In spite of Cowichan Bay Estates developer’s disgracefully inept efforts to control the forces of nature after their single-minded rush for profits led them to clearcut and remove topsoil from…
Vaccines provoke the most abrupt and vitriolic attacks from public authorities, vilifying my choices and putting me on the defensive. Here is substantial research from the medical community about deaths…
Sanofi Pasteur Limited v. UPS SCS, Inc., 2015 ONCA 88: The Supreme Court has adopted a principled approach to when the doctrine of privity of contract – under which a…
My friends Laura Miller and Eve Adams (coincidentally) are both in the news today, for different reasons. So, here is some of a column I did awhile back, wherein both…
Eve Adams, former Conservative MP, to join Liberal Party ‘She wanted to be her community’s voice in Ottawa, not the prime minister’s voice in her community’: Trudeau By Kady O’Malley,…
Satire inspired by this headline: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/eve-adams-former-conservative-mp-to-join-liberal-party-1.2950048
Satire inspired by this headline: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/eve-adams-former-conservative-mp-to-join-liberal-party-1.2950048
She was a perfect fit for the Harper caucus. She even hooked up with former Harpo mouthpiece Dimitri Soudas. Then her political career went to hell and she couldn’t even…
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter: Judge Defies Gay Marriage Law Federal court to review denied media access to Omar Khadr Alabama Judge Orders State…
Nowadays, it takes a lot to drag me to the keyboard to bother to write about politics. For one thing, there are other bloggers out there who, given the terrible…
Satire inspired by this headline: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/eve-adams-former-conservative-mp-to-join-liberal-party-1.2950048
R v Takawgak 2015 NUCJ 07: Delay This Court in R v DeJaeger, 2014 NUCJ 21, NuJ No 22 (QL), spoke at length of the difficulties in prosecuting, defending, and…
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Elizabeth Renzetti makes clear that we can’t count on one-time crowdsourcing to perform the same function as a social safety net: This is…
http://beforeitsnews.com/ The CBC has been battered by the antics of Jian Ghomeshi, Peter Mansbridge and Amanda Lang. South of the border, NBC is dealing with the fallout of Brian Williams’…
Health Canada continues to extend a metaphorical middle finger to average Canadians. As has been clearly established by an ongoing Toronto Star investigation, the protectorate persists in placing the fiscal…
Amplifyd Pledges – How It Works from Amplifyd on Vimeo. Amplifyd is a new online platform that connects people to empower campaigns that want to stop corporations from doing evil…
Local readers of Babel-on-the-Bay have asked occasionally why we do not discuss city politics in Barrie. The honest answer is that city politics in Barrie is boring and is something…
I’d jut like to write a quick thank you CASE District II for awarding me an Independent School Scholarship to attend their conference last week. I’m including recap of the…
During famine of the 19th century, Irish people dying of starvation were told to pray for God’s help while traders loaded ships to carry food to England. Referring the poor…
We already know that the provincial government won’t unveil its budget for the new year until late April or early May. That’s not as unusual as it might seem. In…
