Lessons I’ve Learned From a Life of Caregiving
The Four Walls of My Freedom: Lessons I’ve Learned From a Life of Caregiving (House of Anansi Press, 2014) is available everywhere in Canada and for pre-order in the USA.…
2014
Ontario election: conflicting polls, Hudak’s math & Horwath’s bad day
The Ontario election continues to confound observers. Long-serving governments should typically find it harder each time they go to the polls to get re-elected. Scandal-plagued Liberal governments led for the…
Intentional infliction of mental suffering requires subjective wrongdoing
Boucher v. Wal-Mart Canada Corp., 2014 ONCA 419d The tort of intentional infliction of mental suffering has three elements. The plaintiff must prove: · The defendant’s conduct was flagrant and…
Legislative history of limited reliability and weight
Canadian National Railway Co. v.Canada (Attorney General), 2014 SCC 40: This Court has observed that, while Hansard evidence is admitted as relevant to the background and purpose of the legislation,…
Russia-China gas deal: The elephant in the room at BC LNG conference
BC Minister of Natural Gas Rich Coleman open his government’s LNG conference (BC govt flickr photo) Last week week, the BC Government held its second annual LNG In BC Conference,…
I. Trashy. Am depleting the atmosphere. Kill me now.
Solar panels are draining the sun. Crap. Double crap. This week, a scientific research facility in Wyoming made a startling discovery that is certain to change the way millions of…
The Alberta Federation of Labour’s Litmus Test for Alberta’s Opposition Parties
“Sometimes telling the truth hurts…and it will hurt here.”—Rob Anderson, Wildrose MLA at the Alberta Federation of Labour Conference in response to a question about the legal right to strike*…
Southern Ontario Skins: A Cast of Stooges Part II
In one of our previous posts, we briefly introduced our readers to the Southern Ontario "Skinheads'" most recent member: Meet Brodie Walsh, aka "Bee Walsh" aka "Bee Fresh" aka "Straightt…
European Elections
Feel free to compare this to my predictions from earlier. The EU is having it’s elections today. As mentioned in the post linked to above, this is all very complex,…
things i heard at the library: an occasional series: #13
A boy, maybe age 8, was confused about what he needed. He said he needed “chapter books about the human body,” which sounded to me like two things – books…
More on Conference Board Model of Corporate Tax Cuts
Further to my post yesterday about how the Ontario PCs have vastly overstated their own consultants’ estimates of the number of jobs produced by their various policy proposals (including lower…
People are hungry for economics that works for people and the planet
As economics students around the world demand change in the curriculum and challenge their professors to open classrooms to pluralism in perspectives and views, the interest in heterodox economics is…
Taxes = Healthcare
I’m on vacation in Copenhagen and I will also be spending some time in Stockholm before returning home, which explains the dearth of posts here. When attempting to cross a…
Today is Towel Day
Towel Day – Celebrating the life and work of Douglas Adams: A towel, says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great…
Calgary, I’m forced to admit, is a world class city
I have always been inclined to ignore talk about making my city—Calgary—world class. It sounds rather desperate, a sad sort of social-climbing by civic boosters. But now it appears that…
Sunday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your Sunday reading. – James Greiff makes the case against the right’s faith-based reliance on costly high-end tax cuts in place of attracting people through jobs and…
‘Brent at the Focus’ Reports on The Environmental Appeal Board Hearing over SIA’s Application
Shawnigan Lake faces an uncertain future. Here is a very good report from ‘Brent at the Focus’ regarding the BC Environmental Appeal Board Hearing over South Island Aggregates (SIA) applications…
My policy on improving civic education makes the Ontario Liberal Party platform!
Readers of this space will remember my policy on youth voter registration that was passed as a priority policy at the Ontario Young Liberals Summer Fling last year. The policy…
My policy on improving civic education makes the Ontario Liberal Party platform!
Readers of this space will remember my policy on youth voter registration that was passed as a priority policy at the Ontario Young Liberals Summer Fling last year. The policy…