McCreight v. Canada (Attorney General), 2013 ONCA 483 deals with the principle that, on a motion to strike for no cause of action, documents expressly referred to in the claim…
I met Alex Colville in his studio in Nova Scotia over thirty years ago. The precision and detail of his work was (and is) astonishing; certainly he created an instantly…
When Michelin let him go, Bibendum thought he would be fine. That lazy brother of his, Bonhomme, had been pestering him to take over his duties at the Quebec Winter…
While dirty energy continues to rake in record profits, the rest of us are going to be paying a higher and higher price for our governments’ inaction on climate change.…
Zacharias v. Zurich Insurance Company, 2013 ONCA 482 is an insurance case with implications beyond the insurance field. The court considers whether under specific legislation interest payable is simple or…
He made these things up in his head. Then he repeated them to himself in a loud voice, and became somehow persuaded that they had been told to him by…
The Liberal leadership is not even a couple of weeks old and already reporters are getting inundated with the suggestions from anonymous turd-mongers wondering why they are not covering this…
Are the Cons committing accounting fraud with the budget so that they can surprise us with a surplus in 2015?
Reading this made me sick: Hungry Canadian aboriginal children were used in government experiments during 1940s, researcher says: The first experiment began in 1942 on 300 Norway House Cree. Of…
I'll never understand why it took so long for so many Canadians to understand the true nature of Stephen Harper.Or the horror of his twisted mind.And to what nightmare place…
Gertie Cleary compared the experience to a child with a splinter. “hen you pull a splinter out, they holler and screech and pull their hand away,” she told CTV News.…
Premier Photo Op’s deputy chief of staff resigned over her role in the Liberals’ ethnic outreach artifice. The Liberals and their faithful media partners emphasized that Kim Haakstad took no…
Fort McMurray-Wood Buffalo MLA Mike Allen and Alberta Premier Alison Redford in happier times (Edmonton Sun Photo). Below: Mr. Allen’s Minnesota police mug shot; the former Wildrose MLA for the…
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Yes, it is still the ‘Dog days of Summer’ and Cowichan MLA Bill Routley is up on his feet again. This time he is questioning Minister of…
In the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide, as the world collectively tried to parse the abhorrent barbarism and purposelessness that had occurred, a new foreign policy doctrine was proposed: liberal…
Landed on a dock chair as Son Two and Son Three and me were trying to figure out how to get cool (there ain’t no AC at the cabin). Amazing,…
Richard Hub Hughes-Political Blogger During these ‘Dog Days of Summer’ political life at the BC Legislature continues. Below find a series of questions from Hansard where Cowichan MLA Bill Routley…
The acquittal of George Zimmerman on charges of murdering Trayvon Martin may have met the requirements of law in the eyes of some Americans, but was nonetheless a travesty of…
