140 Law – Legal Headlines for Friday, January 9, 2015
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter: Mackenzie family of Abbotsford, B.C., fined for noisy kids – British Columbia – CBC News N.B. law society reviews…
January 2015
The cover of next week’s New Yorker
Brilliant. Perfect.
He Wants You To Be Very Afraid
http://www.theglobeandmail.com Yesterday, in British Columbia, Stephen Harper warned that the world is beset by Islamists: Harper drew the connection between the Paris attack and what he described as the “international…
Paul Manly Now Seeking Green Party Nomination in Nanaimo-Ladysmith
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger The Federal NDP has turned their backs on many NDP values and shifted to the centre under the leadership of Thomas Mulcair. A disturbing number of NDP…
Wynne is destroying democracy in Ontario.
Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne does not seem to know much about democracy. She got her present job because of a corrupted controlled convention. She thinks she can just appoint whichever…
Meanwhile, Back At The Trough
The steps of Peter Mansbridge and Rex Murphy, I imagine, have a bit of a spring today, content in the knowledge that they are no longer outliers in the land…
Obama Admin’s Year-End Gift to the Oil Industry Quietly Allows Light Oil Exports
In a quiet move in the last days of 2014 that involved zero public debate, the Obama administration gave a big gift to the oil industry by allowing the export…
Exposed: The Grubby Con War on Terror and Canadians
In my last post I wrote about how Stephen Harper is trying to use the Paris tragedy and the politics of fear to try to scare Canadians into voting for…
Frack The Public: UK Shale Gets US Style PR Makeover
BY BRENDAN MONTAGUE AND RICHARD HEASMAN Fracking is an incendiary issue: fractious campaigners are terrified drilling for shale gas will cause earthquakes and contaminate our water supplies. But the chancellor…
The challenge of Hebron and old people #nlpoli
The C.D. Howe Institute released a policy brief on Thursday that argues that demographic changes will hit the people of Newfoundland and Labrador very hard in the years ahead. This…
Premier Jim Prentice is optimistic and pessimistic at the same time: don’t worry your pretty little heads about it
How does Alberta Premier Jim Prentice get to be optimistic and pessimistic about the same thing at the same time in order to reach contradictory conclusions? Can someone explain to…
Keeping up with the floor crossers: Wildrose defection continues to generate plenty of heat, less light
The intense furor over the defection of majority of Alberta Wildrose Opposition to the Progressive Conservative government seems to have prompted new clarifying statements from two of the MLAs widely…
Airhead Global TV meat puppet, explained
So, when I go to Raptors games, I’m confronted with the same thing over and over: the advertising of the Diamond and Diamond “law firm” everywhere I look. I won’t…
Stephen Harper and the Politics of Fear
Even for a man like Stephen Harper with so many screaming voices in his head, it was an astonishing transformation. Something right out of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.One moment…
Recipe for disaster: malpractice followed by neglect
Scotty on Denman left a comment at the previous article, Deplan, de plan and, for me, it resonates. Anyone who reads Recalling BC Pioneers will understand why. Captain Vancouver reported…
To limit global warming, 85% of Canada’s tar sands must stay in the ground: Study
A new study published in the scientific journal Nature says 85% of Canada’s dirty tar sands must “remain in the ground” to limit global warming. The post To limit global…
CBC: Oh, the irony
The government just announced $9 million to promote free expression on the Internet abroad, but what are they doing to prevent censorship here at home? Article by Evan Dyer for…
Shaw is trying to force indie Internet providers to artificially raise prices for Canadians
10418983_10152770578749759_4936705458735744107_n.png New move blocks Canadians from affordable Internet alternatives, in attempt to force independent providers to raise prices in line with Shaw’s recent steep price hike January 8, 2015 –…