Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- David Macdonald takes a closer look at a Fraser Institute study on income mobility, and finds strong evidence that there's a significant lack of…
2012
5362…Only In Quebec
Quebec is, of course, the one place on the planet where the unthinkable happens on a regular basis.I don't know if you saw the front page of The National Post…
Something Stupid
Tom Walkom writes, in this morning's Toronto Star, that Stephen Harper is a victim of his own success. That was the reason he and Jim Flaherty were sending mixed messages…
Our Carbon Pollution: Is It Different From Raw Sewage?
In a very short time – years or at most decades – humans will look back at our spewing of carbon pollution into the atmosphere with the same disgust and…
Sensible Taxation
If we lived in Dr. Pangloss's "best of all possible worlds," I suspect that I would be a fairly conservative fellow. After all, in such a world those who worked…
saturday across canada: end the siege of gaza
This Saturday, across Canada and around the world, people will gather to condemn Israel's massacre of Gaza. The call:Stop Israel's war on Gaza!Stop the killing. End the blockade. Free Palestine.…
PEH Liberals and Fight The Right!
They came far, and it was greatly appreciated!
Second US Tar Sands Mine, Owned by Former ExxonMobil and Chevron Exec., Approved in Utah
MCW Enterprises Ltd., a Canada-based corporation, announced on Nov. 19 that it has received all necessary permits to streamline tar sands extraction at its Asphalt Ridge plant located in Vernal,…
Shale Gas Bubble About to Burst: Art Berman, Bill Powers
Food and Water Watch recently demonstrated that the dominant narrative, "100 years" of unconventional oil and gas in the United States, is false. At most, some 50 years of this…
The general costs principle of ‘loser pays’ applies in estate litigation
Salter v. Salter, 2009 CanLII 28403 has a useful comment on costs in estate litigation matters (note, I have not "loser pays" applied frequently in estate matters but the case…
George Brown grads win class-action suit over misleading course description
It is quite extraordinary for a college or university to be held liable -- this is a remarkable case: Full storyA group of graduates has won a class-action suit against…
Get the Kindle edition of The Fridgularity FREE, today through Friday
Seriously, you can get the Kindle edition of my new novel for FREE, today through Friday only. I just think you’re that awesome. More details about The Fridgularity are available…
Dr. Kelly Blidook Cautious on Muskrat Falls Polls
Over the past couple of days we’ve seen two polls released pertaining to public support of Muskrat Falls: one by CRA and the other by MQO. The CRA poll consisted…
The Many Faces of Stephen Harper
Oh boy. Colour me purple. I see that some professor has finally figured out what I've known all along.Stephen Harper employs a small army of people to try to make…
I Snuck In Through The Globe Pay-wall…
...and found this:The first thing you’ll want to do on checking in at the new Four Seasons Toronto spa is get wet. Urban hotel pools that don’t look like public…
Support but lacking sufficient information – the NTV/MQO Poll #nlpoli
The more questions you ask, the more information you get. The more information you have, the more accurate a picture you can draw of anything. In this case, it’s public…
Questions, questions
A couple of days ago, I renewed my membership (and by ABC monthly donation) with the Ontario Liberals, which means that I have a fairly good chance of becoming a…
The Cons and the Gaza Horror
It was the bloodiest day so far in the living nightmare that is Gaza.More rockets, more bombs, more horrifying violence.First there were six ambulances, one after the other, unloading the…
Newspaper Paywalls and the Absurd Overreach of Conservative Copyright Reform
I’ve been thinking through how to write this post for a while. I hope I don’t regret it. But recently a commenter forced the issue, and I had to censor…