Round One! Thomas Lukaszuk!
“Diamond” Jim Prentice (don’t you just love the “Brian Masonism”) adopted a “nobody moves, nobody gets hurt” strategy for his leadership campaign…and it works for the 99% of his election…
2014
Ontario tenants can offer rent up front
By: Ali Golabgir Precedent setting decision by the Ontario Supreme Court levels the playing field for renters in Ontario. The Residential Tenancies Act of Ontario (citation needed) strictly limits the…
“The Citizenship Act will create two classes of Canadians.”
A summary by Lester Tong The proposed Citizenship Act, or Bill C-24, rather than keep the Canadian citizenship’s value, has the potential to actually make its value more than it…
“Harper’s way out should serve as a Supreme precedent”
Summarized by Paralegal student Michael Yen “Harper’s way out should serve as a Supreme precedent “ by André Pratte, Special to The Globe and Mail, May 29 2014. The aftermath…
By A.Small
Ashley Madison countersues ex-employee On Sunday March 23, 2014 the Toronto Star published a news article which I found of interest. It was a case in which an issue had…
Watch ‘Gasland’ Director Josh Fox Avoid James O’Keefe’s Entrapment Effort
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes-A Fracking Political Post Josh Fox brought the reality of fracking home to millions in Canada and the USA with his films ‘Gasland’, ‘The Sky is Pink’ and…
Hudak Math
It doesn’t add up.
“Lavabit Founder Fought 9-Month Battle with FBI” by: Jasintha Kunasegaram
The article was about Lader Levision, and his 9 month battle with the FBI, and how he was forced into shutting down his e-mail company which he ran for 10…
Innovating for Caregivers at The SIX Vancouver Summer School
I’m on a plane now, reading over the notes I’ve made from the last four days. I’ve just come from a week of listening, sharing and thinking about how society…
Supreme Court rules against lawyer who wouldn’t retire at 65
The following is a summary of the article titled “Supreme Court rules against lawyer who wouldn’t retire at 65” by Jeff Gray, taken from The Globe and Mail news website…
Doctor Associated with Gang-rape Case De-clutters Phone
By Shannon O’Connor Doctor Associated with Gang-rape Case De-clutters Phone Tim Alamenciak, a Toronto Star reporter addressed a topical legal issue in Thursday’s newspaper. The staff reporter discussed a criminal…
Irish swing to the hard Left as voters tire of austerity – Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/10867083/Irish-swing-to-the-hard-Left-as-voters-tire-of-austerity.html?utm_content=bufferfd6d8&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer Filed under: Uncategorized
Waiting for the repressed to oppress us.
The Toronto Star waded into the discussion of prostitution the other day. In four pages of wandering and badly edited prose, Star writer Heather Mallick further muddies the waters on…
Imprudent Economic Management
The Parliamentary Budget Office reported this week that “Canadians are paying Ottawa about $30 billion less this year — or a little less than $1,000 per person — due to…
Benjamin Zycher’s Eight-Year Itch
The controversy regarding the mathematical errors in the Ontario PCs’ “million jobs plan” went viral last week, after a critical mass of economists weighed in to confirm that the party…
Brief Hiatus
I’ve been busy gardening, and then I took a break to check out NYC. The entire album, Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, played in my head on a loop while…
f you’re not over here in fifteen minutes, you can find a new best friend
Hell, I would’ve bought it. .
you can never have too much interspecies love
I’m working on a few actual posts, where I actually write something and you might actually read it. Until those materialize, please enjoy these fine examples of interspecies love. First,…
Set aside an hour to watch this. It is well worth your time.
bigthink.com/neurobonkers/i…. Must share this again. Find a brief hour. Watch this video.— doug rogers (@dougsamu) June 01, 2014 Filed under: comment