The Rot Starts At The Top
Regular readers of this space will know that I am no fan of Prime Minister Harper. Yesterday’s revelation that a “boot camp” for new Conservative Senators explicitly told the new…
2013
The Provincial Offences Court, and the Ontario Court of Justice to which appeals go from that court, are the face of justice to many citizens
R. v. Massara, 2013 ONCA 519: Mr. Massara takes issue with the fairness of the proceeding on the motion before the appeal court judge and with the disposition. The Provincial…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Alison Bennett reports on the OECD’s work on offshore tax avoidance, highlighting the “stateless income” that’s shuffled around the globe so as to…
Galileo at the Uffizzi
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Premier David Alward’s ad. promoting Alberta oil pipeline
That should make Alberta happy. New Brunswickers? I don’t know. I saw the ad last night and I was taken aback. I knew he supported the pipeline but to give…
On Solar Panels
By request – how well does using solar panels work? Well, it’s hard to say. I covered my roof with panels under the Ontario MicroFIT (Feed-in Tariff) program that ends…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Friday, August 16, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Friday, August 16, 2013: NSA broke privacy rules thousands of times per year, audit finds (Washington Post) Romanian…
#yegvote Google Hangout #3 with ActivatED
Tweet On last night’s #yegvote Google Hangout, the third in our series, Ryan Hastman, Mack Male, and I were joined by Aliza Dadani from the group ActivatED. According to their…
Study Finds Utility Decoupling is Gaining Traction
This is a guest post by Clint Robertson. A new study found that 25 states had adopted revenue decoupling for at least one natural gas or electric utility by December…
Settling the Senate problem is only a start.
Reading the rambling discourses of the pundits, you would think that the current outcry against the Senate is easy to solve by simply abolishing the place. If it was that…
Review: Dirty Wars
Though the word “Canada” appears only a handful of times in the book and is not even in the index, this is a book about Canada’s wars in the last…
Piffle About Taxes
Four years ago, Stephen Harper declared: “I don’t believe that any taxes are good taxes.” We’ve come to expect that kind of piffle from the prime minister. But, Devon Black…
Kingston mental health cuts: things have changed since 1998
When Ontario last drafted a strategic plan for the delivery of comprehensive mental health services, the Mental Health Commission of Canada didn’t even exist. Today we are still implementing mental…
The Canadian Senate – OPEN THE BOOKS … AND JAIL THE CROOKS!!
Canada’s Conservative and Liberal parties have used and abused the Canadian Senate for their own partisan and personal reasons for decades. The New Democratic Party of Canada has long advocated…
My, My, My
The web blurb for Hello Canada! magazine states the following: HELLO! Canada brings you the latest celebrity & royal news from around the world. This is what graces its current…
Comings and Goings: LCBO edition
Well haven’t I been negligent lately. So much going on! Time for a long overdue post on the business comings and goings in the ‘hood, and then we’ll try to…
Comings and Goings: LCBO edition
Well haven't I been negligent lately. So much going on! Time for a long overdue post on the business comings and goings in the 'hood, and then we'll try to…
Comings and Goings: LCBO edition
Well haven’t I been negligent lately. So much going on! Time for a long overdue post on the business comings and goings in the ‘hood, and then we’ll try to…
bradley manning’s apology: the triumph of torture
Earlier this week, Bradley Manning’s defense ended its case in Manning’s sentencing hearing. Manning made a statement to the military court: an apology. Reading it, I thought of 1984, when…