josh lueke is a rapist and why we should continue to say so
Stacey May Fowles has written a incisive, biting, and definitive piece about shaming men who rape. I can scarcely quote from it (although I will), because every word is not…
2014
Barrick Gold Faces Demonstration Against Human Rights, Environmental Abuses at Toronto AGM
Barrick Gold’s shareholders will be greeted by a familiar sight in Toronto this morning: protesters are once again gathering outside the Annual General Meeting of the world’s largest gold mining…
Is It Irony, Or Is It Hypocrisy?
It may be both. The Harper regime’s penchant for withholding information from the public that should be accessible is well-known and well-documented. As pointed out in this Star article, we…
Don’t believe the (LNG) hype
Today we released a new report, Path to Prosperity? A Closer Look at British Columbia’s Natural Gas Royalties and Proposed LNG Income Tax, about liquefied natural gas (LNG ) development…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Your news links for today: Government makes over a million requests a year for data from telecoms – Chronicle Herald Government agencies seek telecom user data at ‘jaw-dropping’ rates –…
A visceral, jarring work: A review of Children 404
“Children like me simply don’t exist for them.” With these ominous words, spoken over a crackling telephone connection, Children 404 draws to a close; its unsettling conclusion signaled by an…
Careful What You Ask A Georgian Grandma
Lawyers should never ask a Georgia grandma a question if they aren’t prepared for the answer. In a trial, a Southern small-town prosecuting attorney called his first witness, a grandmotherly,…
Evidence on a voir dire forms no part of trial proper
Sadikov OJ No. 376: 30 A voir dire is held to determine the admissibility of evidence proposed for admission by a party to a criminal proceeding: R. v. Parsons (1977),…
Mr. Harper: Can You Even Read?
If I didn’t know better, I’d swear that Harper doesn’t know how to read a legal decision. Yesterday, in Question Period, Harper said the following: “The Supreme Court has ruled…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Andrew Jackson reviews Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century, while Paul Mason offers a useful summary. And David Atkins applies its most…
The Lancet Calls on Canada to be a Good Global Citizen
The Lancet is a medical journal that is known for its direct and terse reports, the are perhaps best known for their detailed account of the death toll in Iraq…
CAMH asks staff to mail patients’ cigarettes back home
Ah, Rosie. Toronto Star columnist Rosie DiManno recently used her shotgun style prose to take the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) to school. While addiction is part of…
Setting Seeds and Farmers Free
Here is a good news story from the University of Wisconsin. Move over Monsanto new open source seeds are being developed and made available without restrictive patents. OSSI on CBC’s…
SFH through the ages
Came across this one in the Punk Rock Hall of Fame vault, and put it on Twitter to irritate Steve Deceive. As you read this, millions of mohawked youngsters are…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Wednesday, April 30th, 2014
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Wednesday, April 30th, 2014: Land transfer tax carries huge costs for Toronto, report says Kenyan president signs polygamy…
Get off the dime Justin.
Liberals are waiting for Leader Justin Trudeau to act and every day he dithers is another day when the party is losing sight of the objective. You can hardly expect…
Transform This: iconic Johnny Cash photo used to protest Saskatchewan university cuts
Things may soon be looking grim for many students and faculty at the University of Saskatchewan. The Saskatoon-based institution is looking to slash up to $25 million from its operating…
Someone Else Will Pick Up The Tab
The Harperites promised Canada’s Afghan Veterans a National Day of Honour. But they’re not going to pay for it. Tim Harper writes: Corporate Canada and True Patriot Love, the charitable…
Sorry, but Tory’s Twister stunt not Stratego – too much Risk. Being a real Mayor is not a Trivial Pursuit
Don Eady brilliantly sums up the Twitter stunt of John Tory’s oxymoronic brain trust (and you’d think they’d wash their hair for a photo shoot!). Classic. Anyway, don’t take the…