Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Since the Cons don’t seem to have much else in their quiver at the moment, I’m sure they’ll keep trying to pretend that…
2012
On central questions
A few notes on the Calgary Centre by-election we’ll see in the relatively near future as a result of Lee Richardson’s departure from Ottawa… First, it would of course be…
Police Deserve Our Respect – When They Don’t Abuse It
Contrary to what one might believe reading my various entries on the police, I recognize the difficult job that they have, and I realize that they are often capable of…
June 1: Lots of ads….
…but really , really light on news today. Perhaps the story for the day is on section A, p.8. It’s a type of photo and story at which The Moncton…
Five decades of inanity and still going
In 1991, The Soviet Union disappeared. Washington changed its anti-Cuba rhetoric from Cold War to human rights. But one issue remains: a U.S. economic colony that broke loose in 1959…
A Really CRAPpy Agenda….
Brian Stewart: Why are we eliminating the CSIS watchers? By Brian Stewart, special to CBC News Posted: May 31, 2012 6:55 PM ET http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2012/05/31/f-vp-stewart-csis.html Following in the ‘footsteps’ of the…
fbi to operate within canada, cbsa using us-style tactics: the deep integration we should fear and protest
The CBSA harassing political journalists trying to enter Canada: bad. The FBI free to operate within Canadian borders: worse. Years ago when people stoked fears of co-called “deep integration” between…
Reply is confined to responding to an issue raised by the responding party on which the moving party has not taken a position
Dennis v. Ontario Lottery and Gaming Commission, 2012 ONCA 368 is a helpful case dealing with Reply in the context of a factum, but with broader implications. Despite the practice…
GDP: Austerity Bites
Canada’s economy grew by half a percent in the first quarter of 2012, staying on pace for unimpressive annual growth of two percent. The good news is that business investment…
Liberal leadership rumour mill
Right here on wk.com! Lotsa stories pinging around the MSM and blogosweird, in the past few weeks, here and here and here and here and here. Anyone got baseless speculation…
140Law – Legal Headlines for Friday, June 1, 2012
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Friday, June 1, 2012: Ontario Appeal Court rules custody battle a U.S. issue after mom’s California move when…
Dutch Disease, the Canada – US Exchange Rate and Trade With Asia
Today’s Globe editorial provides further evidence of distorted economic reasoning being rolled out to attack Thomas Mulcair. “Mr. Mulcair seems to long for a golden age of manufacturing and a…
The Sixties. The Beatles. Mad Men. Cnd Politics.
In the recent episode of the hit cult TV show "Mad Men", based in mid-sixties New York City advertising agency, the underbelly of a segregated, sexist society shone in sordidly…
Stand (Post-It)
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Rally to Protect our Democracy & Environment.
Readers of Democracy Under Fire are reminded that citizens across the country are gathering at Conservative MP offices this Saturday to show their opposition to the Omnibus Budget Bill which…
A Slegehammer To Swat A Fly
In this morning’s Globe and Mail, four former environment ministers –Tom Siddon, David Anderson, John Fraser and Herb Dahliwal — publish a letter which they have sent to Stephen Harper.…
Mulcair The "Statesman"
Mulcair’s rushed visit to the oilsands has served him well. While the polls remain firm- even downright extraordinary in a historic sense for the NDP- there is no doubt the…
Chesapeake Energy And Other Fracking Companies Squatting On New York Citizens’ Land
chesapeake-energy-logo.jpg New York landowners are having a hard time evicting an unwanted tenant, it seems. That's why over 200 people residing in the Marcellus Shale are suing energy companies such…
Why I’m Speaking Out In Defence Of Two Core Canadian Values, Nature & Democracy
On Monday, I will be joining the BlackOutSpeakOut campaign, and joining a committed group of organizations representing millions of Canadians who are darkening our websites in protest against the efforts…