Here’s a given – as Ontario hospitals start to shed services and staff in the next three years, the government is inevitably going to proclaim the benefits of serving patients…
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Monday, July 16, 2012: Law Commission of Ontario releases Final Report and Framework for the Law as it…
Why is the open Internet so important worldwide? Researchers from the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab have shown that censorship has no borders—if one country blocks content, then that block…
The rhetoric about overpaid doctors notwithstanding, I suspect the public loves it as much as I do when the medical profession defends its principles and embarrasses Tory lap dogs in…
The Globe and Mail reports this morning that Finance Minister Jim Flaherty’s proposal to overhaul Canada’s banking dispute settlement system “looks suspiciously like a gift to the country’s big banks.”…
Revolutionary thought of the day: Pick up Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front or James Jones’s From Here to Eternity. Read Henry IV. Turn to the Iliad.…
Cheers for Bashir Mohamed! He interrupted a speech by Jason Kenney, trying to ask questions about refugee health care, was removed and arrested, and now he’s challenging the illustrious Minister…
Khan Resources Inc. v. Atomredmetzoloto JSC, 2012 ONSC 1522 deals with the interesting legal issue of whether, when dealing with a Contracting State under the Convention on the Service Abroad…
The Flying Dutchman of Toronto Politics has made his choice: his choice is accordingly doomed. Listen to Lasch. But Globians, by all means put it on the front page.
Jason Kenney? Peter McKay? It is to laugh. When Harper departs, they’re pooched.
This is one of the first sensible questions people have asked me on this column. Most of your questions are about petty human concerns such as getting a mate, and…
Three Ontario Superior Court of Justice cases reported over the past two years, confirm what I had suspected as a consequence of practicing family law for close to 20 years:…
A new OECD report says lower tuition isn`t the solution to give more people access to university. In Quebec even when we had the lowest tuition in the country we…
Behold the Christian Paradis legacy to Public Works from his time as minister: Public Works said Saturday that action had been taken to address situations where the minister wants civil…
Don’t let the door hit you on your way out, etc.
With this last Sunday number of the Ottawa Citizen, I am taking my leave. The editors of the paper have been good to me over the years, and have stood…
Where the government releases its approval of a $6.1 billion acquisition of a Canadian company: “Minister Paradis Approves Glencore International plc’s Acquisition of Viterra Inc.” A little strange to see…
Slap reader Tim writes in with this bit of news from Down Under: Currently in Queensland Australia there exists a legal defence which allows a reduced sentence on murder of…
One reported tweeted his impression of the attitude toward Muskrat Falls that seems to come from the provincial governments in Newfoundland and Labrador and Nova Scotia. While the content was…
