical stops about supporting the troops when it serves their…
Exploring Economics
Food for thought … he economists’ tragedy: The ambition to create the ultimate model results in a theory of human behaviour which cannot hold unless the humans populating the model…
In And Out With Robotic Precision
This vote to limit Elections Canada’s power, was before RoboCon came to wider public light? Makes you wonder if that’s why they are dropping this ridiculous lawsuit? And they’re allegedly…
The Drums Are Getting Louder
The beat goes on. And it gets louder. Mitt Romney claims that President Obama is a weakling: “If Barack Obama is re-elected,” Romney robotically swaggered in Georgia, “Iran will have…
Blog geek stuff – external voting button for Prog Blog
One of the features we’ve been trying to resurrect since “new” Progressive Bloggers went up is the ability for external votes to work on people’s blogs.. so they can have…
Checking Jerome’s Numbers #nlpoli
In the House of Assembly on Tuesday, natural resources minister Jerome Kennedy said: The Muskrat Falls Generating Station will cost $2.9 billion and the Labrador-Island Link will cost $2.1 billion.…
If CPoC Central Contols Local Voters Lists
…as Tory MP Vellacott indicates, then this makes it more likely that Robocon was planned by someone close to the center of the party rather than via fringe players. It…
information please
In at least one respect, I am a born librarian. Friends have said there should be a sign over my head: INFORMATION. Everywhere I go, people ask me for directions.…
A controversial facebook status
I’m shamelessly copying and pasting this from a friend’s Facebook status. As you might expect, it generated some controversy there, and I’m curious to hear what you think. “There’s a…
Upper deck of…
… OC Transpo #40! Yeah, I’m just a kid at heart! Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Netflix in Talks With Cable Operators About Distribution Deals (Report) by Georg Szalai
A cable deal for Netflix would increase its competition with HBO, but one analyst says it could be a sign of weakening subscriber trends.
Hudak wants to order Toronto to build subways, not streetcars
Subways are wonderful. I'd be glad if Toronto had a subway system just as good as New York or London. But even if Mayor Ford's proposal proceeded we'd only have…
Dundernomics 101: The Cleary Factor #nlpoli
The gang at CBC shouldn’t feel sheepish. They might have been the ones who pushed it most aggressively but they weren’t the only news outlet that started talking up budget…
Dropping the In & Out appeal
The Conservatives have quietly decided to drop their appeal at the Supreme Court over the In & Out affair, and they’re paying back the money they owe to Elections Canada…
For #NDPLDR, It’s Thomas Mulcair or Bust
I made a Storify story out of my most recent decision to support Thomas Mulcair for NDP leader but seem to be having some trouble embedding it to my wordpress…