Not So "Incompetent" After All, Eh Rupe?
Some pictures are worth a thousand words Now that recordings have emerged trashing Rupert Murdoch’s claims that he knew nothing of his newspapers’ phone hacking and police corruption, Ol’ Rupe…
July 2013
July 19: IRVING NAMED IN MEGANTIC LAWSUITS
That should have been the headline, page 1, in every paper of the Irving press today. Fifty people were killed. There is a link to Irving Oil, and to the…
Canadian Taxpayers Federation Want To Blow Up The Senate-Video
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes- Political Blogger The Canadian Taxpayers have embraced humour , satire and a little hucksterism to promote dismantling the Canadian Senate. Their goal is to have a referendum…
The Dismal Plight of Bradley Manning
The Guardian’s Steve Bell captures what America’s military justice system holds in store for Bradley Manning: In a preliminary ruling on the multiple charges Mr Manning faces, military judge Colonel…
6256…Next For Ottawa: Locusts
Yer capital is going thru a nasty heat wave. Today there is a tornado warning. One would presume that locusts are next. Personally I blame Mike Duffy. WFDS
Why Not Just Waterboard Them?
One of the dirty little tricks American interrogator/torturers adopted during the War on Terror has made it to the homeland. It is subjecting the prisoner to the prolonged stress of…
It Worked for Capone, Now Let’s Use It on Multi-Nationals
Tax evasion is a crime. Multi-national corporations are criminals. In fact, the G20 is warning that advanced countries are facing “global tax chaos” as multi-nationals evade taxes by laundering their…
Friday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to end your week. – Patrick Wintour and Simon Bowers discuss the G20’s predictable finding that our global tax system isn’t set up to address the problem of…
Conjunctive, disjunctive
Ekos here. I don’t really believe the fed Grits are pulling down the Ontario Libs, or vice-versa. There’s a bit of brand overlap, but not enough to effect big shifts.…
Complicity in international criminal law
Ezokola v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration) 2013 SCC 40 deals with complicity in a criminal organization for international criminal law purposes: In sum, while the various modes of commission recognized…
Shasta daisy
Stumbling through iPhoto I spotted this from a few weeks back. Better than I remembered it… Filed under: photo Tagged: daisy, flower, relief, wet
It is Friday!
To cheer my readers up here is a GIF displaying the beauty of nature.
Soon The Only Person Left In The PMO Will Be The Guy Who SHOULD Have Resigned In The First Place.
-Senior staffer who allegedly knew of Duffy payment leaves PMO (Chris Woodcock) -Nigel Wright, Stephen Harper’s chief of staff, resigns -Benjamin Perrin: ‘I was not consulted on, and did not…
Inflation Eats Up More Than Half of Wage Gains
Today, Statistics Canada reported an inflation rate of 1.2% for June, validating the Bank of Canada’s recent decision to keep interest rates low for the foreseeable future. The rationale to…
Making a list, checking it twice
Not surprisingly, the revelation that the Cons have assembled official enemies lists has given rise to some call for those lists to be made public. But I’ll take a quick…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Friday, July 19, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Friday, July 19, 2013: Texan Claims Bar Exam Is Unconstitutional — Which Kind Of Proves Why We Need…
Tim Speaketh Yet Again
I doubt that Ontario Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak has ever met a neoconservative nostrum that he doesn’t like. The latest pontification from the lad who would be Premier comes…
Political donations do ads for Whigs.
An e-mail came from the Ontario Liberal Party the other day. It was from Deb Matthews and Tim Murphy, campaign co-chairs for Wynne’s Whigs. This e-mail explained that since becoming…
The Longer He Stays, The More Damage He Does
Lawrence Martin has admitted that the title for his latest book was inspired by Rick Pearlstein’s examination of the Nixon administration. However, Martin writes, Harperland is not Nixonland — at…