140 Law – Legal Headlines for Thursday, June 27, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Thursday, June 27, 2013: Survival Tips for Google Reader’s July 1 Demise – my post today What do…
June 2013
And that must be the length of it.
When you are always intending to write something about blogs and finally get around to it, you wonder why. As a blogger, you should be able to say something positive…
Toronto needs a mayor: why I can’t support John Tory
The Toronto Star continues to giddily shred its credibility with its reliance on the same polling outfit that (a) declared a “crushing” Wildrose majority government in Alberta (b) a “comfortable”…
Goodbye Google Reader: Survival Tips for July 1 and Beyond
Today at SlawTips, I look at the world after Google Reader, which is to be closed down on July 1st, and offer a few promising alternatives for legal power-users who…
Yahoo News: Harper Reformatories make themselves the (bad) story
The other reason this story is important is because it shows how very afraid the Conservatives are of the new Liberal leader. Since Trudeau won the Liberal leadership in April,…
The Peripatetic Pamela
It would seem that the good Senator from somewhere, Pamela Wallin, is on the road so much that she has been denied health coverage in both Ontario and Saskatchewan, at…
The Future Is — Retail
Statscan reports that, when it comes to employment in Canada, the future is in retailing.We no longer make things. We sell things that other people make. According to The Toronto…
Harper Owes Us A Plan
From Simon Donner, of UBC:For about a decade, the explanation for a lack of coherent Canadian climate policy was the lack of a coherent American climate policy. How could our…
Water and beans #nlpoli
You don’t make the kind of telephone calls Cathy Bennett has been making if you aren’t already headed toward an announcement you will go after a political party leadership. What…
The Downfall of DOMA and the Triumph of Love
I've been studiously trying to ignore anything that happens in the United States these days.Because it's summer, the place is a mad house, and if I need crazy I've got…
API Spent $22 Million Lobbying for Keystone XL; State Dept Contractor ERM an API Member
In President Barack Obama’s Climate Action Plan address, he stated that TransCanada’s Keystone XL tar sands pipeline would only receive State Department approval “if this project does not significantly exacerbate…
John Tory will save us from ourselves
John Tory announced today that he is considering campaigning to be Mayor of Toronto in 2014. All I can say is, thank god. “I’m being asked to think about and…
Canadian children are born pre-polluted with toxic chemicals: Report
by: Environmental Defence | Press Release: TORONTO, June 26, 2013 – A new report with first of its kind data which demonstrates Canadian children are born pre-polluted was released today.…
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I get myself into the most interesting conversations. Usually that’s because I’ve figured out that one of the greatest secrets to an interesting and happy life is to surround yourself…
Lowkey ‘Obama Nation:part 3’: featuring Malcolm X footage, M1, Lupe Fiasco, 2Pac
This post follows up on earlier posts of Lowkey‘s Obama Nation… here is part 3. Obama Nation includes input from M1, 2Pac, Lupe Fiasco and others. Also includes footage from…
Bill C-304 Passes Third Reading
While it isn’t much of a surprise given the composition of the senate, Bill C-304 passed third reading and, as a result, Section 13 of the Human Rights Act dealing…
Ehud Olmert called ‘war criminal’ and ‘murderer’ during speech at Woodrow Wilson Center
Former Israeli PM, Ehud Olmert, who authorized operation Cast Lead against the people of Gaza, had his speech interrupted earlier this month at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington DC.…
BC Ferries Block 20 Year Old Woman From Ferry Over 10 Bloody Cents!
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Rules are rules is the official line from some demented BC Ferries spinner after a rules and regulations freak would not allow a young woman on the…