Ward system plebiscite faces Red Deer voters
TweetYesterday, I travelled to Red Deer to participate in a panel discussion with Mount Royal University professor Duane Bratt and former councillor Larry Pimm about an upcoming plebiscite on whether…
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Where wills presumed to meet formal requirements.
Yen Estate v. Chan, 2013 BCCA 423 holds that in the absence of suspicious circumstances or contrary evidence, the trial judge was entitled to rely on the rebuttable presumptions that…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Debbie Chachra discusses why an effective government is a necessary element of civilization – and why charity can’t fill in the gap:…
Monkey perv
I note this is a photo of a chimp wearing a silk kimono, taking a photograph of a bikini model from an angle which can only be described as avant…
Enbridge Line 9 concern heating up as hearings begin
Watch this informative video from OperationMaple.ca, describing Enbridge’s plan to ship 300,000 barrels/day of Alberta bitumen east by reversing the flow of a 37-year old line from Montreal to Sarnia,…
Russia: Sochi Olympics 2014 and corruption
Last evening I watched a program on CBC on Sochi Olympics 2014. The corruption in Russia is incredible. Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, listens to Jean-Claude Killy, Chairman of the…
Ezra Speaks Out On Latest Defamation Case
Thus far Ezra Levant said nothing re the latest defamation case brought against him. However, I have it on good authority that he will be issuing an official statement on…
Scarborough-Rouge Merger: Some potential questions for tonight’s tele-town hall
Tonight The Scarborough Hospital and Rouge Valley Health System are having their second public telephone town hall to discuss the benefits and risks of a merger. The first town hall…
Why Are Coal Industry PR Pros Laughing About Climate Change in Private Talks on Export Terminals?
This is a guest post by Mike Stark from FossilAgenda. Last month, I attended Platt’s 36th Annual Coal Marketing Days. As a journalist predominantly focused on climate change and the…
They Know Nothing
Former Ontario premier Mike Harris appointed a high school drop out as his first Minister of Education. Stephen Harper has followed in Harris’ footsteps. The other Michael Harris — who…
NDP’s Mulcair is looking for love.
Federal New Democrat Leader Thomas Mulcair has taken a shine to tar sands economics. He has joined with Stephen Harper’s Conservatives who seem titillated with the sexual suggestiveness of having…
Catholics crash poll to protect privilege
Ontario’s Liberal government has done something really cool in setting up an online database for policy ideas that can be submitted and voted up or down to prioritize what the…
Much media ado about not very much #nlpoli
On the face of it, anyone even passingly familiar with political events in Newfoundland and Labrador for the past decade would look with some justifiable scepticism on an announcement from…
Harperland and the Progressive Journey to Victory
It's been pretty grey and wet where I live. It gets dark before you know it. Soon it will be winter in Harperland. In all its grim horror.But on the…
Jonathan Besler Makes Vigilante Border Patrol Crackpot Look Reasonable By Comparison
For a change of pace we decided to see what would be polygamist Jon Besler was up to lately. So far his activity seems to mainly consist of commenting on…
Monsanto is Winning this year’s “Nobel Prize of Agriculture”
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger This message was sent to me along with a petition. (Thanks Tom) Please take a few minutes to read and then forward this along to your friends…
In Tuesday’s Sun: the national language omnishambles
Language changes. Many eons ago at Carleton University’s journalism school, Prof. Roger Bird was listening to some of us energetically debate whether the proper spelling was “cigarette” (as The Canadian…
All in a diplomatic day’s work
So in one single day, we’ve managed to offend the Maldives, take potshots at the Commonwealth (and have some normally friendly Commonwealth allies reproach us), and get into a diplomatic…