Fotherby v. Cowan, 2012 NSCA 77 provides a useful review of the principles related to security for costs on appeal. While arising in Nova Scotia the principles are relevant across…
Activists angered over funding cuts and regressive government policy protest the Canada exhibit booth To launch off the AIDS 2012 XIX International AIDS Conference Washington D.C., Canadian and international activists…
There’s been plenty of coverage from last night’s Regina City Council meeting, with more surely to come. But aside from the complete refusal of any current Council member to respond…
It’s brief and it speaks for itself – powerfully.
I just love it when people like PMS and Robert Ford say that getting tough on the causes of crime is tantamount to “coddling thugs.” I’ll be brief on this…
Via labradore, a chart that plots Conservative unsustainable public spending since 2003 with recently announced controls on discretionary spending. -srbp-
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Tuesday, July 24, 2012: Toronto Law Blogger Meetup – Tomorrow night – Wednesday July 25 at 7 p.m.…
Sometimes it feels like the forces working against a sustainable future for humanity – vested interests like Big Oil, Coal, & Gas, and the politicians they’ve bought, as well as…
Len Berman sums it up nicely on Facebook: The Paterno family says the NCAA’s punitive actions “defame” Joe Paterno’s legacy. Ah, now I’ve got it. Failing to protect kids wasn’t…
Today’s Revolutionary Thought of the Day is dedicated to every survivor of sexual abuse or sexual assault who suffers in silence. Here is the thought. Tell someone. It may be…
Give or take. Your armed forces are looking for a manager for the coffee services at the Saint Jean Garrison in La Belle. The Ottawa Citizen reports that the job…
I just love when I receive messages from strangers who share my interest in exploring ideas about caregiving. Last evening, the little red number ‘1’ appeared above the message symbol…
This is an encouraging sign coming from the USA. Unbelief is on the uptick. People who check “None” for their religious affiliation are now nearly one in five Americans (19%),…
Check out my presentation here, or on Access 7 replay later on. CTV, Global, and LP mentioned me, but the CBC reporter they sent wasn’t interested in a quote even…
Thomas Homer Dixon writes this morning that the hot weather we have endured over the last decade has taught us something about crop yields: In the past few years, agricultural…
I hope that I can be forgiven for what might appear to some as either an unhealthy obsession with Toronto’s chief magistrate or an Ontario-centric regional preoccupation. It’s just that…
I spent some time last night reading reaction to the sanctions against Penn State University set out by the NCAA. (I should qualify that: I was reading the reactions of…
Medicare for Autism Now! is featuring a series of interviews in connection with the Medicare’s Orphans series. Interview 3 features Dr. Melvin DeLevie a practicing British Columbia physician with extensive…
When I’m not posting nonsense here, and writing novels that you can (ahem), buy here, I teach at the Faculty of Information and Media Studies, at Western. A lot of…
