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April 2014
What is leadership?
It isn’t lying – and lying and lying again. It isn’t making sexist remarks and hoping they’ll blow over. It isn’t flip-flopping all the time. It’s taking responsibility if you…
Seeing evolution in action
The pop-science notion is that evolution takes a long time. Millennia, many millennia; even millions of years. But is that always true? Can one actually see and measure evolution in…
The Tyee: How this citizen-backed group is creating change on the digital frontier of democracy.
Our own Steve Anderson says it best: “the Internet can be a hugely powerful tool in empowering citizens to shape policies that work for all of us”. Check out this…
Lump sum spousal support
Racco v. Racco, 2014 ONCA 330: This was an appropriate case for a lump sum payment. The appellant has an ability to pay. There was a high level of animosity…
An apparently lawful action – calling the police – may constitute extortion
R. v. Karimi, 2014 ONCA 320: The appellant submits that, as a matter of law, a threat to call the police, standing alone, can never constitute extortion. Again we disagree.…
The Incredible Shrinking Middle Class Jobs
Here’s what really happened in the USA (and Canada?) over the past five or so years: good jobs disappeared and low-paying service jobs replaced them: Nearly half of the new…
From pulp and paper to magazines to progessive politics
Harold Innis wrote the history of Canada around its succession of staple exports, first to Europe and then to the US. He then wrote the history of empires and civilizations…
ConCalls: Who Did The Domestic Calls? #RoboCon #elxnfraud
Some behind the scenes numbers about Elections Canada’s impotent investigation into illegal robocalls… 81. At the national level, the Conservative Party, using data from its Constituent Information Management System (CIMS)…
Similar fact and collusion
R. v. Matthew O’Quinn, 2012 CanLII 67731 (NL PC) Laura Mennie Prov. J. http://www.canlii.org/en/nl/nlpc/doc/2012/2012canlii67731/2012canlii67731.pdfThe accused was charged with a number of offences in relation to his girlfriend, including unlawful confinement,…
What to do if you are attacked by a banana
Throwing a banana a Barcelona soccer player has a familiar ring, doesn’t it.He ate the banana, thus disarming his attacker!
Leading party means nothing in a democracy
Canadians tend to view elections like horse races. The leading horse wins the race and has the right to power. Of course, what this impression leaves out is the fact…
Raising our expectations
Looking back to the defeat of the labor movement since the early 1980s, three lessons seem especially important. First, any gains made under capitalism are temporary; they can be reversed.…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Monday, April 28, 2014
Your news links for today: Creating a Two-Speed Internet – New York Times Editorial The FCC changed course on network neutrality. Here is why you should care. – Stanford Law…
April 28: It don’t change much from day to day – do it?
I always despair of finding anything to comment on (or even to read) in Section A. But today, there was a breath of hope with a report on the provincial…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Alex Himelfarb and Jordan Himelfarb comment on the dangers of failing to talk about taxes: The tax debate is often muddied by disagreement…