John Tory executes a whiplash-inducing flip-flop on his “NUMBER ONE PRIORITY”
Remember his “Number One Priority©” – the subway relief line? How he would say, over and over, it was “number one”? And how he’d even attack other candidates for not…
2014
Is Red the New Orange?
The Ontario election has featured a deeply divided, ideologically intrenched split. Two polarized points of view on how our province should run which will determine who runs it. To be…
Reasonableness of verdict
R v Jacobs, 2014 ABCA 172: A reviewing court considering the reasonableness of a trial judge’s verdict must determine whether a properly instructed trier of fact could have, on the…
BC Teachers: Liability & the Lockout
The war of words between the BCTF and the BC Government, heated up this week as the government denied that their lockout prevented teachers from organizing and participating in extra-curricular…
Party Platforms – New Democrats pledge to address health care wait times
The New Democrats health platform is about addressing wait times. They say they will cut ER wait times in half and make health care a priority. This is their four-year…
Lisa MacLeod – her mouth runneth over…
Or…. should a candidate make unfounded claims about “dirty tricks”? Dirty tricks – Leaking secret information, digging into a candidate’s past (opposition research) or exposing real conflicts between the image…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Tuesday, May 27, 2014
Your news links for today: Privacy battle heats up over three controversial bills that allow more snooping – Yahoo News Harper government pushes ahead with controversial police powers legislation –…
The 7.9 Billion-Dollar Question: Is the Site C Dam’s Electricity Destined for LNG Industry?
Every day British Columbians flick on light switches, power up their computers and cook dinner, confidently expecting the power supply will not fail them. The expectation that reliable electric power…
Boy Stalin rides again
Robin Sears, who earned his nickname “Boy Stalin” as then NDP premier Bob Rae’s chief of staff wrote this stunner of a commentary trashing the people who signed that open…
Obama: “Remaking the Middle East”: The American Gulag
During the beginning of his first term in office President Obama promised “to remake the Middle East into a region of prosperity and freedom”. Six years later the reality is…
Death of a political party: Absolving Andrea.
Maybe we are becoming jaded by politics but what is happening to the Ontario New Democrats might be momentous. We are watching a bastion disintegrate. It is like a news…
New Enemies, New Misdirections
Last week I wrote a post about the fraught fund-raising later sent out by Conservative Party director of political operations Fred DeLorey. The letter stressed the need to build a…
Why we have political parties and what that means
Parliamentary democracy works on the basis that voters choose the type of government they want through proxies. Specifically, a conservative voter might like Stephen Harper as Prime Minister but that…
Doctors Prescribing Nature
Doctor Robert Zarr prescribes walking in parks to his patients. Regular readers already know that the exposure to nature is beneficial in multiple ways for our physical and mental health.…
Where have I been?
Where have I been the last few months? I’ve been depressed. I still am, but I’m doing better now than I was. It was bad. It started in December and…
140 Law – Leading Legal Headlines for Tuesday, May 27, 2014
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Tuesday, May 27, 2014: Politicized Supreme Court fight one of Harper’s most imprudent acts – The Globe and…
Lame Group Of Seven Painting Fails To Sell
And no wonder. Five dead trees, four rocks, a cloud, and an island. And that is it. The trees aren’t even blowing over the lake as in more ambitious G-of-7…
Jason Kenney and the Foreign Workers Turd Blossom
Oh dear. I'm afraid I have some shocking Con fashion news to report today. It seems that Jason Kenney has been forced to replace his fine feathery foreign workers pimp…
Contrasting Speeches #nlpoli
Liberal leader Dwight Ball and Conservative leader-designate Frank Coleman delivered speeches in St. John’s last week and you couldn’t have scripted more startling contrasts. Ball delivered a speech at an…