How You Can Help Stop Ratification of Canada-China FIPA
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes – Political Blogger The Common Sense Canadian Website has led the way shining a light on the Canada-China Trade Investment Deal. It stinks to high heaven.…
2012
5298…Rob Ford Ain’t Such A Bad Mayor After All
When you compare him to the mayor types of the two metros that bookend the 401, Detroit and Montreal, he looks good.Sure he commandeered a city bus for his football…
5297…Bad News For Barack Obama
Michael Ignatief is pimping him in today's Globe and Mail.WFDS
When billionaires brawl… (some US election thoughts)
So, the US elects its next President (or re-elects its current one) today. One hopes that our southern cousins avoid the fiascos of 2000 and 2004. As all but the…
Unjust enrichment rare in cases with equalization
Symmons v. Symmons, 2012 ONCA 747 has a useful passage on unjust enrichment in equalization cases: The trial judge's finding that there was no unjust enrichment is reasonable. We are…
The Paradox of Democracy
During my days as a student activist studying philosophy in Alberta one wag described me as "a moderate socialist and a radical democrat."That description is probably still apt 20 years…
‘Invisible Parents’
Director Mike Buonaiuto has followed up his short film adressing gay marriage in the U.K. with Invisible Parents. This new film was produced as part of queer advocacy group AllOut's…
The Two Faces of Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney is champion of etch and sketch.
Do as I say, not as I did
So says former Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff.
140Law – Legal Headlines for Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Tuesday, November 6, 2012: US: Election Lawyers Are Ready to Pounce US Election: The Judicial Races You Need…
US Prediction 2012
While I haven't talked much about the Presidential and congressional elections currently on-going south of the border, I have been following them very closely. All three races, in fact, not…
CVRD Spending Is Out Of Control!
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes – Political Blogger The CVRD spending has shown what happens when happens when our elected officials are allowed to freely spend our tax dollars without meaningful restraint…
Tax cheaters: Give us back our money
There is a class of people and corporations in this country whose illicit financial practices have an enormous negative impact on the country and its citizens. Yet the law and…
Rob Ford Isnt The Mayor, He’s A Reality TV Show
Cue circus music: “It’s the Rob Ford Show” OK, OK, I get the joke now. For most of the last two years I’ve watched in horror as our metropolis was…
The only opinion column that ever impacted an election result
As I have written many times, opinion columns don’t matter squat. They actually often send voters in the opposite direction from what was intended. As I plan to discuss on…
Nov. 6: How to say nothing….
It's another slim day in the Moncton Times and Transcript. I got a sense of that even before I saw the paper. As I drove my children to school, I…
It’s another Festivus miracle!
Barak Obama got Bruce Springsteen to talk to Chris Christie.