April 2014
Zing!
Dithers’ “number one priority” just got blowed up, real good. .
We won’t have Medicare II without federal leadership — Himelfarb
Alex Himelfarb understands the 2004 10-year health accord better than most. At the time it was negotiated, he was the highest ranking civil servant in Ottawa. The $41.3 billion Accord…
Qualified privilege
Merit Consultants International Ltd. v. Chandler, 2014 BCCA 121: Qualified privilege, however, is not limited to the contents of documents filed in judicial or quasi-judicial proceedings. As Brown writes (supra,…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Monday, April 14, 2014
Your news links for today: NSA never used Heartbleed to spy, White House says – CBC News NSA Said to Exploit Heartbleed Bug for Intelligence for Years – Bloomberg Obama…
Flaherty: good person, not-so-good finance minister
Jim Flaherty is being remembered by Canadians across the country as a kind, decent person and dedicated public servant. But some pundits are taking things too far. In a shallow…
Reading The Signs
Over the weekend, voters — in Calgary and Kitimat — made two important decisions. Tim Harper writes: In one, Conservatives in Calgary’s Signal Hill riding finally rid themselves of a…
In Praise of our Distinguished Predecessor
J. King Gordon (b.1900, d.1989) was not a professional economist, though as a Rhodes Scholar he studied philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford while inhaling the Fabianism in the air.…
Ducks: A Story About the Tar Sands
Kate Beaton of Hark a Vagrant fame once worked in the Alberta tar sands. She recently made a short comic about her time working there (which she did to pay…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Michael Harris observes that the Cons’ vote suppression tactics match the worst abuses we’d expect from the Tea Party: Stephen Harper would make…
TFW Program: Shut It Down NOW!
A few weeks ago, we learned of a few McDonald’s restaurants abusing the Temporary Foreign Worker program by giving preferential treatment to candidates coming in under the TFW program over…
Quebec (massive post)
Warning, as indicated in the title, this is a massive post. It contains a number of loosely connected ideas that I will go though section by section by section. #1Federal…
First Robin of Spring Sighted…Or At Least, My First Robin
Out walking this morning and sighted the first robin so far this spring. The grass is mostly free of snow, but now yet green here, nor are there any leaves…
The boredom of bitumen.
The wife does not want to read another commentary on tar sands bitumen. She thinks that some people who worry about bitumen should get a life. You have to admit…
April 14: Z-Z-Z-Z-…
It must take very special minds to produce, year after year, a newspaper that says nothing at all. Today, I read the paper through breakfast, with nothing to do on…
Cat looking at things
Filed under: art Tagged: Cat
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Monday, April 14, 2014
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Monday, April 14, 2014: Federal appeals court overturns conviction for ‘white hat’ hacker ‘Weev’ Wall Street Journal on…
A Guest Post From The Mound Of Sound
I have missed reading the Mound of Sound since he put his blog, The Disaffected Lib, on hiatus about five weeks ago. A man of wide-ranging interests and passions, his…
RoTo: 151 days with no policies
But I love Dithers’ addled mouthpiece’s quote at the bottom (link is under the 24 front pic): “It is a fabrication that our campaign doesn’t have strong policies. We will…