So here’s the deal: the future of the open Internet is on the line. The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), an international trade deal involving 12 Pacific Rim countries, threatens to make…
Virginia Intermont College in Bristol, VA held its final graduation ceremony in May 4, 2014. The school had been in financial trouble for a while. The beginning of the end…
Thomas Piketty’s real challenge was to the FT’s Rolex types | Comment is free | The Guardian. If the FT’s attack on the radical economist’s ‘rising inequality’ thesis is right,…
Scores in EU elections for radical left (corrections and additions welcome) Germany Die Linke: 7.40% DKP: 0.1% MLPD: 0.1% Belgium PTB-GO!: 2.02% PDVA+: 1.47% Denmark Socialistisk Folkeparti: 10.90 Folkebevægelsen mod…
For the sheer joy of it, I suspect: To know and respect nature is to know and respect ourselves. All is connected. Recommend this Post
My daughter has the same dress code at her school. It’s galling. Supposedly done to keep ‘the boys’ from getting distracted and to help them improve their marks. And for…
From the industry association representing companies that provide sureties and other bonds, released May 26, 2014: News Release For Immediate Release: May 26, 2014 Recent remarks by Nick McGrath, Minister…
As some of you may already know I am on the editorial collective at Ricochet, a new independent media project for progressive voices. For those who know me personally or
Ten years ago, The Corporation, a seminal Canadian documentary, changed the way the world thinks about the nature and role of corporations in society. It would later influence movements like…
There is a good book by Benjamin DeMott Junk Politics: Trashing of the American Mind DeMott laments the loss of intelligent debate in the political arena, being replaced, in part,…
Upchurch v. Oshawa (City), 2014 ONCA 425: The elements of the tort of malicious prosecution require a plaintiff to prove: 1. The prosecution was initiated by the defendant2. The prosecution…
David Cameron and the Spitzenkandidaten Remember The Cullen Plan for pre-election electoral cooperation between the NDP and Liberals? He advocated a deal which enabled one candidate to run against the…
I love elections. They represent the raw spirit of what we strive for when we talk about democracy. I hate elections. Our current system pushes us to be frustrated, confused…
Online privacy is at the heart of a healthy modern democracy, according to this editor. But privacy is under threat, and it’s time to take action to defend it. Speak…
R. v. Kutynec, 1992 CanLII 7751: In other words, if the facts as alleged by the defence in its summary provide no basis for a finding of a Charter infringement,…
Between multiple events involving organizations the Ontario Progressive Conservatives oppose funding and an uncomfortably embarrassing botched presser on board a TTC subway, Tim Hudak can barely catch a break this…
R. v. Girimonte, O.J. No. 4961 (O.C.A.): 38. The fact that the preliminary inquiry may serve the discovery interests of the defence does not alter the purpose of the preliminary…
Your news links for today: A Three Front Legal Campaign: CSEC, Metadata And Civil Liberties – National Security Law Blog Privacy watchdogs troubled by controversial bill extending police powers –…
Dr. Connie Harris invites you to join us We’re talking about the Estuary Saturday June 14, 9-5, Vancouver Island University in Duncan, lecture hall. CERCA symposium.So, here we were, the…
“We’ll do whatever it takes to stop WPD Canada from putting the wind turbines in this vicinity,” said Wilson. “It is in process, and it may end up in a…
