Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Tim Harper reminds us why Brad Wall is thoroughly off base in claiming that it’s the duty of every Canadian politician to demonstrate…
March 2013
Marc Garneau Quits and Backs Justin Trudeau
“Marc Garneau confirmed he’s dropping out of the federal Liberal leadership race at a press conference in Ottawa. Garneau said he spoke with Bob Rae and Justin Trudeau Tuesday night…
A conscious decision not to participate in the proceedings bars consideration of a defence for the merits
Sunlife Assurance Company of Canada v. Premier Financial Group Incorporated (Premier Financial), 2013 ONCA 151 is a good source for the principle that someone who chooses to ignore a claim…
Premier’s Calculations for Pipelines, Fish Farms, Site C Dam Don’t Add Up
Rafe questions BC Premier Christy Clark and her party’s economic basis for supporting projects like a new pipeline and refinery proposal for Kitimat, open net pen salmon farms and Site…
Preston Manning Tells Conservatives That They MUST NOT Say What They Believe If They Want Canadians To Vote For Them!
Chris Selley considers the portion of Preston Manning’s speech this past weekend that dealt with “intemperate and ill considered remarks” by fellow conservatives. He mentioned (though not by name) Wildrose…
How New ACTA Internet Lockdown Measures Are Coming to Canada
The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), once believed dead, is back from beyond the grave, and could criminalize and otherwise restrict your use of the Internet by overwriting our copyright rules.…
March 13: The reason why…
It was never clear why the US launched a war on Afghanistan. After 911, the Taliban offered to surrender Osama bin Laken to an international court. That fully met its…
the complicated problem of sweatshops
Have you ever heard of the island of Saipan? It is an American territory in the pacific, which as a Canadian I had never heard of it until an email…
the complicated problem of sweatshops
Have you ever heard of the island of Saipan? It is an American territory in the pacific, where I had never heard of it until an email arrived from Walt…
Brad Lavigne and Jean Chretien: the dramatic encounter
Lavigne: Did you get a chance to watch the ‘Jack’ movie on Sunday night?” Chrétien: No,
Garneau goodbye?
Very sorry to hear he’s packing it in.
Could the Wynne government do a u-turn on austerity?
It didn’t get much coverage in the mainstream media, but last week the big banks told Federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty to take his foot off the brake when it…
Juxtaposition
Bert Brown today, trying to justify the public footing a nine-figure annual bill for a cesspool of patronage and corruption: “It’s one of the five major institutions of the Canadian…
Garneau Out?
!!! RT @jmbryden: Garmeau withdrawing from #lpldr race, The Canadian Press has learned— Dale Smith-Journo (@journo_dale) March 13, 2013 If so, where do his people go? Anywhere but Justin?
The Ongoing Net Debt Fallacy #nlpoli
In a post that starts out about Muskrat Falls, the Telegram’s James McLeod does a fine job of laying out some basic information about debt, deficit, current account, capital account…
140Law – Legal Headlines for Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Wednesday, March 13, 2013: Employees Dismissed During A Probationary Period May Still Be Entitled To Notice Of Termination…
Sleeping black cat
Filed under: art Tagged: black, Cat, sleeping
Private sector settlements 2.1% more than public sector
The Ontario government’s report on collective bargaining agreements came out yesterday for the month of January. Naturally it included the “agreements” for school board employees. It also included settlements in…
The Manning Doctrine: I Won’t Let My People Go
By now, those who follow such things will be aware that the Manning Networking Conference was held last weekend in Ottawa, during which the main message seemed to have been,…
Getting Tired And Tiresome
Lawrence Martin wrote in yesterday’s Globe and Mail that those who predicted Justin Trudeau would be this decade’s Kim Campbell may yet live to eat crow: When the poll numbers…