Message to Christy Clark
Anita Roddick, businesswoman, activist and founder of The Body Shop, said that when leaders are not ethically sound, innovation coming from them, “Is only innovation on puffery.” Puffery, for people…
2013
Costs to a losing litigant
William v. British Columbia, 2013 BCCA 1 is a highly unusual case where a losing party is awarded costs: While it is very rare for a court to award costs…
5493…Prime Minister Martin Misspeaks
The man who built the Liberals into the Bronze medal winning team they are today told CTV’s Question Period that he told Chief Theresa Spence that “…she’d become really an…
5492…Happy Birthday Globetrotters
The Harlem Globetrotters first laced them up on this day in 1927. The locale was Hinckley, Illinois, not far from their base in Chicago. Len Berman’s That’s Sports turned me…
5491…There Is Joy In Mudville Er Ottawa
And Tronna, MTL, Van, Calgary, Ed and the ‘Peg. The NHL is back. Front page news all across the GWN. WFDS
Elections Canada Disappears Evidence of Election Law Violations
There are a number of disturbing implications to a new report from CBC, mainly because the individual involved is a Cabinet minister (Peter Penashue, Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs and MP…
Study reveals same-sex relationships in China over millennia
Sociologist Pan Guangdan has found plenty of historical documents bearing evidence to the existence and tolerance of homosexuality in China over thousands of years. For example, during his groundbreaking study,…
Study reveals same-sex relationships in China over millennia
Sociologist Pan Guangdan has found plenty of historical documents bearing evidence to the existence and tolerance of homosexuality in China over thousands of years. For example, during his groundbreaking study,…
Study reveals same-sex relationships in China over millennia
Sociologist Pan Guangdan has found plenty of historical documents bearing evidence to the existence and tolerance of homosexuality in China over thousands of years. For example, during his groundbreaking study,…
What Does the Bank of Canada Do?
The Board of Directors of the Bank of Canada have retained Odgers Berndtson to seek a new Governor, and have placed an ad in the Globe and Mail, the Economist…
Politicians As CEO’s
When Brian Mulroney first ran for prime minister, his sales pitch was that he would run government like a business. Mike Harris liked to refer to himself as Ontario’s CEO.…
The gang of eight: in charge of #ldnont
Filed under: caricature, cartoons, digital, drawings, London Tagged: Brian Orser, Bud Polhill, caricature, city, City council, Dale Henderson, Denise Brown, Gang of Eight, Joe Fontana, Joe Swan, Paul Van Meer…
Study reveals same-sex relationships in China over millennia
Sociologist Pan Guangdan has found plenty of historical documents bearing evidence to the existence and tolerance of homosexuality in China over thousands of years. For example, during his groundbreaking study,…
$#*! da Premier says: Freudian slip edition #nlpoli
Premier Kathy Dunderdale, quoted in the Globe and Mail in a story on sanctioning of the Hebron project: Our goal has been to ensure that Newfoundlanders and Labradorians are the…
140Law – Legal Headlines for Monday, January 7, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Monday, January 7, 2013: Birther Queen Orly Taitz Explains to Judge: She Is Pretty Much Thurgood Marshall, Yo…
In Ireland, Carbon Tax Means Less Waste and More Revenue
Modern economies indirectly subsidize environmentally damaging corporate practices by ignoring the environmental costs ( younger generations have to deal with the environmental damage), this can be seen in everything from…
OpenMedia’s Reilly Yeo: A garden of online innovation
Check out this volunteer-made video of our own Reilly Yeo, who explains why the open Internet is so important. Spread it around to show why your involvement in Canada’s digital…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – Michael Harris discusses the impending moment of truth for the Cons in owning up to their substantive failures toward Canada’s First Nations: Whether…