140Law – Legal Headlines for the Week of March 2, 2015
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter: Toronto bakeries Sweet Olenka’s and Dufflet spar over naming of small cakes Top Employment Law Developments In 2014 –…
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter: Toronto bakeries Sweet Olenka’s and Dufflet spar over naming of small cakes Top Employment Law Developments In 2014 –…
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Robert Reich discusses how outsized corporate influence in the U.S. has kept the general public from sharing in any nominal economic improvements: The…
Your news links for today: Raising the Broadcast White Flag: What Lies Behind Bell’s Radical Plan to Raise TV Fees, Block Content, Violate Net Neutrality & Fight Netflix – Michael…
Here’s a fun exercise for aspiring communications directors out there. Complete the following sentence, in a way that isn’t offesnive: “I’m going to put this in terms of colours but…
Look no further for confirmation of the federal force’s politicization than a piece written by that ‘environmental extremist’ David Suzuki in the Chronicle Herald. In the article, Suzuki makes reference…
Ah ha. Told you so. In a medium where ubiquity is authority and authority is viewership, paywalls were never going to work. A pre-internet business model applied, unmodified to completely…
It's already the most disgusting election campaign in modern Canadian history. With Stephen Harper fanning the flames of anti-Muslim bigotry in Quebec.And the Con MP, and former Harper communications director…
Cognitive behavioural therapy can be used by people dealing with schizophrenia to improve their lives. Just six sessions of the therapy can help people deal with worry which can lead…
http://thetyee.ca/ The conventional wisdom holds that Stephen Harper’s base is old and intellectually lazy. I suspect that’s true. But we need be neither physically nor intellectually frail
This blog rarely apologizes. And nobody has prompted this apology other than our feeling of guilt the other day. We just feel that fair is fair. It came like a…
As you probably know, I'm still having a REALLY hard time coming to terms with the brutal fact that Jason Kenney is Canada's Defence Minister.The very thought that a chubby…
The only news to come out of the New Democratic Party convention this past weekend is that the party now has not one but two leaders. Earle won’t be looking…
If there was any doubt that CBC management has either lost its moral compass, or its marbles, now there can be none.For all you have to do to arrive at…
This is Smog. Before I tell you too much about Smog, I should tell you that I have never been able to successfully pick out a proper cat. I’m okay…
Don Maroc Last week the North Cowichan Council discussed the installation of a $1.4 million artificial turf field on one of the soccer pitches on Sherman Road. They were ready…
This powerful anti-sexual violence ad, released just in time for the 2015 International Woman’s Day, is part of Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne’s ambitious $41-million plan to combat sexual violence. The…
In recognition of International Women’s Day, today’s candidate update focuses specifically on the total number of women nominated to run for Alberta’s political parties in the upcoming provincial election. Women…
One of my favourite voting systems is known as Condorcet. In short, the ‘winner’ is not the person with the most votes, but rather, the person everyone is okay with.…
Saudi Arabia has now displaced India to become the largest armaments importer in the world. Saudi imports are reported to have shot up an alarming 54% over just the past…
Jean-Francois Ponsot Associate Professor of Economics, Université de Grenoble (France) and Louis-Philippe Rochon Associate Professor of Economics, Laurentian University (Canada) Co-Editor, Review of Keynesian Economics ___________________ The final agreement between…