140 Law – Legal Headlines for Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Tuesday, October 29, 2013: Do JDs in non-lawyer corporate roles require new ethics model? UN Human Rights Review…
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Robocalls: a whole lot of robo-nothing
Every morning, I go on National Newswatch, the best (and most ethical) news aggregator around. Saw my column there, and saw a nothing story about the long-forgotten Robocall saga. Being…
Choosing challengers for Ford’s job.
It is far too early for a morning line forecast on the race for the Toronto mayoralty but the key apparatchiks are in play. While nobody can legally be campaigning…
The Amazing Drayson Electric Racing Car
The electric car racing league Formula E launches next year, which means that the racers need to build their cars now. The Drayson LMP 1 has 800 bhp and 4000…
Mike Duffy Now Knows The Truth That Buckdog Blog Has Been Warning You Of Concerning Stephen Harper Since Feb 2006!!!
“The millions of Canadians who voted for Prime Minister Harper and the thousands of Tories gathering in Calgary this week would be shocked to see how some of these people,…
Summing Up Mike Duffy’s Speech….
....I'm a greedy, cheating bastard. But they? They are lying, cheating bastards and told me I could get away with it.
Summing Up Mike Duffy’s Speech….
….I’m a greedy, cheating bastard. But they? They are lying, cheating bastards and told me I could get away with it.
Summing Up Mike Duffy’s Speech….
....I'm a greedy, cheating bastard. But they? They are lying, cheating bastards and told me I could get away with it.
Summing Up Mike Duffy’s Speech….
….I’m a greedy, cheating bastard. But they? They are lying, cheating bastards and told me I could get away with it.
Abolish The Senate? You’ve Got To Be Kidding.
Mike Duffy’s speech yesterday should have reminded all Canadians why we have a Senate. Mitchell Anderson writes in The Tyee: Harper’s response to Mike Duffy’s disloyalty has been thermonuclear: essentially…
The Web Grows Ever More Tangled
They say that when he was a journalist, Mike Duffy would often regale his listeners with tales of political intrigue gleaned from his many sources. A raconteur at heart, Duffy…
Pourquoi les Canadiens n’ont pas de temps à consacrer à la politique (L’inégalité et la méfiance qu’elle engendre nourrissent notre apathie politique)
Traduction libre de Why People Have No Time For Politics, un article paru en anglais dans le Toronto Star du 17 juillet 2013. Samara a publié récemment une autre étude…
Pourquoi les Canadiens n’ont pas de temps à consacrer à la politique (L’inégalité et la méfiance qu’elle engendre nourrissent notre apathie politique)
*TRADUCTION LIBRE* Article paru dans le Toronto Star, le 17 juillet 2013 *Why People Have No Time For Politics” Samara a publié récemment une autre étude montrant que les Canadiens,…
Adjunct Professors Join National Fight for Better Pay and Benefits
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=10912 Academia is not usually considered a low-wage field, but adjunct professors around the country are organizing for higher pay and better working conditions like retail and fast food workers…
Tonight we launch an atheist church
It’s been a busy few days as we close in on the launch of Sunday Assembly Leeds, the atheist church that isn’t purely atheist or really a church. We’ve had…
It’s Just A Forum Poll, But…
TORONTO, OCTOBER 23, 2013 ‐ In a random sampling of public opinion taken by the Forum Poll™ among 1859 Canadians 18 years of age and older, almost 4‐in‐10 would vote…
Stephen Harper and the Real Horror of the Senate Scandal
Well as you can probably guess, I'm really enjoying Stephen Harper's Halloween Horror show eh? It's not often that you get to see somebody scaring the shit straw out of…
Oil and Gas Update: 2013 edition #nlpoli
First, the oil. Regular readers will recall the Article 82 issue that will affect how much money the provincial government collects from oil and gas development outside the 200 mile…
The demise of the Annex: Westbank bought Honest Ed site
I don’t know why this news induces both laughter and sadness in me. There’s a salty pool of tears collected by irony. Honest Eds is possibly one of the most…