140 Law – Legal Headlines for Monday, May 5, 2014
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Monday, May 5, 2014: Pistorius trial resumes Rob Ford’s lawyer urges release of new ‘crack’ video – Toronto…
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The Making Of A Banana Republic
Michael Harris doesn’t mince words. Canada, he writes, is at a watershed moment: What’s it going to be: a modern democracy or a Steve’s banana republic of the north? The…
Harper, Wynne ‘unnecessary election’ nonsense
In 2011, the Harper Government was found in Contempt of Parliament for refusing to release public budget documents to the Budget Officer it appointed. Although this corruption was clearly unnecessary,…
Well-Said
While I may write something of my own later today, the letters in this morning’s Star are both incisive and damning of the Harper regime’s penchant for insinuating itself into…
The Morning Line: Ontario Election 2014.
How can you have a race without a morning line? The political parties are at post and the gamblers among us need more than just performance statistics to compute their…
Fine Print on Baker Hughes New Fracking Fluid Disclosure Policy Draws Skepticism
Back in 2008, Cathy Behr, a nurse who worked at a Durango, Colorado hospital was hospitalized after suffering a cascade of organ failures. Days earlier, Ms. Behr had treated an…
Thoughts on the upcoming provincial election in Ontario
You would know from reading this blog or searching its archives I’ve not exactly been overflowing in my praise for the Ontario Liberal government the past several years. I had…
Andrea Horwath: What? No Policy?
Andrea Horwath’s day today consists of one media interview, a media availability, and two photo ops. That is all. It is, indeed, all.
The House comes back… what’s on the menu? #nlpoli
As far as when Frank Coleman might find the time to get around to taking over the Premier’s job, not much as it seems. It’s till vague, undefined, and potentially…
Pro-Kiev radicals linked to lethal attack on Trade Unions House in Odessa: MSM avoids placing blame
Top: Molotov cocktail being thrown at Trade Unions building Odessa Bottom left: A ‘jumper’ tries to escape the inferno The forty-six people who died in the fire that engulfed the…
Build Your Own Wind Turbine
Off the gird living just got a little easier thanks to inventor Daniel Connell who has put instructions on how to build a wind turbine for $30 online. It’s not…
Archbishop Desmond Tutu: No Excuse For Climate Ignorance
* The Guardian: We need an apartheid-style boycott to save the planet: We must stop climate change. And we can, if we use the tactics that worked in South Africa…
Stephen Harper’s Shameful Day of Dishonour
As you may know, Stephen Harper has proclaimed that next Friday should be a National Day of Honour. The Government of Canada has set aside this day to mark the…
Protest Vancouver Police Brutality, 2014 Edition
How many times do you think you deserve to be kneed in the back while you’re already subdued by police on the sidewalk, face-down? Vancouver Police gratuitous brutality from May…
The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Sets The Record Straight
Chief Justice Beverley McGlachlin Does the government’s enemies list now include judges? Faced with insinuations of improper conduct from the Prime Minister’s Office and reported widely in the press, the…
Harper’s Attack on Supreme Court Chief Justice McLachlin Unacceptable
Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s attack on Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin is an attack on Canadians and Canadian democracy. It’s unacceptable. by: Obert Madondo | May 4, 2014 Prime Minister Stephen…
Italy’s wealth gap grows as real incomes fall for the majority, new research shows
Originally posted on Revolting Europe: The ten richest people in Italy now own as much wealth as almost 500,000 working class families put together. A little less than two thousand…
Mr Hancock’s Cockamamie Apology
“I’m truly sorry that we allowed government to become a distraction from the vital work we’re doing on issues that matter to Albertans.”— Premier Dave Hancock to PC party supporters,…
The 9 drawings
The 9 drawings Here are the sketches from Uber Cool cat sketch day Filed under: art Tagged: Cat, dog, madeWithPaper, Not a cat
Assembly of First Nations Chief Shawn Atleo’s Statement of Resignation
by: Admins | May 2, 2014 (Ottawa, ON) – Assembly of First Nations (AFN) National Chief Shawn A-in-chut Atleo made the below statement in Ottawa, ON today. “I have stated…