Tim Hudak’s Energy Policy, Such As It Is
Tom Adams, who occasionally achieves sanity when writing about energy issues, gets about half-way there in his piece yesterday, in particular when he touches on the pumped-storage project up in…
March 2014
Litter, litter, everywhere
Pop cans. Coffee cups. Candy bar wrappers. Fast food wrappers. Cigarette packages. Cigarette butts. Dog feces. Bags of dog feces. Flyers. Cellophane package wrap. Water bottles. Juice bottles. Chip bags.…
Obviously, The Climate Change Debate is Over
Anybody with the ability to reason realizes that anthropogenic climate change is happening – and it’s happening in an unpredictable but faster way than previously imagined. The fact that fools…
Why I’d support a passenger bill of rights: two words United Airlines
It’s true there are much more serious problems in the world. Poverty, rape culture, climate change. But this morning I want to put that out of my mind and complain…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Tuesday, March 4, 2014
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Tuesday, March 4, 2014: 66-year-old L.A. man awarded $26 million in age discrimination lawsuit against Staples Mayor Rob…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – The Economist looks at the relationship between equality and growth, showing that there’s at worst little evidence that fairer economies have any…
Standard of review for questions of fact and questions of mixed law and fact is deference
Skinner v. Thames Centre (Municipality), 2014 ONCA 164: The standard of review for questions of fact and questions of mixed law and fact is deference, absent a palpable and overriding…
On unsound vessels
Shorter Senate Internal Economy Committee: The real Senate expense scandal is the fact that anybody’s found out about Senators’ misuse of expense claims. How we spend public money is nobody’s…
Harper harms Canada’s reputation.
The objective of foreign relations is not to pander for votes at home. And it is conducted with diplomacy, not a baseball bat. Those are just two of the lessons…
The Coming Implosion
Michael Harris writes that the Harper Party keeps moving closer to its own self destruction. Last weekend, the Manning Conference stripped Mr. Harper naked. He is no longer the leader…
Canada’s Opaque Transparency – An Open Data Failure
Yesterday, at the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada’s (PDAC) Canada Minister of Natural Resource, Joe Oliver, announced with great fanfare a new initiative to compel mining companies to disclose…
On Democracy And Political Leadership
I have a somewhat busy morning ahead, so for the time being I offer the following: Is the answer to things like this, this? Re Manning Takes Aim at Tory…
The View from Europe: America’s Shale Boom Looks More Like a Blip
The fracking boom has progressed at breakneck speed across the U.S., with roughly one in 20 Americans now living within a mile of a well drilled since 2000. So, how…
Three Reasons Why This Anglo Is Thinking About Leaving Quebec: Breach of Trust, Loss of Confidence, Demographics
Truth be told, I have lived in Quebec for the last twenty years. Last week, not much of a surprise, a poll revealed that about 50% of the anglophone and…
The Gentle Spanking of the Con Clown Brad Butt
Golly. Can you believe it eh? The Con clown Brad Butt has finally got his ass spanked. Sort of. By the Speaker of the House of Commons. Read more »
How did she work, exactly? #nlpoli
How odd that the Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador – arguably the busiest job in the province, bar none - received only 46 e-mails in a one week period in…
The Republic of Capitalism: A Chinese ‘Every Man’ talks Morals and Money
Now a growing player in the global market and a curious destination to many, China’s capitalist whitewash has been holding our attention. But how has China’s economic growth affected the…