Weeping in Public Places
Forgive me, I have been crying. Today I wept while driving, when I saw an old couple hug on the sidewalk. I wiped my cheeks as I watched the post…
June 2013
ConCalls: Working Closely With Election Fraud #cdnpoli
Two more Conservative MPs need to be removed from the House for election overspending. That’s what Elections Canada has said, but the Speaker of the House disagrees. In an application…
Plant a Tree for $25 Until June 15
Trees are great. Not only do they provide a feast for the eye and shade for the body, they absorb carbon dioxide. You might say they are nature’s CO2 sequestering…
Page with ‘Stop Harper’ sign fired from Senate Two Years Ago …. (Canada should have listened!)
Two years ago, June 3, 2011, a Senate page was fired for holding a “Stop Harper” sign during the government’s throne speech. Too bad more Canadians did not heed her…
Compare And Contrast…
…the three party’s on the painfully stupid and obviously racist decision by the Quebec Soccer Federation to disallow the wearing of Sikh Turbans for religious reasons. From the CPC: I…
I guess the Harper Cons just cannot be trusted with money
What’s the deal with the Harper Cons these days and their attitude toward Canadian law? Not to mention how incompetent are they at handling money.The two Con MPs are describing…
A Word From The Mound Of Sound
The Mound of Sound (a.k.a. The Disaffected Lib) is back from his hiatus, and he left a comment on my earlier post suggesting how newspapers should deal with weather-related disasters.…
Marilyn Monroe Reading Ulysses
A great picture. And she appears to be reading the last page which is, quite awesome!
Walking Turcot Yards 2013-06-04 16:04:35
Gone but not fogotten. He was Montreal’s Emperor Norton.
The Art & Money Project
It’s no secret that money rules our lives. I think what we’re now seeing is really the final and most ruthless stage of the integration of art and creativity into…
Where offence named and statutory section listed conflict should a certificate of offence be quashed on ex parte trial? Leave granted by OCA
R. v. Farah, 2013 ONCA 362 dealt with a situation where a provincial offences certificate of offence named one offence but referred to a statutory provision for another offence. The…
6098…Guns For The People
I kid you not 24 years ago today I changed my stance on gun control. This is why. Balance. WFDS
6097…10 Cent Beer Night
Limit six per purchase. Whatever could go wrong? Everything as it turned out on this night back in ’74. Cleveland Stadium the place for the Indians versus the Texas Rangers.…
ConCalls: Yep, Still Defrauded #RoboCon
*Canada: 0 Days Without Election Fraud* You can start at the beginning in great detail… Or you can jump to the end of the beginning. You can draw conclusions so…
Turkish Spring: Another take on events of May 31
Claire Belinski Claire Berlinski, writing in the City Journal in the wee hours of the morning of May 31, captured her thoughts about the beginnings of the Turkish unrest: But…
Under what circumstances should an action be dismissed by the court following a status hearing?
Faris v. Eftimovski, 2013 ONCA 360 holds that on a status hearing rule 48.14(13) says that the onus is on the plaintiff to demonstrate why the action should not be…
Off track betting #nlpoli
That big, ginormous phone-banging-up, trade dispute thingy with evil Ottawa? So not happening any more. "We seem to be back on track. We have alignment," Premier Kathy Dunderdale told reporters…
Update from Steve: Notes from my meeting with Paradis
The call was brief, about 15 minutes, and I didn’t get clear answers to many of the questions posed, but here are my notes from the meeting. Paradis started by…
Conservative MP Devinder Shory And 16 Other Lawyers Bailed Out By Alta Lawyers Insurance Assc. in Alleged Fraud Case With BMO
Corruption in Canada ‘s Conservative government is being disclosed so fast and furious at the moment, that some of the smaller cases are being overshadowed by the larger Senate scandal.…