The following article was published on The Tyee on May 13, 2013 and is well worth reading: The Globe and Mail published an editorial on Friday evening endorsing Christy Clark…
Royal Bank of Canada v. Samson Management & Solutions Ltd., 2013 ONCA 313 makes clear that common law guarantee defences can be ousted by sufficiently clear bank language: Parties are…
This year Ontario is adding $1.3 billion to fund health care for 2013-14, but most of that increase will have come from dedicated sources amounting to almost a billion dollars.…
Independent biologist Alexandra Morton has been busy during the BC election campaign, traveling the province to raise the issue of protecting wild salmon from fish farms and viruses. Here, as…
The right care at the right place at the right time. It’s a reasonable goal for the health system, but frequently Ontarians are faced with difficult decisions because they can…
There’s nothing Steve Harper likes better than to bask in the glory of a celebrity. He gets his nose so far up their bums that sometimes you wonder how they’ll…
The Guardian news outlet is running a series this week on the small Alaskan town of Newtok that is slowly being wiped off the map as the waters rise around…
National business journalists and columnists have bought into Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s demeaning view that folks in the Atlantic region are backward and have a defeatist attitude. Framed in disrespectful…
The more I think about the plan to charge high fees to visit Montreal’s Jardin botanique, the more annoyed I get. When we first came here eons ago, it was…
The LPCBC team was at the Vancouver Vaisakhi Parade in Vancouver South!
I knew that little headline would get your attention! And it’s true. Being the guy (currently) most likely to become Premier if (theoretically) there is an election, Hudak could have…
“It doesn’t take a weather vane to see which way the wind is blowing.”
I originally did this article in May 2013. I may update it at a later date. The province of Ontario (previously Canada West, and before that Upper Canada) held its…
Telus are refusing to comment on reports that it is in talks to acquire independent provider Mobilicity. This would mean that the already dismal state of competition in our cell…
Note to Peter Penashue: In retrospect dya think that resigning was a good idea? Something to think about when the results start pouring in and you get crushed by Yvonne…
Important question…but, first, lets look at a story the editorial elves at the Moncton TandT didn’t notice. An American government air-testing station, one that sets the standard for the world,…
As if to remind the world that we’re not all Stephen Harper shaming us all singing John Lennon’s Imagine without our PM getting it that he is the anti-Lennon. Hadfield…
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Monday, May 13, 2013: “Copyright troll Righthaven finally, completely dead” RCMP confirms it’s looking into Senate expense claims…
This is a man who made lemons out of lemonade. When the broadsheet The Toronto Telegram bit the dust in 1970 Peter Worthington helped found The Toronto Sun which quickly…
