Your Daily Digital Digest for Thursday, May 29, 2014
Your news links for today: Prime Minister names DOJ’s top national security and law enforcement lawyer as next Privacy Commissioner of Canada – Canadian Privacy Law Blog PM’s pick of…
May 2014
May 29: painful…
Norbert, the master of saying nothing, outdoes himself today. We have a provincial financial disaster looming. His answer? “If our politicians won’t lead us, should other citizens step up?” Norbert,…
Capitalists, Technocrats and Fanatics: The Ascent of a New Power Bloc
The sweeping electoral victory of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in India is the latest expression of the world-wide advance of a new power bloc which promises to impose a…
New column day
Here, expanding on this post about the Cons’ ruthless discipline in keeping the benefits of any tax policy from flowing to those who need it most – and pointing out…
No Sunshine
You would expect that Ontario’s Liberals would be defeated in this election. After all, Tom Walkom writes: The Liberals have been in power for 11 long years. They’ve presided over…
Canada’s New Parliamentary Budget Officer Doesn’t Disappoint – Stephen Harper
After former Parliamentary budget officer Kevin Page locked horns with the Conservatives over their voodoo math, he was replaced by someone whose inexperience would be much easier to manipulate. Not…
For The Secret Club of Extreme Caregivers – Enter Here
There is a secret club amongst caregivers. Sometimes the experience of caregiving is so extreme, painful, dangerous and exhausting that it cannot easily be described to ‘normal’ friends and family.…
140 Law – Leading Legal Headlines for Thursday, May 29, 2014
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Thursday, May 29, 2014: My (Garry Wise’s) post today @SlawTips: The Law Office Backyard Retreat Quebec unhappy with…
Liberals promise to cap hospital parking fees – not roll them back
After years of telling hospitals to raise the price of parking to make ends meet, the Liberals are now saying they will cap such costs should they be returned to…
Forecast: Very Cloudy Indeed
Mike de Sousa is a former Post Media reporter now operating his own website continuing his investigative work into energy and the environment. He is well-worth paying attention to. His…
Why the PCs think Mike Harris is a big-government union-lover
Many used to contrast the hard right policies of the former Mike Harris Progressive Conservative government with the milder PC policies of Bill Davis and the Big Blue Machine. But…
ITOW: what folks are saying about Flip-Floppin’ John Tory’s “plan”
Matt Elliott, Metro: “Since day one of his campaign, John Tory has been crystal clear that the major focus of his campaign is the Yonge Street Relief Line subway —…
Oilsands in the EU: European Union Receives its First Bitumen Shipment Today
Today an oil tanker carrying between 500,000 and 600,000 barrels of western Canadian oilsands (also called tarsands) bitumen arrives in Bilbao, a port city in northern Spanish. It is the…
When is the truth a ‘channel-changer’?
Why would anyone get excited about the Premier of Ontario wanting to keep her job? She likes her job and she has done it better than many of us expected.…
Stephen Harper and the Catastrophic Decline of the Con Regime
Well I knew he was desperate. I knew he would do anything to try to improve his sagging polls.But after pawing the Chief Justice and trying to rape the constitution,…
Flip-floppin’ John Tory
…he went and dropped his Number One Priority! Fun little silent video prepared by some T.O. students who (clearly) aren’t big fans of John. .
Sentence appeals
R. v. McLean, 2014 PECA 10: Section 687(1) of the Criminal Code directs that on an appeal against sentence, an appellant court is to consider the fitness of the sentence.…