Justin over Joyce, by a nose: But how they are BOTH winners.
The conventional wisdom has it that Justin Trudeau has the leadership of the Liberals all but in the bag. Well, all I can say is that the conventional wisdom is…
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140Law – Legal Headlines for Thursday, March 28, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Thursday, March 28, 2013: Same-sex couple wed in Toronto at centre of challenge to U.S. law that creates…
John Oakley is a chickenshit: an Internet mystery in ten easy points
Here’s the recap: 1. Yesterday morning, a producer at the John Oakley Show called me around at 8 and asked me to go on to discuss Rob Ford’s booze problems.…
war resister campaign update: behind the tindungan decision
Supporters of U.S. war resisters in Canada may be interested in hearing about the War Resisters Support Campaign event earlier this week. A large crowd came out to share a…
City to ask CRTC to make space on airwaves for CBC radio station
Coun. Brian McHattie brought forth a motion at city council asking the CRTC to order Astral Media to give up one of its Toronto frequencies that can be heard in…
Thursday’s Practice Tip: Communications with Clients
In our column this week at SlawTips, David Bilinsky and I offer practical solutions to the oft-cited challenge of maintaining good communications with our clients: Once a practice has matured,…
More Financial Worries Coming to Light in Domestic Shale Drilling Industry
Virtually anyone who has followed the onshore drilling bonanza knows the name Aubrey McClendon and the company he co-founded, Chesapeake Energy. McClendon was the hard-driving CEO and chairman of one…
The power of the Internet
You asked, we delivered. Not sure why they drop the volume level on my voice there. Your guess is as good as mine
An open letter to the John Oakley Show
Dear Oakley guys: When I agreed to go on your show to discuss Rob Ford’s drinking problem, yesterday morning, you didn’t tell me Doug Ford would be on too. No…
Hudak Tories In Wind Waffle
Lisa Thompson, Tory MPP for Huron-Bruce, introduced the Ensuring Affordable Energy Act in the Legislative Assembly on Tuesday. Its a private member’s bill, but everything Thompson has said about it,…
Budget downs and ups #nlpoli
Earlier this year, our government projected a deficit for 2013-14 of $1.6 billion. We are now forecasting that the deficit has been significantly reduced to $563.8 million – a billion-dollar…
Pacific Carbon Trust officials must resign
Finance Minister Mike de Jong must demand resignations of the senior executives and directors of Pacific Carbon Trust. They are officials of a publicly owned enterprise but instead dedicated their…
Re: Educate First Nations to be modern citizens
This paternalistic, disgusting, and utterly regrettable article was published in the Nanaimo Daily News. My response, one I hope they publish: Re: Educate First Nations to be modern citizens In…
Stephen Harper, Rob Ford, and the Con Liars
The great Abraham Lincoln once said no man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar. But then he didn't live in Con Canada eh? And he didn't…
Pandas and Pipelines with Rick Mercer
Here is Rick Mercer calling a Pipeline a Panda!
Cyprus, Spain, and Canada too. It’s bail-in’s for everybody.
See what’s going on in Europe? Spain? Cyprus? See a pattern developing here? We’re going to be skipping ahead in the budget analysis for this post. Chapter 3.2 “Establishing a…
Jaden Lake’s Autism on the Hill Rally – Well Done Jaden!
Edmonton MP Mike Lake, whom I have met (at IMFAR 2012 in Toronto) and communicated with a few times about autism in Canada, have different perspectives on the proper role…
Pimpin’
Okay. So this is happening. It’s a play, and I’m in it: But ‘cept tickets for Friday the 19th weren’t selling fast enough, so that show’s been cancelled. But I’d…
UPDATE-2: The road to good intentions is paved with racist tendencies (at least in Canada)
Oh those poor uneducated First Nations! To think that before our superior scurvy filled boats arrived here to share our good fortunes with the simple natives that they were basically…
An appeal in the Kachkar case would likely fail
The Crown can appeal a finding of Not Criminally Responsible but only in very limited circumstances. The Crown has to show the trial judge made a material legal error in…