Your Daily Digital Digest for Tuesday, June 3, 2014
Your news links for today: Critics question nomination of Daniel Therrien as new Privacy Commissioner – CBC’s The Current New privacy watchdog gave legal advice to Canadian spy agencies –…
June 2014
In America Being Fat Is Like Being Poor: It’s Your Fricken Fault
At some point in time, probably not in the immediate future, the Anglo-American world is going to wake up to the fact that no man, nor no woman, is an…
Mandatory Retirement by Alyssandra Dunn
“Supreme Court rules against lawyer who wouldn’t retire at 65” By Alyssandra Dunn Summary John Michael(Mitch) McCormick was a lawyer at Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP for 40 years. At the…
300 Scientists Urge Harper to Reject Panel’s "Flawed" Findings on Enbridge Northern Gateway
This post originally appeared on MikeDeSouza.com and is republished here with permission. Some 300 scientists are urging Prime Minister Stephen Harper to reject a report that recommended approval of a…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Gary Engler explores Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century from the perspective of a reader who’s far more skeptical than Piketty…
140 Law – Leading Legal Headlines for Tuesday, June 3, 2014
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Tuesday, June 3, 2014: Preliminary hearing starts for Bruce Carson, PM’s ex-adviser, charged with influence peddling Tax lawyer…
Note To Tim Hortons Head Office: Please Respect Your Workers
On Sunday, I wrote about The Toronto Star reporting that a Tim Hortons franchisee is eliminating paid breaks for his/her employees as retaliation against the June 1 increase of the…
Obama Takes On Coal Power Plants
Coal is one of the worst sources for energy given that its contribution to destruction of our planet is unmatched. There have been attempts to make coal branded as “clean…
The Turn Of The Screw
Yesterday, Barack Obama announced that the United States is moving to restrict the emissions of its greatest polluter, the coal industry. The objective is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from…
Wynne & OLP have (polling) momentum going into debate
… or so it would appear from the latest polling. Ekos had a 5 pt OLP lead yesterday, while Abacus had a 2 or 7 pt OLP lead (depending on…
It is Spend-a-Million Harper, for what?
The government finally came clean and admitted that the total bill paid by the taxpayers to take the Hair, the hairdresser and some friends to Israel in January was over…
Okay, Hockey’s over (for Habs Fans,) Now It’s World Bup
Living in Montreal is great fun this year: when your team washes out of the Stanley Cup finals, there’s the World Cup to follow. Not that I’m so big on…
Austerity is limited
School districts are forced to economize and they’ve done it in many ways. However, despite squeezing operating budgets so hard that supplies of classroom paper run out, certain costs are…
John, Danny, and voter apathy #nlpoli
Every now and again, someone will talk about voter apathy. Last week, Steve Kent was circulating the link to an article that claimed that youth engagement – getting young people…
this year’s garden and diego’s new favourite food
Three years ago, we planted our first-ever garden, really a tiny garden-ette, growing two tomato plants and some daisies. (I had forgotten about the flowers til I saw that older…
The Day Obama Humiliated Stephen Harper. Again.
Well as you know Stephen Harper has been duelling with the voices in his head. Seeing enemies everywhere, and losing track of what century he's living in.Two days ago he…
Master of survey spinning takes potshot at poll showing Jim Prentice far ahead in Progressive Conservative leadership race
Stephen Carter, back in the day, looking very pleased with himself. Below: Former Carter clients Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi and Alison Redford. Below them: Pollster Janet Brown. What would happen…
When is the next Alberta election?
Tweet With the governing Progressive Conservatives selecting their new leader in September 2014, there is growing suspicion that Albertans could be going to polls sooner than expected. While Alberta’s next…
Debate tonight
My prediction as it currently stands. I can see the polls beginning to trend towards the Liberals. In addition reading deeper into the poll numbers tells me that Liberal support…
By Lauren Wianecki
Supreme Court denies lawyer’s challenge of firm’s mandatory retirement for partners John McCormick, a 65-year-old lawyer previously employed by Fasken Martineau law firm in British Columbia was denied his claim…