Montaigne’s cat and Descartes’ reality
“When I play with my cat,” wrote French philosopher and essayist, Michel de Montaigne, “Who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.*” That…
2014
"Our Next Progressive Toronto City Councillor": Kate Holloway formally launches bid for city council seat in Ward 20 in Toronto
I’m very happy to be supporting my friend Kate Holloway (pictured) in her bid for a Toronto City Council seat this October. She’s running in Ward 20, Trinity-Spadina, which was…
Opinion Evidence
R. v. M.C., 2014 ONCA 611: The law of evidence distinguishes between fact and opinion. The distinction seems more and ultimately one of convenience rather than of objective reality. All…
The Time It Takes
It was mid morning yesterday when I arrived at my Mom’s apartment and mid afternoon when we ambled out to the car to begin our errands. In the interim, we’d…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Your news links for today: What’s a ‘Reasonable Expectation’ of Privacy? – Michael Geist Harper government asks public servants to delete emails – Toronto Star Inside SS7, the Insecure Global…
Clowns at Midnight, on the Devil
Well-written. Fair points therein. (i ain’t desd yet, BTW.)
Simple Solutions Come From Simple Minds
http://brane-space.blogspot.ca/ What is behind Stephen Harper’s war on sociology? Jakeet Sing writes: So what does Harper have against sociology? First, Harper is clearly trumpeting a standard component of neo-liberal ideology:…
Identification Evidence
R. v. MacDonald, 2014 ONCA 610: The sole issue at this trial was identification and the only evidence linking the appellant to the alleged offences was that of the witness…
Social media and social dialogue
A recent poll done by Pew Research reiterated what I’ve been saying for the past two years: social media (SM) doesn’t necessary facilitate social debate and in fact may be…
Peter MacKayAnt’s justice roundtables didn’t set a place for sex workers
Inspired by this headline: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/peter-mackay-s-justice-roundtables-didn-t-set-a-place-for-sex-workers-1.2747403
Well-Said
Those Star letter-writers nail it yet again: Under Ottawa’s microscope, Insight Aug. 23 If it is not OK for charities to use the money sent to them for the intended…
Formula E Will Get Power from Algae
I’m looking forward to the start of Formula E next month, and it’s exciting to hear that the racing league has signed on with Aquafuel to power their cars with…
Considering the alternatives to Trudeau.
Will Justin Trudeau make a great prime minister? Not likely. Is he better than the alternatives? You bet. There is something of a debate in the household these days about…
Stephen Harper Goes After the Media and the Bigot Vote
As you know I am increasingly concerned about Stephen Harper's state of mind. Because it's pretty clear to me that he is showing signs of cracking under the strain of…
The view from here
Doing edits on the new book, 30,000 words in. Dunno if it’ll sell two copies, but it may surprise a few folks. Heading home in two days. Other surprises await…
The "SmartTrack" Political Context
SmartTrack: Politician designed transit works surprisingly well...for politicians To recap: John Tory has centred his Mayoral campaign on a promise to build a heavy surface rail (he calls "surface subway")…
The "SmartTrack" Political Context
SmartTrack: Politician designed transit works surprisingly well…for politicians To recap: John Tory has centred his Mayoral campaign on a promise to build a heavy surface rail (he calls “surface subway”)…
The "SmartTrack" Political Context
SmartTrack: Politician designed transit works surprisingly well...for politicians To recap: John Tory has centred his Mayoral campaign on a promise to build a heavy surface rail (he calls "surface subway")…