Could It Be A Virus?
Stupidity, it has been said, is contagious, and one has to wonder whether a particularly virulent virus is running through the Conservative tent these days. First there was Ontario Progressive…
2015
Investing in Mental Health is Good for Everyone
Mental health is important for everybody and painting it can be challenging for many people. As with most preventive practises it’s wise to invest in it. The benefits of keeping…
Money Counts. People Don’t.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ The Harperites are always hell bent on going to war — as long as someone else is willing to fight it. They are hoping to win the next election…
Essential job requirements to be a CPC or OPC Minister…
1. Publicly state that evolution should not be taught in schools… Check 2. Tweet to the world that evolution should not be considered a “fact”. Check 3. Make slanderdous…
When the chain of command breaks down
I thought it was outrageous then, and I think it’s even more outrageous now.
The literary leanings of a Libertarian.
It is sad to report that we only read the Barrie Sun Media newspaper when it is free. Mind you reading it only takes a few minutes. It strikes us…
The Hill Times’ front page
There I am down at the bottom, below the dead caribou (aren’t we always?). Photo by Lala, column name by Kate Malloy. “The War Room,” by the by, isn’t just…
“Why am I letting myself be beholden to the gatekeeper?”
Franz Kafka has a short story called “Before the Law.” A man seeks access to the law, but when he arrives at the gates of the law, a gatekeeper refuses…
Dear Liberals: This is what you owe Justin Trudeau
Dear Liberals: In the past couple years, whenever Justin Trudeau has made a bad joke or an ill-considered remark – about Ukrainian protestors, about Chinese dictatorships, about the Boston bombings…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Carol Graham discusses the high financial and personal costs of poverty: Reported stress levels are higher on average in the U.S. than…
Anti-Turbine Families Can Suck It Up
There’s no way you are going to initiate a legal action without having been told what the costs might be if you lose. And if your case is a constitutional…
Senategate 2: The Duffy Scandal is Back in the News
It seems like such a long time since Senategate was Canada's hottest and most scandalous show.And I've missed the cast of shady characters so badly. The faithful fanatic Nigel Wright,…
Obesity in Newfoundland and Labrador #nlpoli
A study published in 2014 in the Canadian Medical Association Journal projected that 71 percent of people in Newfoundland and Labrador would be overweight or obese by 2019. Think about…
Brad Love Arrested: Accused of Violating Probation
Brad Love just can't seem to stop getting into trouble. For someone who works as much as he (and Paulie) claim he does, he sure has a lot of time…
The Sad Saga of Vikingwarlord14: Part III
We had anticipated our articles (here and here) detailing the online misadventures of misanthropic shut-in Jonathan "vikingwarrior14" Kotyk could result in a bit of discussion back on Stormfront. That response,…
Conservative yuck factor goes up…
PM Harper, another Tory and evolution-hater MP James Lunney. Yuck and yuck and yuck. It seems the thinly-veiled, socially conservative extremist face of the Conservative movement in this country is…
Stephen Harper and the Fake War on Sexual Offenders
From the moment Stephen Harper and his Con zombies came to power they have been loudly proclaiming, or moaning and wailing, that only they can protect Canadian children.And that anybody…
Why Would You Be Enslaved To A Vegetable?
Vegetable, get behind me! So intones Pastor Pat Robertson in one of his finest hours. Watch and be saved, brothers and sisters! Recommend this Post
Verdun Waterfront Today
Didn’t have my camera when when we got hit with sunshine combined with blinding wet snow but got a few of the aftermath.
Pleading amendment orders interlocutory
Dynasty Furniture Manufacturing Ltd. v. Toronto-Dominion Bank, 2015 ONCA 137: Decisions permitting amendments to pleadings are normally understood to be interlocutory in nature: see Merling v. Southam Inc. (2000), 183…