Getting Your Legal Writing Right
I remember the time that a favourite client of mine gave me a schooling in the art of legal writing – and proofreading. A retired lawyer (and the consummate gentleman),…
2015
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Posing As A World Leader
http://www.ndtv.com/ Ostensibly, Indian Prime Minister Modi is in Canada to sign a uranium deal and ease visa restrictions between the two countries. Don’t believe it. Tim Harper writes: Take a…
Harper Confidential: The Secrets He Doesn’t Want Canadians To know
As we know Stephen Harper is preparing to pass Bill C-51 so he can turn Canada into a police state and spy on us all.Because he does want to dig…
Sliding from have to have-not
Statistics Canada provides surveys that allow analysis of employment. In my opinion, one data set that gains too little attention is the employment rate. It refers to the number of…
On the significance of sound and fury.
Oh journalists, you love a strong response to an unanswerable question don’t you? The media are really into nailing down what each party leader thinks about coalitions after the next…
In Vancouver, Canada’s first annual Charter of Rights and Freedoms march
Canada’s first annual Rights and Freedoms March, a celebration of the anniversary of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, launches in Vancouver on April 17. The post In Vancouver,…
Jason Kenney and the Tweet Monster
Oh no. Somebody do something. Jason Kenney is in trouble, again.He's supposed to be terrorizing the Russians.Canada will deploy approximately 200 troops to Ukraine to train local forces fighting Russian-backed…
Has anyone seen the Liberals lately? #nlpoli
This editorial by Craig Westcott originally appeared in The Pearl newspaper and is re-produced here with permission. Two of the most serious issues to hit Newfoundland and Labrador in some…
Review: Disability Politics & Theory
This is a short and accessible introduction to some key ideas relevant to disability politics, written from a radical perspective by someone with extensive experience in radical disability, anti-globalization, and…
Alberta Election 2015: Candidate and Fundraising Updates
As of today, only the New Democrats and Progressive Conservatives are the only parties to have nominated a full slate of candidates in all 87 constituencies across Alberta. Friday, April…
SFH, one year ago tonight
Happy birthday, Bjorn. And, who’s the guy second from right, the one with glasses? Don’t recognize him.
Where Abstinence Sex-Ed Goes Wrong
She's being completely condescending. "You can look up anything on the internet" Then refers him to site on abstinence education! — Alice Dreger (@AliceDreger) April 15, 2015 "You'll find a…
Underground and Under Pressure: Groundwater in BC’s Northeast
Thursday, April 16, 2015 BC has had the dubious distinction of being the “Wild West for groundwater” – with no licensing of groundwater resources – for over a hundred years.…
New column day
Here, on Brad Wall’s appalling admission that the Saskatchewan Party’s plan for a low-carbon economy is to move into Ontario’s basement rather than pursuing sustainable development in Saskatchewan. For further…
April 16: The worst yet….
….I didn’t think it possible. The big story is that premier Gallant gave a speech to big business leaders at Canadian Club in Toronto – and he spoke from the…
Woodfibre LNG: Shady PR, lobby violations, fraudulent, eco-criminal owner…Is this the kind of business BC wants to welcome?
Sukanto Tanoto (right), the man behind the proposed Woodfibre LNG project The war against an LNG plant in Squamish is heating up, and as the late singer Al Jolson said,…
On PZ Myers and Atheist Ireland – what she said
I can’t add much to this statement from Secular Woman on the recent “public dissociation” controversy. I will admit that this blog was briefly listed as one of the Secular…