Substantial success and costs on civil appeals
Doucette v. McInnes, 2012 BCCA 235 deals with the issue of substantial success and costs in the Court of Appeal. While arising in British Columbia and so governed by that…
2012
Sunday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your Sunday reading. – It’s undoubtedly an embarrassment for John Baird to have leapt at a thoroughly implausible bit of anti-UN spin. But I’d think there’s more…
Is the Earth Really Flat??
I woke up this morning when the rest of the house was asleep and went into my studio to work on my latest shadow box. I turned on my TV…
Pushing students through high school
Alberta teacher kicked out of class for giving students zeros Edmonton apparently has a no-zero policy. Parts of the intention of the policy sound good, like trying to get teachers…
german police recognize that they are part of the 99%, take off helmets, escort protesters
This is one of the most beautiful things I’ve seen in a very long time. The German police took off their helmets and marched with the protest clearing the way…
Election Canada to Review Processes.
It was recently reported that Chief Electoral Officer Marc Mayrand appeared before the Procedure and House affairs committee and responded to questions regarding both “the voter registration and voting processes…
mongolian
Filed under: Political Humour
hochelaga
Filed under: Political Humour
clark_christy_jerk
Filed under: Political Humour
Protesting The Harper Omnibus Budget Bill
I wrote a post the other day about a Leadnow.ca campaign promoting nation-wide demonstrations at the constituency offices of Conservative M.P.s to protest Bill C-38, the Harper government’s omnibus budget…
christy_clark_totem
Filed under: Political Humour
christy_clark_how
Filed under: Political Humour
Youth Unemployment
Here’s the link to a TVO The Agenda panel I was on this Friday. Good to put some focus on the fact that the “real” unemployment rate for young people…
Austerity For Thee, But Not For Me
On Friday, Gerald Caplan reminded Globe and Mail readers of the deeply rooted hypocrisy at the core of the Harper government. — hypocrisy which has been on display since newly…
Crush Motion 312 – Abortion in Canada
A year ago I would have been less than useless in a discussion about why there is no abortion law in Canada, why it’s simply a medical procedure, why we…
Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
Live life fully while you’re here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You’re going to anyway,…
Fool Me Once, Shame On You; Fool Me Twice, And I Must be Lorne Gunter
The latest tranche of census information, like the material released back in February, is from the still mandatory short form. It is the long form that was compromised by the…