Nova Scotia and UK team up to study tidal power
The world’s first commercial-scale tidal power generator, in Northern Ireland (Photo courtesy of Siemens) HALIFAX – Nova Scotia and the United Kingdom have agreed to work together on research aimed…
2014
Could Putin Snap?
Now this is worrisome. It is a transcript compiled from verbatim notes of a meeting between Russia’s Vlad Putin and German chancellor Angela Merkel that led Merkel to conclude her…
Yes, Rob Ford is Currently Losing
There’s still some confusion about this. Ford is the incumbent. He has as close to 100% name recognition and voter awareness as any politician can possibly attain. Short of people…
Is Passive Resistance Putin’s Achilles Heel?
Vlad Putin is strutting about Crimea with a huge chip on his shoulder just waiting for some Ukrainian hot head to knock it off. He’s got bases surrounded, soldiers and…
Why Corporations Don’t Want Women In Charge
It’s interesting to see how far we may have come with gender equity. And not. Men, formerly the head of the household, are now more likely to share authority with…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Tuesday, March 4, 2014
Your news links for today: Conservatives harvested emails from livestreams of Aga Khan events – Canada.com Copyright Users’ Rights in Canada Hits Ten: The Tenth Anniversary of the CCH Decision…
“The writer of originality …is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels”
March is women’s history month (in the US). I’m talking about some of the women who have inspired me. Today’s woman is Simone de Beauvoir. She was a French philosopher,…
Petronas’ Canadian shale gas shares attract Chinese and Indian investors
(Photo: Rigzone) Read this Feb 25th article in the International Business Times about Petronas’ Asian business partners investing in the Canadian shale gas market: Malaysia’s state oil firm Petronas will…
Tim Hudak’s Energy Policy, Such As It Is
Tom Adams, who occasionally achieves sanity when writing about energy issues, gets about half-way there in his piece yesterday, in particular when he touches on the pumped-storage project up in…
Litter, litter, everywhere
Pop cans. Coffee cups. Candy bar wrappers. Fast food wrappers. Cigarette packages. Cigarette butts. Dog feces. Bags of dog feces. Flyers. Cellophane package wrap. Water bottles. Juice bottles. Chip bags.…
Obviously, The Climate Change Debate is Over
Anybody with the ability to reason realizes that anthropogenic climate change is happening – and it’s happening in an unpredictable but faster way than previously imagined. The fact that fools…
Why I’d support a passenger bill of rights: two words United Airlines
It’s true there are much more serious problems in the world. Poverty, rape culture, climate change. But this morning I want to put that out of my mind and complain…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Tuesday, March 4, 2014
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Tuesday, March 4, 2014: 66-year-old L.A. man awarded $26 million in age discrimination lawsuit against Staples Mayor Rob…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – The Economist looks at the relationship between equality and growth, showing that there’s at worst little evidence that fairer economies have any…
Standard of review for questions of fact and questions of mixed law and fact is deference
Skinner v. Thames Centre (Municipality), 2014 ONCA 164: The standard of review for questions of fact and questions of mixed law and fact is deference, absent a palpable and overriding…
On unsound vessels
Shorter Senate Internal Economy Committee: The real Senate expense scandal is the fact that anybody’s found out about Senators’ misuse of expense claims. How we spend public money is nobody’s…
Harper harms Canada’s reputation.
The objective of foreign relations is not to pander for votes at home. And it is conducted with diplomacy, not a baseball bat. Those are just two of the lessons…