Frail, often elderly, and with nowhere to go
Nobody believes a hospital ward is a long-term solution for patients who have completed their acute care treatment but due to their medical frailty are unable to go home without…
2013
Judges cannot sit in appeal of their own decisions
Brown v. Canada (Attorney General), 2013 ONCA 18 holds: While it was not always the case, I think it can now safely be said that judges cannot sit in appeal…
Ontario Delegate Maps and Charts and Fun!
Earl Washburn over at Canadian Election Atlas has created a great map detailing the winners of each riding in terms of delegates for the OLP Leadership race, along with some…
Interview with Keith Stewart of Greenpeace
Download: keith-stewart-edited-forair.mp3 Roughly one year ago, the federal Minister of Natural Resources, Joe Oliver, issued an open letter attacking “environmental and other radical groups” that “threaten to hijack our regulatory…
Internet Freedom Day | Weekly News Update from OpenMedia.ca
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On Solving Traffic Jams
Cities around the world have problems with vehicular traffic moving slowly. Slow moving cars negatively impact air quality and the ability for road-based mass transit. So what do we do?…
Supporters in the Liberal leadership race
Noted from the media briefing by National Director Ian McKay yesterday on the leadership race, this tweet from @punditsguide: #lpc has allowed #lpcldr to talk to own supporters b4 passing…
Jan.17: What the hell is in Bill C-45?
Today, has a front page story about an Idle-No-More protest by New Brunswick native peoples in Miramichi. – and it still doesn’t tell us what it’s about. There’s nothing about…
The Vile Odour Of Corruption Coming From Stephen Harper’s Conservative Government …
-RCMP Investigate Conservative MP Del Mastro’s election campaign spending -Conservative Finance Minister Flaherty tried to influence broadcast regulator’s decision on radio licence -Highly partisan letters from Conservative Cabinet Minister Julian…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Murray Dobbin writes about the significance of Idle No More as a shift away from the presumption that First Nations’ interests are…
Threating
R v O’Brien 2013 SCC 2 deals with uttering threats. The Court holds, as is settled law, that it is not an essential element of threating that the recipient of…
Ask General Kang: What kind of drug policies do you have on your home world?
Interesting question, no doubt prompted by the recent vote for the decriminalizing of marijuana possession in Washington. Given the bloodthirsty nature of my intergalactic conquests, you will be surprised to…
140Law – Legal Headlines for Thursday, January 17, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Thursday, January 17, 2013: #Ottawapiskat Sheriffs, state lawmakers push back on Obama gun control initiatives “AvoidAClaim” Blog |…
Nexans to build Muskrat Falls underwater cable #nlpoli
Nalcor has awarded a contract valued at more than $106 million to Nexans Norway AS to construct the underwater cable for the Muskrat Falls project, according to a news release…
New column day
Here, on the general irrationality of the right-wing obsession with chaining public services and tax rates to population growth – and the particularly egregious application of that theory by the…
Mulcair’s Meeting
Can you name them all? I couldn’t. Especially not the person shrouded by Selinger’s head. Good photography there.. A couple of days ago, Thomas Mulcair met with what I assume…
An Angry Spring
The Idle No More protests across the country yesterday were the opening salvo in what is shaping up to be an angry spring. Rest assured that there will be calls…