140 Law – Legal Headlines for Tuesday, September 10, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Tuesday, September 10, 2013: Apple poised for major announcement Tuesday on bold new initiative to build NSA’s international…
September 2013
Will the Collapse of the Middle Class Bring About Democracy in America?
As the twenty-aughts gave way to the twenty-teens, it became readily apparent that the recovery from the Great Recession was not working its way throughout the entire population. As was…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Tavia Grant reports on the most recent world happiness report from the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. And David Doorey points out…
An Indoor Year-Round Rec Facility for Seniors and More
Monday night, I asked for a staff report on covering our lawn bowling rinks, and making it into a year-round facility for Collingwood. This facility would provide recreational opportunities for…
Dealing in Doubt: Greenpeace Report Exposes Fossil Fuel Funded Climate Denial Machine
As the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change prepares to release its Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) — the latest installment of its comprehensive assessment of climate science — early next year,…
Sept. 10: And the big story of the day is…
…headline, page 1…Riverview man is new, national president of Ducks Unlimited. Wow! Get your paper fast before this one sells out. Now, I certainly don’t intend to suggest that the…
Young Tim’s ‘Transparency’
In a political landscape littered at all levels with lies, deception and expedience, it is hardly surprising that young Tim Hudak, the beleaguered ‘leader’ of Ontario’s Progressive Conservative Party, has…
"The Senate is a failed institution.” – Tom Mulcair, Leader, New Democratic Party
“We live in a democracy. It’s a fundamental principle in a democracy that laws are made by people who have been elected by the public. The Senate is a failed…
How many humans ever lived?
This infographic supplies an estimate for how many human beings ever lived. (140 billion) And if that sounds like an astonishing number, imagine how crowded the planet would be if…
#autism gene AUTS2 tied to dyslexia ADHD epilepsy ID motor delay microcephaly MORE SYMPTOMS should be part of ASD DX
“Dr. Lynn Waterhouse @autismideasfail 6 Sep http://bit.ly/17WbZVi #autism gene AUTS2 tied to dyslexia ADHD epilepsy ID motor delay microcephaly MORE SYMPTOMS should be part of ASD DX” The above Tweet…
A weapon to change the world
“Those who educate children well are more to be honoured than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.” ― Aristotle This…
Nano UAVs #nlpoli
Let’s take a break from politics and have a look at the amazing way that technology has developed in the past decade. All those small radio controlled helicopters you see…
In the dining room, an OOPs moment
Link to copy of original job offer
Content with content?
Once upon a time, there was a young man who loved ponies. Nobody thought this was odd because there wasn’t a gender-specific expectation related to the love of diminutive equines.…
BC Fed and Christy Clark Join In an Unholy But Sadly Predictable Alliance!
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes-Political Blogger Well the cat has been set out with the canaries now. We are going to get a real good look at who stands where in this…
Kerry accidently talks the U.S. out of war
It’s tough being aggressively diplomatic. The propaganda spectre required to convince people that war is necessary for peace definitely isn’t easy to pull off. It took the shock and awe…
Mining the Family Farm
Monday, September 9, 2013 BC’s archaic mining laws have a real cost for BC communities, their environment and their economies. This blog post is the first in a series that…
Contract interpretation
Northwest Plaza Ltd. v. Zellers Inc. and Target Canada Co., 2013 NBCA 54: According to classical contract theory, the interpretive issue involves a search for the intention of the parties…
In Tuesday’s Sun: war’s casualties
Saying that truth is a casualty of war isn’t new. It’s the world’s oldest declaration, you might say. Syria is no different. Monday, Syrian despot Bashar al-Assad gave an interview…
Feds Spend Tax Money to Justify Northern Gateway Pipeline Project
The following text has been modified slightly from text which was recently submitted as a letter to the Editor of a local newspaper with general circulation in Greater Sudbury. At…