An October Update from Brian’s Campaign
Have you been wondering what’s happening on Brian G. Rice’s campaign lately? I thought I’d share this update with you – please feel free to share it with your friends!…
October 2013
Daily Digital Digest for Tuesday October 1, 2013
Here are your daily news links: I’ll be doing a long-planned “Ask Me Anything” on Reddit today at 1 pm ET (@ggreenwald) Income levels and the high price of telecom…
Hedges’ Quest to Find the Triggers of Revolt
It should come as no surprise that Chris Hedges openly and strongly advocates for outright revolt. He believes that laissez-faire capitalism has run its course, leaving blue and white collar…
Obey law, minister tells New Brunswick fracking protesters
Fracking protest in New Brunswick (photo: Colin McPhail) HALIFAX – New Brunswick’s minister of energy is urging people participating in a demonstration against exploration for shale gas fracking to obey…
Harper’s empty boast on job creation
Harper brags his government created 750,000 jobs. But an analysis from the Globe and Mail’s Economy Lab shows this focus on total employment is misplaced. Employment rate Most of the…
Oct. 1: What the…..?
The American government has shut down for lack of money – with implications we can only guess at.. Canada’s John Baird gives very strange speech at the UN. An expensive…
The Teaparty Shutdown Of Government Isn’t ‘Crazy’ … It Is An Intentional And Strategic Crippling Of ‘Government’
“If you don’t want your tax dollars to help the poor, stop saying you want a country based on Christian values. You don’t!” President Jimmy Carter The following article is…
Status update
Leaving Newark airport by train to NYC. We have not lost a kid yet. But the day is still young.
A failure to immediately and unequivocally deny a vague allegation does not entitle a judge to discount evidence
R. v. J.S.W., 2013 ONCA 593 deals with silence or a failure categorically to deny an allegation – can that be taken as either agreement or at least a weakness…
Some Hon. members: Oh, oh!
Another Harper loyalist is in trouble for claiming expenses she wasn’t entitled to. Is there anyone in there who isn’t?? Also, no one believes it was a mistake, either.
Explaining Canadian liberalism
It is the risk of appearing academic or pedantic (book-smart) that usually precludes any discussion of what liberalism is all about. It reminds us of an old friend—a law professor…
Mission accomplished (iii): Collateral damage
I’m prepared to believe that when Tony Clement eliminated the manadatory long census form prior to the 2011 census, he didn’t actually intend to make rural communities in the western…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Tuesday, October 1, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Tuesday, October 1, 2013: Maple Lodge Farms guilty of criminal charges after hens freeze to death Tax evasion…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Jordon Cooper writes about the need to understand poverty in order to discuss and address it as a matter of public policy.…
Ralph Miliband: democrat and anti-fascist
Reblogged from Poumista: The Daily Mail has been in the news for its attacks on Ralph Miliband as “the man who hated Britain“. This continues a long tradition of smearing…
Still waiting for “earliest possible opportunity” to regulate patient transfer
“This is a case where the wheels are literally falling off the bus.” – Andre Marin, Toronto Star, July 16, 2013 Back in June 2011 the Ontario government promised legislation…
Norway’s disturbing lurch to the right | Alf Gunvald Nilsen | Comment is free | theguardian.com
Norway’s disturbing lurch to the right | Alf Gunvald Nilsen | Comment is free | theguardian.com. The results from today’s Norwegian elections are more or less clear: with some 26.8%…
The Crazies Rule The Roost
It has been clear for some time now that the Republican Party is The Stupid Party. But with today’s shut down of the federal government, the Republicans have earned the…
The (sometimes violent) urge to write
As of this writing, I will have published 253 posts since I began this blog at the ending week of December, 2011. Two hundred and fifty three posts in 21…