A Pennsylvania industrial wastewater treatment plant has been illegally accepting oil and gas wastewater and polluting the Allegheny river with radioactive waste and other pollutants, according to an environmental group…
Wow being a disgraced pol really pays off. Take the case of Montreal’s ex mayor Michael Applebaum. You may recall that Mr. Applebaum was interim mayor of Canada’s coolest city…
I believe the Boston bomber’s photo on the cover of Rolling Stone Magazine was egregious. This kind of notoriety gives other young people incentive to undertake similar actions. It does…
Statistics Canada reported today that 12,290 fewer Canadians received Employment Insurance (EI) benefits in May compared to April. EI benefits are shrinking far faster than unemployment. In percentage terms, the…
Will this happen? Canadians will hope soon.
There is no stopping the pipeline people from Enbridge. The Enbridge motto should be “What TransCanada can’t do, Enbridge can do!” With President Obama making the noises that he will…
Nunavut (Minister of the Environment) v. WSCC, 2013 NUCJ 11 has a useful analysis of when a statute is to be given special consideration as being of quasi-consititutional status: A.…
I’m one of those people that can’t handle unrelenting heat and so I’m always looking for ways to stay cool. I’m also one of those people who doesn’t like air…
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Plenty more commentators are weighing in on the Harper Cons’ enemy list, including the Star, the Globe and Mail, and Lawrence Martin.…
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Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Thursday, July 18, 2013: Failure to ask employee about questionable expenses prior to termination means no just cause…
– National Post: Andrew Coyne “You will be shocked to see who is on Stephen Harper’s Enemy List-CTV News: PMO withholding email about Wright/Duffy deal from RCMP: sources -The Windsor…
When the news of intentional malnutrition of aboriginal children in 1940s Canada came out, a Crown Attorney I was sitting with said “that’s just like Nazi Germany”. My instinct was…
Everyone complains about public apathy. We know that democracy in Canada is in trouble. But nothing seems to change. Alex Himelfarb suggests that the reason things don’t change is because…
A DeSmogBlog investigation reveals Environmental Resources Management, Inc. (ERM Group), the contractor that performed the environmental review for TransCanada’s Keystone XL tar sands export pipeline, was also recently hired by…
Yesterday I wrote a post detailing a CTV report on the obstruction from the PMO over its refusal to hand over an email pertaining to the the Wright-Duffy Senate payoff…
I am 20,000 days old today! (And I’m very pleased that I get to share my birthday with Patti O’Stone this year.) Gc is making me raspberry jello with whipped…
The party got out of hand roughly the same time Professor Lunchbender decided to create the “ultimate” knob robot. Of course, you had to admire any affaire that required the…
