2012
Harper and same-sex marriage: part deux?
The Justice Department’s position that same-sex marriages of foreigners in Canada are invalid is bunk, but the law does not need changing. Apologists for the Department of Justice’s argument—including journalist…
Media’s anti-Occupy stance revealed. More than half of Canadians support the movement.
By reading 90% of the Canadian media, you’d have thought the people who Occupied cities across Canada and the world were unemployable dirty fucking hippies intent on violence and rape.…
Downtime
I’m not writing much here these days, but since it generated a few emails yesterday, here’s a link to a piece in yesterday’s Western Star with a very general overview…
Doctrine of nemo dat quod non habet plays very limited, if any, role under PPSA
Lisec America, Inc. v. Barber Suffolk Ltd., 2012 ONCA 37 is a good source for the principle that common law title plays little if any role in determining priority rights…
Tasers: a weapon of the oppressor
A just-released study has demonstrated what many of us already knew to be true: a Taser is the police cattle-prod of the twenty-first century, serving exactly the same function as…
Best of 2011
A little late for 2011 retrospectives, but, as I said, I was busy. First list: the most popular by hits. Second: my personal picks. 10 Most Popular Posts (many of…
shit new yorkers say
I love this town!
Whatever happened to Bruce Carson?
Nothing so far, by the look of it. Remember him? A disgraced Harper crony who was supposed to be undergoing an RCMP investigation? On his desk, Harper has had the…
Police brutality and Ontario’s civilian review
Adam Nobody has been vindicated—sort of. Ontario’s relatively new Office of the Independent Police Review Director has spoken. The OIPRD was established in 2009 to provide some relief to victimized…
Ban on Fast Food Ads Decreased Bad Eating Habits
Some say advertising doesn’t work, reality says advertising does work. The Province of Quebec banned fast food ads and research has come out proving that Quebec had a good idea:…
Griffintown Redevelopment Back on the Agenda: Public Consultation Tonight
Just before we were all interrupted in our getting and spending by the financial crisis of 2008, plans were rolling ahead to redevelop one of the oldest neighborhoods in Montreal,…
Has The Time Come For The Dean To Put PavCo On Double-Secret Probation?
BlindedByTheLight RevvedUpLikeDeuce(sGoneWild)Ville Frances Bula has published a piece in The Globe on those egregious high-wattage, mega-mansion-sized billboards from PavCo that are burning the retinas of downtown residents who live within…
I’ve been spending time on fetlife…
Difficult and challenging place filled with many, many oppressive people whose sexualities and desires are so reinforcing of dominant values and dynamics that I’ve found it difficult to breathe around…
Rob Ford Continues To Waste Your Money Hiding His Crime
http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1118538–mayor-rob-ford-s-lawyer-calls-audit-order-a-waste-of-money?bn=1 Rob Ford’s lawyer, in yet another desperate plea “to prevent an audit of his campaign expenses” … “told a judge the forensic audit would be “a waste of taxpayer’s…
Paul Wells On Northern Gateway
Sure, he’s recycling the work of bloggers without giving acknowledgement (mostly DC; maybe me a bit). Sure, some of it is unintentionally funny: a Conservative insider insisting that there is…
Saving Solar Power in Germany
German Solar Park. For most of the past winter, Germany’s 1.1 million solar power systems that crisscross the country have sat relatively idle. Overcast skies and a relative lack of…
Paying Attention 2: Muskrat Edition #nlpoli #cdnpoli
You learn a lot when you pay attention to what people say. Like natural resources minister Jerome Kennedy when he says that “it seems that they perhaps want to assume…
“Double Negative” SuperPAC Ad
From the definitely not co-ordinating with Stephen Colbert Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow SuperPAC, a negative ad attacking the negative ads of the Republican frontrunners… then vows donations will…