One of the official goals of central bank monetary policy is supposed to be low employment fostered through what is known as an expansionary policy by lowering interest rates with…
Last year telecom giant Bell unleashed a new $3.4B plan to take control of Astral Media, one of Canada’s largest media companies. Canada already has one of the most highly…
The first week in May is the week the leaves apppear almost without fail. It’s almost explosive, you can practically see them grow from hour to hour. Here are two…
While some choose to mock his entirely comfortable-looking summer wear because, well I have no idea why except maybe pettiness, the recent video put out by Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau…
As others have noted, last week’s Ontario budget combined modest social investments in areas requested by the NDP with austerity for overall expenditures. Ontario program spending, already the lowest per…
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – As would-be frackers show us exactly why it’s dangerous to give the corporate sector a veto over government action, Steven Shrybman suggests that…
* Ready or not, painful or not, we are in the middle of a huge shift from an oil dependent economy to one that is run on renewables, the Great…
Received an email this morning; Liberal leader Justin Trudeau “has a message for me.” And a few million other people, but whatevs. Here it is: Much discussion in the online…
1250264Ontario Inc. v. Pet Valu Canada Inc., 2013 ONCA 279 holds: Appellate intervention is warranted where an inference of fact is not supported by any evidence and where an improper…
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Monday, May 6, 2013: Katz v. McNevin – Non-Lawyer Representation in Family Matters Why the Billable Hour Endures…
At least half-a-dozen petitions aimed at stopping Stephen Harper from taking control of the CBC are buzzing around the Internet. Pressure groups are putting a lot of effort into this…
This is a kind of a guest post from my better half, adapted from a conversation we had earlier upon seeing the LPC message from Justin Trudeau in his khaki…
Dude, yellow shorts? Seriously? Sigh. If nothing else, I predict the 2015 election campaign will hang more on visuals more than any other in our nation’s proud history. (Oh, and…
If she supports the Liberal budget, she’s not going to have another chance to defeat the government before Christmas, I’d wager. If she supports the Liberal budget, the PC party…
Robert Greene’s new book has me somewhat flummoxed. It’s not at all like his previous books. The other books of his I have were all ‘meta’ books – books about…
Now that the weather has markedly and rather consistently improved over the past week in my part of Ontario, yard work beckons, so for now I offer this perceptive nugget…
Apparently, what I want, I can’t have. I would like to live in a democratic state where I could participate meaningfully in the political decisions to be made. Living in…
Conrad Black — that great defender of the Common Man — argued in Saturday’s National Post that public service unions are a public plague. He was defending the Harper government’s…
Today we’re packing and giving final instructions to our friend and dogsitter, the divine Essie Ash, and tonight we fly to London. In London, we’ll see R, who we know…
