Heckling the Home Team: Off-Duty Conduct and Dismissal for Cause
BY NITIN PARDAL, LAWYER, WISE LAW OFFICE Can you be fired for booing the home team? As this Toronto Star article points out, it might not be out of the…
2014
Tar Sands Trade: Kuwait Buys Stake in Alberta As It Opens Own Heavy Oil Spigot
Chevron made waves in the business world when it announced its October 6 sale of 30-percent of its holdings in the Alberta-based Duvernay Shale basin to Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration…
Tar Sands Trade: Kuwait Buys Stake in Alberta As It Opens Own Heavy Oil Spigot
Chevron made waves in the business world when it announced its October 6 sale of 30-percent of its holdings in the Alberta-based Duvernay Shale basin to Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration…
Are You "Just Happy to See Me," or Looking to Get Fired?
This grocery store worker from Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y, was terminated for leaving work with far more meat in his pants than he arrived with. $1,200.00 more meat, to be precise. (Make…
Oh, the humanity
Happy thanksgiving everyone, though somewhat belated. The greatest line in television history: As god is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.
Bomb’Em All – Well Except the Kurds, Maybe
By now we’ve all been well steeped in the brutal excesses of ISIS – beheadings, mass executions, torture – in Middle Eastern parlance, the full nine yards. And so we’re…
Big blue balloon
Meow Paper by 53 introduced a collaborative social network in it’s latest version. Someone posts an image, someone extends it. This word balloon was posted. I added the little cat,…
Harper’s Zipper: Stuck Again
ANALYSIS Conservatives’ copyright law changes could backfire Does the government really want to trigger a debate over the use of political attack ads? By Kady O’Malley, CBC News Posted: Oct…
Flirting With Fascism
ICYMI: @DonMartinCTV does his last word on changes to the Copyright Act http://t.co/bLonc1F5om @ctvnewschannel #cdnpoli — CTV Power Play (@CTV_PowerPlay) October 9, 2014 It’s about damn time someone in the…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Tuesday, October 14, 2014
Your news links for today: Attack Ads, Copyright, and Collusion: Have Canada’s Major Broadcasters Violated the Competition Act? – Ariel Katz Much Ado About Copyright, Campaigns and Political Ads –…
Is Canada the Sweden of anything?
There was an odd article last week on the explainer site Vox that argued Sweden doesn’t achieve its relative equality with very progressive, “soak the rich” taxation. While Matt Bruenig…
Who’s Gonna Stand Up?
Neil Young has just written the anthem for the climate movement. The chorus is: Who’s gonna stand up and save the earth? Who’s gonna say that she’s had enough? Who’s…
u.s. war resisters in canada are at serious risk. here’s how you can help.
The War Resisters Support Campaign is facing an unprecedented crisis. Since war resister Kimberly Rivera was forced out of the country in September 2012, there had been no movement on…
Christy Clark’s Proposed Societies Act Overhaul Is Breathtakingly Stupid
B.C.’s Christy Clark government is proposing to overhaul the Societies Act, and they’ve distributed a snoozer of a White Paper to let you know all about it. If you’ve dozed…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Alex Hunsberger argues that the Good Jobs Summit reflected a gap between labour strategies aimed merely at trying to take a slightly…
#EnergyEast Hot Tub Party
TransCanada wants to use an old pipe that was designed for another product, and send tarsand bitumen through it, under Regina and many communities. What municipalities are crazy enough to…
Peddling Snake Oil
http://littlegeorgiesblog-a-thon.blogspot.ca/ Stephen Harper has been traveling the country, announcing tax breaks. So you know the election campaign is on. But the real proof that Mr. Harper is in campaign mode,…
London Lowered Speed Limits to Save Lives
Cars kill. Or is it like the gun debate – cars don’t kill people drivers kill people? Regardless of fault the results of car use as a primary means of…
Expect Crazy High Fruit and Vegetable Prices Soon in B.C.
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger The drought in California has become a serious threat to their ability to continue to grow the food demanded by their export market. At the same time…
The Globe And Mail: Same Old, Same Old
We are currently receiving a three-month free subscription to The Globe and Mail, a paper I supported for many years until it returned to its largely right-wing nature after vanquishing…