Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Linda Tirado writes about life in poverty – and the real prospect that anybody short of the extremely wealthy can wind up there:…
2014
Final New Brunswick Projection – Did the Map Get More Blue?
Uh-oh. The last couple of weeks have seen a dramatic tightening of the race in the province of New Brunswick between the governing Progressives Conservatives, led by Premier David Alward…
Rehtaeh Parsons Case: guilty
I’ve been following this important case for quite some time. From her Dad, this morning, som,e important news: This morning I sat in a Halifax courtroom and listened as one…
Labour Silence on Climate Change ‘A Dereliction of Duty’
The business community demands the British government does more to tackle climate change, including sending clear signals to international markets. Ed Miliband must show leadership on the international stage on…
140 Law – Legal Healdines for Monday, September 22, 2014
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Monday, September 22, 2014: Thanks Twitterland for helping us reach 2000 followers. Stinging message from self-represented litigants to…
Viewers Guide – NB Election 2014
I’ve created a viewers guide for New Brunswick. Results are expected to come in at world-record pace; or at least, a record for Canada. I say normally you get useless…
Harper’s CRTC dog won’t hunt.
It was like old times at the Canadian Radio-Television Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) hearing last Friday. You could see the anger rising in the commission chairman’s face. The only problem was…
Electronic Rights Defence Committee: Payout Starts
I consider this something of a personal victory. After more than 17 years of work and worry, the Electronic Rights Defence Committee (ERDC) has received the green light from Quebec…
Anxiety Breeds Passivity
Over the weekend, Conservative senators announced that they will re-introduce a bill which previously sparked rebellion in the Red Chamber. The bill would force unions to publicly disclose their spending.…
Feel Better By Visiting Your Local Library
It turns out that by simply using your local library you can improve your life – no matter what you read. As long as you make use of what the…
More Evidence That Stephen Harper is Planning an Early Election
If there was any doubt that Stephen Harper is going for an early election, maybe even sooner than most people imagine, now there can be none.For not only is he…
The end of everything
Something to think about, on the last day of Summer. From the NYT:
Stephen Harper and the Climate Change Revolt
They marched in Canada, they marched all over world, and in New York it was one of the biggest demonstrations that city has ever seen. Legions of demonstrators frustrated by…
Edges #nlpoli
The Premier’s Office issued a couple of news releases last week about what someone they called the Premier-Designate would be doing. The first release was a curiosity. The second one…
CRTC Amps Up the Volume on Commercials
CRTC Amps Up the Volume on Commercials (Abstract: so far no-one has come clean on the CRTC’s decision to allow/facilitate cable companies’ jacking up volumes on digital commercial content exponentially…
CRTC Amps Up the Volume on Commercials
CRTC Amps Up the Volume on Commercials (Abstract: so far no-one has come clean on the CRTC’s decision to allow/facilitate cable companies’ jacking up volumes on digital commercial content exponentially…
CRTC Amps Up the Volume on Commercials
CRTC Amps Up the Volume on Commercials(Abstract: so far no-one has come clean on the CRTC’s decision to allow/facilitate cable companies’ jacking up volumes on digital commercial content exponentially beyond…