Maggie’s Bubble
It’s taken three decades for many Americans to realize that once revered Ronald Reagan was a vacuous bullshitter who steered their country on the path to its current ruin. It…
January 2014
No, Yaakov Roth, The Supreme Court of Canada Is Not Overstepping Its Boundaries
I see the Harper PMO must have found another muppet to write opinion pieces for them. In the National Post, we find Yaakov Roth expounding on the “problems” he has…
Harper’s New Year’s Resolution?
Thanks to the Salamander for alerting me to this tweet from Stephen Lautens: Recommend this Post
A New Year, a New Government, a New Climate. Brace Yourself, Oz.
Australia has just logged 2013 into the books as the hottest year ever recorded. 2013 was also the year that Australians voted in a rabid, free enterprise fossil fueler/climate change…
The Trust Deficit
Frank Graves’ latest poll confirms the conventional wisdom: Canadians are losing trust in their democratic institutions. Trust in Canadian democracy has been on the wane for thirty years; but it…
Mandatory Voting And Social Cohesion
The Toronto Star recently featured the 2013 Atkinson Series: Me, You, Us, journalist and author Michael Valpy’s investigation into social cohesion in Canada — what binds us together, what pulls…
Cold and Heat: Burning Hydrocarbons
It’s cold all over the country right now, weather that usually comes in February here, but which has been with us for more or less two weeks. I’m not one…
New story up at Jersey Devil Press
My latest flash fiction is now up for reading in the 50th edition of the Jersey Devil Press, in either their fancy full-magazine mode, or as a plain old web…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Friday, January 3, 2014
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Friday, January 3, 2014: Federal Judge Strikes Down Florida’s Welfare Drug Testing Law The Global Lawyer | Toronto…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Ryan Meili highlights the need for a plan to address poverty – rather than the customary bromides about a rising tide lifting all…
New column day
Here, on the link between personality politics and the culture of scandal that’s developed around Stephen Harper, Rob Ford and other political figures. For further reading…– Once again, Dan Leger…
Isn’t it enough humiliation that we have Mayor Crackhead?
Do we in Toronto have to thoroughly humiliate ourselves in other ways, too? Good God.
Intellectual Dishonesty at the Ivey Business Journal
Under the headline “Canada Isn’t Rotten to the Core”, the new editor of the Ivey Business Journal, Thomas Watson, attacked my book “Thieves of Bay Street” in his inaugural editorial.…
Mastering the mayoral marathon.
The most daunting marathon in the New Year is the long-running campaigns for mayors and other municipal candidates in Ontario cities. Technically, your campaign cannot start before registration, which opened…
Evidence of the relationship is admissible in domestic abuse cases even where such incidentally shows bad character
R. v. Carroll, 2014 ONCA 2: First, in cases of domestic homicide, evidence may be admitted during the case for the Crown, including evidence of extrinsic misconduct, that elucidates the…
The Cons and the Great Foreign Workers Scam
Well I guess we should have known it was just another Con scam eh? On Tuesday Jason Kenney made it sound like they were making it harder to bring in…
The SRBP 9th Anniversary #nlpoli
It all started on January 3, 2005 and as of today, the Sir Robert Bond Papers is nine years old. As your humble e-scribbler writes this on Thursday evening, the…
Searching The Internet For Time Travellers
From the abstract: Abstract. Time travel has captured the public imagination for much of the past century, but little has been done to actually search for time travelers. Here, three…