How Climate Change Will Kill Us in the Dumbest Possible Way
Couldn’t agree more, stupid is our our story to the end… AKIRA WATTS FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT When we’re not actively engaged in killing each other, watching TV, or occupied…
April 2014
The "mother of all accountants" flays election bill
Sheila Fraser was once one of Stephen Harper’s favourite people. When she, in her capacity of auditor-general, exposed the Chretien government’s sponsorship scandal, sewing the seeds that would bring down…
Victims Bill of Rights
I have read Bill C-32 and there is really nothing very new in it. Most of what it suggests – keeping complainants apprised of how a case is going, taking…
Removal and appointment of estate trustees
Di Michele v. Di Michele, 2014 ONCA 261: The court will remove an estate trustee only if doing so is clearly necessary to ensure the proper management of the trust:…
April 3: …sigh……..
…we have a provincial election coming up. What are the crucial problems we face?1.A wild and destructive economic system that each year makes the rich richer and the poor poorer.…
Bubbles, Panics and Crashes module cancelled
Originally posted on Real-World Economics Review Blog: from today’s Guardian Manchester University move to scrap banking crash module angers students Course leaders cancelled the Bubbles, Panics and Crashes module developed…
Relief from forfeiture under insurance policy
Lavoie v. T.A. McGill Mortgage Services Inc., 2014 ONCA 257 holds that relief from forfeiture may be available where an insurance contract is imperfectly complied with but not where a…
RIP Spousal privilege
One of the oldest principles in law is the spousal privilege. Considered even more sacred than the privilege between a lawyer and client, physician and patient, or cleric and penitent,…
Frankness, honesty, truth-telling and compassion – and the social norms and etiquette that obstruct them
Frankness is necessary now, as is a fierce and unflinching honesty, if human beings are to survive. We face such severe and rapidly escalating global crises, the environmental crisis being…
Please Share: Our image about how the TPP could kick families off the Internet is going viral
Do you think a ‘censor first and ask questions later’ approach is fair? The Trans-Pacific Partnership threatens to kick whole families off the Internet just for suspicion of copyright violation.…
“Instead, the official reiterated the government’s position that political parties and candidates, not Elections Canada, would be responsible for increasing voter turnout under Bill C-23.”
“Instead, the official reiterated the government’s position that political parties and candidates, not Elections Canada, would be responsible for increasing voter turnout under Bill C-23.” That’s the altogether revealing comment…
“Instead, the official reiterated the government’s position that political parties and candidates, not Elections Canada, would be responsible for increasing voter turnout under Bill C-23.”
“Instead, the official reiterated the government’s position that political parties and candidates, not Elections Canada, would be responsible for increasing voter turnout under Bill C-23.” That’s the altogether revealing comment…
BC Liberal director linked to Ontario gas plant scandal
Laura Miller and boyfriend Peter Faist (Facebook photo) Read this April 1 story by Leo Knight in 24 hours, arguing that BC Premier Christy Clark has been too quick to…
The New Dentist
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As NDP Old Guard Takes Over, Division Between "browns" and "greens" Starting to Show
If there’s one thing this week’s release of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Report (“Climate Change: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerabilities“) tells me, it’s that it’s time for the New…
More to Adam Smith and The Wealth of Nations than meets the neoliberal eye
When we think of Adam Smith, the great Scottish philosopher and economist, and his seminal book The Wealth of Nations, we are inclined to think of free markets, individual self-interest,…
Five Canadian Communities Fighting Climate Change That You’ve Probably Never Heard of Before
When you think about what Canada is known for on the international stage these days, fighting climate change is not exactly near the top of the list. Without credible plans…
Ottawa Citizen: Revenue agency big source of data breaches
This government has a terrible record when it comes to protecting our privacy – and things seem to be getting worse, not better with revelations that there were over 3000…
Environment, green economy left out of Quebec election
The PQ’s Pauline Marois and Pierre Karl Péladeau (Photo: Graham Hughes/CP) It is not unusual to hear and read about Québécois saying they don’t like any of the four options…
Is the Concept of ‘Left Unity’ all we have left?
Labour is part of the problem, not the solution Its rhetoric may be softer than the Tories’, but the party still puts profit before people. Left Unity offers a new…