140 Law – Legal Headlines for Thursday, November 14, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Friday, November 15, 2013: Rob Ford’s oral sex comments draw ire of colleagues Canadian Karlheinz Schreiber convicted of…
November 2013
Toronto needs a mayor: Olivia is a winner, Tory and Stintz aren’t
If you want to be absolutely sure to get rid of the Crackhead Mayor – and 75 per cent of Torontonians do – there’s only one person who can do…
Consecutive and concurrent sentences
Cumulative punishments are known as consecutive sentences. This only applies to jail sentences, all other sentences run concurrently. All sentences are presumed to be served concurrently. Generally, sentences for offences…
Friday Morning ‘Rider Blogging
Ideally, a football team would hope to be able to win on its own terms in the playoffs. But that wasn’t to be for the Saskatchewan Roughriders in their semi-final…
T.O. Bus Drivers Talk Ford Scandal
Got a friendly bus driver last evening. He apologized profusely, on behalf of the City of Toronto and the TTC itself, for the fact that no less than three (3)…
Making Accountability Real
At the beginning of the last century, the heyday of Progressivism, a new tool was given to voters — the recall election. The Rob Ford saga has many lessons. But…
Toronto needs a mayor: my Mom renders judgment
My Mom lives alone in Kingston. She is an artist, and she is very proper. I’ve never seen her in sweatpants, or go out in public looking even remotely informal.…
EVERYDAY CELEBRATIONS: An Antidote to Despair
For caregivers who are exhausted and lonely, the idea of creating a home celebration can be outlandish. Often, we think, “what is there to celebrate? I’m too tired to take…
Rob Ford needs his fishing buddy Stephen Harper.
There is no better form of bonding between men than fishing. It is a quiet introspective time that you share with a true buddy. And what better buddies could there…
BC NDP at the Fracking Crossroad!
Kevin Logan-Cowichan Conversations Contributor This weekend is a pivotal weekend for the future of British Columbia. The stars seemed to have aligned as overlapping events occur simultaneously all of which…
You know ratings must be bad at SunTV when..
You may have heard of the saying, “the left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing”. That saying may be too charitable for what has just occurred at…
Softball #nlpoli
No wonder the Conservatives are smiling a lot these days. Not only have the New Democrats imploded as an effective political force but their leader has decided her job is…
An Excellent Week For Autism Advocacy! Suzanne Wright Speaks Out and John Elder Robison Resigns
Thank You Suzanne Wright! It was a good week for reality based autism advocacy for two reasons. First, I was very encouraged by Suzanne Wright’s very honest description of the…
I say interesting things
I’ve submitted a piece to the Pod Delusion, the partner podcast of the British Humanist Association. It’s a podcast about interesting things. You can find me speaking about the Sunday…
Baksheesh, bustarella, schmiergeld, kuroi kiri
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet. – William Shakespeare Organizations that aim to safeguard assets create effective operational…
Tyler Sturrup: “If I have a fucking question about her I’ll make her be dead."
More disturbing testimony today at the murder trial of Robert Reitmeier. Yesterday and today the jury heard Tyler Sturrup and Robert Reitmeier conversations between Reitmeier and Tyler Sturrup which appears…
LNG companies change pipeline routes to avoid bear sanctuaries
photo: Ian McAllister/Pacific Wild Valhalla Wilderness Society is reporting that a pair of proposed natural gas pipelines connected to liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals planned for Prince Rupert will no…
Sober second thought: A half-hearted defence of Don Cherry, Stephen Harper and Julian Fantino in military drag
Stephen Harper in his cool green Canadian Forces flight jacket. With him, Alberta Premier Alison Redford and Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi, during last June’s flooding, both looking as if they…
Premier Christy Clark defends LNG industry’s carbon footprint
photo: Tina Lovgreen / BCIT Commons Read this Nov. 13 story from CBC.ca on BC Premier Christy Clark’s response to mounting concerns over the massive carbon footprint associated with her…
Piggy Ford, Sun News, and Harper’s Fatal Hat Trick
Gosh. I've never started a post with the same picture I used to end the last one eh? But you really can't repeat this enough times: You can't put lipstick…