2012
happy (belated) birthday to me
A friend noted a certain absence on wmtc and wondered if perhaps I’m not thrilled about turning 51. I do usually announce my birthday here! I didn’t this year because…
140Law – Legal Headlines for Friday, June 15, 2012
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Friday, June 15, 2012: Top 50 Law Professors on Twitter Section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act…
Council of Canadians calls Conservative robocalls motion defamatory and abusive
Council of Canadians calls Conservative robocalls motion defamatory and abusive A “wanton and officious intermeddler.” Add this to “professional agitator” and “virulent critic.” Sounds like t-shirts, bumper stickers, and badges…
Reasonableness review
Halifax (Regional Municipality) v. Canada (Public Works and Government Services, 2012 SCC 29, released a few moments ago, has a good summary of the law regarding the standard of reasonableness review:…
Friday morning Robocon etc. blogging
About three weeks ago the Conservative Party presented a Federal Court with a 690 page affidavit designed to demonstrate that the Council of Canadians has been mean to Conservatives. And…
The Struggle Against Evil Continues . . .
Today the Lapdogs of the Corporatists, the human trash that are the Harpercons, passed the single worst piece of legislation this country has ever seen. It is a piece of…
Cheap and dirty
Yesterday, I columnized about what seemed to be fairly unobjectionable purposes of environmental assessments: The most recent spill into the Red Deer River paired a high-volume pipeline with a pristine…
Budget Bill C-38: Canadian MPs, Citizens, Tweet Their Frustrations
For an incredible 24 hours, Canadian opposition MPs held up the passage of Stephen Harper and the Conservative government’s draconian budget Bill C-38. They forced votes on more than 800…
Omnibus Bill C-38 gets rammed through..
..but not without a good fight. Bravo to all the opposition parties and Green Party leader Elizabeth May for making a good point about the ridiculousness of grouping everything from…
Obtuse cat
Filed under: art, digital, drawing Tagged: 100 cats
Happy Planet, Happy People: A Radical Idea Whose Time Has Come
How much happiness do we get for our planet plundering? Is it possible to rethink the status quo at this point in human history, especially considering the alternative? * The…
OCDSB Trustee
Pam FitzGerald is stepping aside Given the current composition of the Board, I worry a bit about who will be selected to replace her and the process that will be…
We Need To Reach Everyone Who Doesn’t Vote, Not Just The Young
It seems politicians focus more on young voters because they think there’s still a chance to reach them. Perhaps they think the rest of us are a lost cause. Or…
canadian citizen faces imminent execution in iran
In case you haven’t done so already, please read and sign this petition from Amnesty International, about Canadian Hamid Ghassemi-Shall. It’s a terrible story, and we may not be able…
A Bit Of Good News
The Literary Press Group of Canada has been given verbal notification that James Moore, the Minister of Canadian Heritage, has overturned the decision to end funding for its sales force,…
In which Jason Kenney is reminded that he was elected to govern and not to rule
Ottawa loses legal battle over immigration backlog About 900 applicants under the federal skilled workers’ program sued Immigration Minister Jason Kenney for violating the pledge to assess and finalize decisions…
Je Me Souviens
I remember. In Quebec, the phrase has always captured a sense of grievance, which goes back to the Plains of Abraham. But, stamped on the bottom of Quebec license plates,…
Resolute to Indefinitely Idle Mersey Mill in Nova Scotia
From resolute Forest Products: MONTREAL, June 15, 2012 /CNW Telbec/ – Resolute Forest Products (NYSE: RFP) (TSX: RFP) today announced that it will indefinitely idle the Mersey newsprint mill located…
Principled approach to hearsay and reliability
R v Gardipy, 2012 SKCA 58 is a recent Saskatchewan decision with a helpful summary of the reliability indicia for the principled approach to the hearsay rule: Sean’s statement clearly…