New Research: Brains Do Heal Themselves
After a traumatic brain injury, it sometimes happens that the brain can repair itself, building new brain cells to replace damaged ones. But the repair doesn’t happen quickly enough to…
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140 Law – Legal Headlines for Thursday, March 13, 2014
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Thursday, March 13, 2014: My post today @slawtips: Building a Law Firm Website Canada: Court Leaves Glass Empty…
Who loves First-Past-the-Post — for all the wrong reasons?
There are three groups of people who love our corrupt and undemocratic voting system, First-Past-the-Post: partisans, businessmen and Conservatives. Partisans love it because it doles out unfettered power on 39%…
Radical Democracy and Collective Movements in Greece, Spain | Euro Crisis in the Press
Radical Democracy and Collective Movements in Greece, Spain | Euro Crisis in the Press. By Marina Prentoulis and Lasse Thomassen The 2011 movements of the squares, the ‘aganaktismenoi’ and ‘indignados’…
Appeal or cert from Charter based stay under POA
R. v. Courtice Auto Wreckers Limited, 2014 ONCA 189 says appeal: The single issue under appeal is the proper route to be taken by the Crown when it seeks to…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Thursday, March 13, 2014
Your news links for today: Foreign Officials In the Dark About Their Own Spy Agencies’ Cooperation with NSA – The Intercept Ottawa imposes life-long gag order on bureaucrats, lawyers –…
Each Day Seems To Bring A Fresh Outrage
I am someone who believes people should never be too happy or contented. Such states breed a complacency that can lead to an indifference, if not downright disengagement, from the…
New column day
Here, on how Brad Wall is again joining Stephen Harper in putting oil lobbying over the public interest – making excuses for doing absolutely nothing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions…
Craaaaack …
I wanted to like Allison Redford, I really did. But an ongoing series of missteps, clumsy decisions such as major cuts to education and overt hostility to this province’s workers…
Rushing to claim victory—in seven months!
Torontonians now have the main contenders for the Toronto mayoralty in October. You hardly need public opinion polls to tell you who are the serious three and the lesser two.…
John Tory and Karen Stintz: the birthers of Toronto municipal politics
Like their muse Donald Trump, John Tory and Karen Stintz have taken to regurgitating lies that are as old, and as credible, as the Protocols of the Learned Elders of…
Olivia Chow On Scarborough LRT Vs. Subway
I am happy now. On radio this morning, Olivia Chow endorsed the cheaper 7-stop Scarborough LRT over the now-approved/funded 3-stop subway and tax hike.— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 13, 2014…
Leaving Them Behind
When Stephen Harper was the Leader of the Opposition, Andrew Mitrovica writes, he sought out journalists: He courted press coverage enthusiastically. (There’s a word commonly used in Ottawa to describe…
Guilty Indifference
This world is going up in flames, and nobody wanna take the blame. – Charles Bradley This years Oscars have come and gone, and each year becomes more forgettable in…
Olivia’s campaign video
I like it. (And, yes, before you ask, she did experience some facial paralysis recently. So perhaps John Tory’s campaign can mock that, just like they mocked Jean Chretien’s facial…
Watch out, circus! The lion tamer is here!
From today’s Globe, by Gable. Classic. .
All hail the Glorious Leader Trope #nlpoli
“Province to deliver on promise of whistleblower law” read the headline for the CBC’s online story about the provincial government throne speech read Wednesday in the House of Assembly. About…
General James Jones Didn’t Disclose Industry Ties Before Testimony at Keystone XL Hearing
The U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee will hold a hearing today on the U.S. State Department’s national interest determination for the northern half of the proposed TransCanada Keystone XL tar…