Pleadings to be read broadly on a motion to strike
Fox v PW Lorch & Associates Ltd, 2012 SKCA 93 is a useful source for the principle that, on motions to strike, pleadings must be read broadly: Because of the…
2012
Oil Poisons Everything – Defend Our Coast And Our Democracy
* Today there are community actions happening at MLA offices across BC. People are participating in the Defend Our Coast Campaign, and are showing up across the province to link…
Ask General Kang: How do I make myself look attractive on a dating site?
Your human mating rituals are really quite amusing. Dating sites are so passé on my homeworld of Neecknaw. Instead of dating sites, we have two bi-weekly “Gathering of the Gonads”…
Muskrat Falls – The Importance of Transparency #nlpoli
Nalcor will install new generating capacity at Portland Creek in the mid-2030s despite having about 1200 gigawatt hours of electricity available from Muskrat Falls. In his latest assessment – Muskrat…
Hollowing Out, Part 1: 30 of Canada’s Top 100 Companies in 1995 Have Since Been Taken Over by Multinational Corporations
In honour of the recent controversy over the proposed takeover of Nexen by the government of China (since only foreign governments are allowed to make money off of Canada’s oil…
The Haida’s Lousy Eco-Bet
Read between the lines in the financing agreement between the Haida and the North Coast Credit Union and it appears the Old Massett Village council’s $2.5-million gambit was a scheme…
Austerity only for the "plebs"
The most read article at Northern Insights is Adventures in not net zero land. It begins with this: “Helping manage the BC government’s war on school teachers and public education…
Idealism for Ideals
In the middle of the summer, I was asked by my friend Joseph Uranowski to write an article on whether or not Justin Trudeau should run for the Liberal leadership.…
Despite plans to reopen next week, ripples from XL Foods closing may spread
Everything from ranches to feedlots to auction operations not quite like this one could be affected by a financial disaster at Nilsson Brothers Inc., the owner of XL Foods in…
Great line of the day
From Nancy Nall: Maybe Dave Barry is right — as we get older, our brains fill up with song lyrics and there’s no room for anything else. These fans better…
Dwight
CP, CBC and others are reporting similar stuff. So, if it’s true that Dwight is leaving, it is another very sad development for Ontario Liberals. Dwight Duncan is a giant…
Suzuki: Short-Term Thinking On Display in Canada-China Deal and Budget
By David Suzuki Why, when so many people oppose the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline project, would government and industry resort to such extreme measures to push it through? The problems…
Worth Sharing: A Special Olympian Calls Out Ann Coulter’s Choice of Insults
Via the Special Olympics blog: Come on Ms. Coulter, you aren’t dumb and you aren’t shallow. So why are you continually using a word like the R-word as an insult?…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Basket case cats.
“You’re a priggish, gullible, British Fool”: Conrad Black
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Oh, this is special. Jailbird Conrad Black strikes out against BBC Interviewer. The National Post and of course PM Harper are falling all over themselves to cater…
Camila Vallejo and Noam Titelman: Chilean student leaders receive award in the U.S.
Top: Camila Vallejo and Noam Titelman – also bottom left and right. Like their counterparts in Chile and Quebec, students on US campuses have been seeking to organize to combat…
Mulcair Speaks Out About the Canada – China Foreign Investment Agreement (FIPA).
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger The Steve Harper Wrecking Crew, aka Our Canadian Government, are in high gear selling out the rights of Canadians, our democratic practices and our soverignty. Federal NDP…
To Mini or Not to Mini, that is the iPad Question
I ordered the iPod touch the day Steve Jobs announced it September 2007. I payed $329 and it was worth every penny. 5 years later and you can buy the…
Campaign Update: Cam Broten
Planet S Magazine: LINK Cam Campaign Video: LINK Building on his release last week about strengthening our democracy, Cam’s campaign has been quick with sending out links bemoaning the status…