Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Katie Allen discusses the Equality Trust’s research into tax rates in the UK – which shows that the poor actually pay the highest…
2014
Chilean Dam Project Broken Up Thanks to Activists and Locals
Activism works, just ask the Chilean communities that stopped a hydroelectric dam from being built. The dam was going to cause a lot of local ecological havoc with little actual…
140 Law – Leading Legal Headlines for Monday, June 16, 2014
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Monday, June 16, 2014: Driver’s licence revoked for drunk driving? In Canada you can still fly a plane…
Olivia Chow announces her advisory committee, and it ain’t bad
Check this out. Pretty good – but there are lots more to come. .
There Is Much At Stake
Kathleen Wynne’s victory, Murray Dobbins writes, offers hope — not just to Ontario, but to the rest of Canada: While the right’s hardliners may be lighting their hair on fire,…
Crockatt keeps the C.R.A.P. coming.
Calgary Centre Member of Parliament Joan Crockatt has more CRAP for us than we suspected. It seems to prove that she is really in the running for the best CRAP…
Personal Learning: A Set of Three Talks
Here are abstracts for three talks I have planned for July in London, UK. For APT 2014 (8th July, Greenwich) https://showtime.gre.ac.uk/index.php/ecentre/apt2014/schedConf/index Beyond Free: Open Learning in a Networked World As…
Stephen Harper and the Crimes of the Punditocracy
After the way Stephen Harper has treated the media over the years. After the way he has humbled and humiliated them.Or treated them like stooges.It's hard to believe that some…
Understanding election polls #nlpoli
If you want to get a decent discussion of the Ontario election results and the way polling research tracked the campaign, take a look at a piece from The Star…
Stephen Harper’s Hugely Embarrassing List of Canadian Heroes
Historians will no doubt have a hard time trying to explain how so many Canadians were fooled for so long by Stephen Harper, in the horrifying years known as The…
Hey, BC: Want More Jobs? Dump the LNG and Pipelines!
Well, I found yet another study showing how many MORE jobs we’d get by moving to a post-carbon energy infrastructure and dumping LNG, tarsands, pipelines and all the other Mordor…
Work/Life Balance: A Struggle for Women
By: Nicole Salemi Maintaining a work life balance in the legal field is proven to be a challenging one. Being an active part of a family seems next to impossible…
Dealing with All the Baggage
By: Alyssandra Dunn The lives people, male and female, in any demanding profession can prove to be very taxing and exhausting. The road to getting to these professions can be…
Todd Bentley sneaks back in to British Columbia
By Rick Hiebert. Used by Permission All Rights Reserved Todd Bentley is making a quick visit to his native British Columbia, the first quietly public activity here, since the collapse…
Ric McIver and the March for Jesus: A Lake of Fire Redux?
Tweet “Last year alone, Calgary’s streets were flooded with people of wrong sexual preferences during a homosexual parade of over 30,000 attendees and none of them were embarrassed the slightest…
Keegstra’s Death: Relic of the Past Responds
That James Keegstra did not die on June 12 when the news became public, but in fact died 10 days earlier, is telling. The name Keegstra was still mentioned occasionally…
Choosing a Path in the Legal Field While Balancing a Personal Life
By: Ashlin Kenuck My biggest weakness that I will completely take full responsibility for is my own poor time management skills. Coming into the field of law I knew that…
Hotel comedy
https://mobile.twitter.com/fbiagent4hire/status/478379393996169218 I saw this a few weeks ago, and also think you hold see the Budapest Hotel.
Could Canada’s Anti-Sex Work Bill C-36 Also Stifle LGBT Speech?
Slightly over a week ago, Canada introduced legislation to replace the anti-prostitution laws that had been struck down by the Supreme Court of Canada. The Conservative government has been trying…