For the fourth consecutive year in a row, wage settlements in the broader provincial public sector (i.e. public sector workers, like hospital employees, who do not work for federal or…
Pirani v. Esmail, 2014 ONCA 279 In my view the appropriate amount of costs lies somewhere between the submissions of the two parties. As explained by this court in Fong…
Your passwords used on the Internet are likely known to bad people if you’ve recently logged into Yahoo, the CRA, or other popular websites. You should consider changing all of…
Yesterday, I opened with the report by Seymour Hersh, a superb journalist, that Obama had planned to go to war against Syria, a war set to begin on August 29.…
Your news links for today: Heartbleed Bug prompts Revenue Canada website shutdown – CBC The Heartbleed Bug, explained – Vox Canada Revenue Agency has fired staff for privacy violations, committee…
And from reporters! Reporting on sworn testimony in an Ontario Legislature committee yesterday! Tweet one, by Katie Franzois, who is the much-loved Queen’s Park bureau chief for Newstalk 1010: What’s…
So T.O. mayoral candidate Rob Ford is giving a presser at Soccerworld today. But somebody there is not a fan: Mayor Ford’s presser is with Soccerworld Toronto. But not everyone…
The purpose of economics is to find a system that allocates resources in the most effective way possible for the greatest benefit of society. Even right-wing, free-market ideologues like Ronald…
The Harper government seems intent on proving to its detractors and critics that things can always get worse. No matter how many anti-democratic outrages and subsequent unapologetic stonewalling they deliver…
Religious texts are full of admonitions about avoiding temptation. The Lord’s Prayer tells God to “lead us not into temptation.” Fat lot of good that does. Not only do we…
And under the “methinks he doth protest too much” file, enjoy this. Recommend this Post
Regina’s alternative newspaper, The Prairie Dog, has an excellent article by retired Politcal Science professor, Dr. John Conway: A Bad Campaign The party invented by René Lévesque in 1968 is…
Gord Tulk, who resembles a computer virus, has defamed a person in comments by calling them a member of a terrorist group. I don’t want to get sued for his…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – David Dayen discusses how prepaid debit cards are turning into the latest means for the financial sector to extract artificial fees from consumers.…
Car culture in North America has led to massive subsidies for car drivers that go pretty much unnoticed. One of these subsidies is in the way of “free parking,” which…
Monday’s landslide win by Phillipe Couillard and his Québec Liberal Party is a great sign that the idea of sovereignty may have been set aside for a long time. But…
My gal – and many other women, gays and lesbians, and minorities – have been attacked and stalked by a monster calling himself “Sattva Namaste” for weeks. This creep is…
Despite the sneaky efforts of a lunatic in Ottawa, my amazing lawyers, Brian Shiller and Angela Chaisson, won me another case yesterday. The defendants learned, the hard way, not to…
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Wednesday, April 9, 2014: Here’s everything you need to know about the Heartbleed web security flaw Auditors won’t…
