Mulcair smart enough to fight fire with fire
Thomas Mulcair unloaded both barrels on newly minted finance minister Joe Oliver with sound bites that grabbed the media spotlight. After watching a parade of political leaders go down in…
2014
The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that retroactive changes to parole eligibility brought in by the Harper government are unconstitutional
The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that retroactive changes to parole eligibility brought in by the Harper government are unconstitutional. The top court was the third successive court to…
Redford has no one to blame but herself
. No one, least of all politicians, likes to admit just how big a role outside forces play in one’s political success – and failure. Strong MPs are defeated when…
Fighting the good fight against the Beer Store.
Martin Regg Cohn of the Toronto Star knows how it feels. He has been on the front lines for the Toronto Star long enough that he is showing the tedium…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Thursday, March 20, 2014
Your news links for today: Canada’s Digital Divide Persists, CIRA Report Shows – Huffington Post Why internet upload speed in Canada lags world average – CBC News Canadians’ heavy internet…
Price too high for Scarborough-Rouge hospitals to sustain merger plan
In the end the price was too much. The merger between the Scarborough and Rouge Valley hospitals appears to be sidelined after months of intense activity including unprecedented community consultation.…
Flaherty’s Legacy: Ideological, reckless and just plain lucky
This piece was originally published at the Globe and Mail’s online Report on Business feature, EconomyLab. There are two reasons why it is difficult to comment on the legacy of…
New column day
Here, on how the cult of “lean” is just part of the most damaging Saskatchewan Party belief which is undermining our health care system and other public services. For further…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Bruce Livesey discusses Tony Blair’s role in corporatizing social democracy. And Stephen Elliott-Buckley writes that there’s little reason to listen to the…
Flaherty’s legacy? Ideological, reckless and just plain lucky – Armine Yalnizyan
In the people’s republic of Chris, Armine Yalnizyan is finance minister. I really love how she dissects this “Jim Flaherty steady hand on the tiller” narrative that so many commercial…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Thursday, March 20, 2014
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Thursday, March 20, 2014: Illinois Lawyer is suspended for faking illness to avoid oral argument First Canadian Antibody…
Full Blown Paranoia
Commentators are lining up to praise Jim Flaherty. Andrew Coyne is not among them. Under Flaherty, he writes, budgets ceased to have much meaning. They became masterpieces of obfuscation: Under…
Harper’s Palpable, Consistent Contempt
Yesterday, fellow-blogger LeDaro posted a video from last May when Harper invited reporters to a caucus meeting to hear his speech, then refused to answer questions about the Senate scandal…
Sarah Thomson starts her campaign by breaking the law
Check this out. The John Tory stalking horse has been soliciting donations for her “campaign” before she was even a candidate. As I write this, she’s arriving at City Hall…
OLP Leads In Real Poll!
One from NANOS, that is: The Liberals are at 36 percent support followed by the PCs at 33 percent and the NDP at 25 percent. The Green Party had 7…
Mindmapping Explained
Mindmapping, originally uploaded by lunchbreath. Heh, I think I may get my students to have a look at this. I totally agree with the designer that use of the word…
Toronto to Pond Inlet is the same distance as Toronto to Vancouver
About 3300 km – but to Vancouver you go west and to Pond Inlet you go north. Canada is a very big country!!!
Putting character in issue is not a condition precedent to having a prior criminal record admitted
R. v. Lepine, 2013 NWTCA 8 is a source for the proposition that while putting character in issue is relevant to a Corbett application such is not a condition precedent…
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