SlawTips: 5 Tips on Marketing for Law Firms (Video)
The world of marketing remains a bit of a mystery for many legal professionals. We know enough about it that many of us become do-it-ourselfers for our websites, blogs and…
2015
Five Years of Five Years of Bucan Bucan– What A Treat!
Bucan Bucan, the #1 Balkan Brass Band out of Victoria BC, celebrate 5 years of playing together! Visit bucanbucan.com for more info, or bucanbucan.bandcamp.com to take a listen!
Harper Conservatives vs the IMF on Deficits
Here is an extract from my column on balanced budgets in the Globe ROB today. “When it comes to balancing the books, the Harper government is seemingly more Catholic than…
Feb. 19: People come – oh – somewhere down on the list –
…maybe— Page A 1. “District to study future of two schools….” The Anglophone school district for this region is planning to close two schools. They’re rural schools that, like most…
Similar Fact Evidence
R. v. Graham, 2015 ONCA 113: Evidence as to an accused’s general disposition or bad character is presumptively inadmissible. This exclusionary rule seeks to guard against the risk of convicting…
And Just When You thought It Was Safe To Go Back To Facebook
Pastor Pat has a warning for those given to ‘abhorrent’ practices. Recommend this Post
Will the E.U. Again Pull the Rug Out From Under Harper’s Feet?
The European Union’s FQD, fuel quality directive, was once seen as a bitumen killer. It’s intended to encourage the use of lower-carbon oil and to kill off the European market…
Podcast: Leo Panitch on Syriza and Greece
https://politicalehconomy.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/podcast150220-leo-panitch.mp3 This week I’ve devoted the entire show to discussing the most recent developments in Greece. While there is a great deal of day-to-day drama at the level of the…
The Parliamentary fashion item of the season!
Pat Martin, Canada’s own Calvin Klein!
Grexit, schmexit: It ain’t gonna happen
For sale? Owner must sell … Right now a battle of Homeric proportions is being waged for the future soul of the European Union. On one side are the Teutonic…
And the Next Nuclear Power in the Middle East Is….
You’re probably thinking Iran. What about Saudi Arabia, the bunch of radical Sunni extremists we consider our close ally? Take it from The Times (of London, of course) where it’s…
Oh, My God! What If We Got This One Completely Wrong?
A recent article in Aviation Week claims that senior officers in the Pentagon are beginning to evaluate whether counter-measures already developed by the two obvious adversaries of the F-35 have…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Thursday, February 19, 2015
Your news links for today: “Total Information Awareness”: The Disastrous Privacy Consequences of Bill C-51 – Michael Geist Bill C-51: Political battle lines drawn over anti-terror bill as election nears…
Feeding His Base
Fear fueled Stephen Harper’s victory in 2011. Back then, he stoked fears about a coalition government. This time around, he hopes to surf back to power by fanning two categories…
We Must Not Be Afraid-Elizabeth May -This Legislation is Sweeping, Dangerously Vague and Likely Ineffective-Mulcair
Project Democracy Elizabeth May and Thomas Mulcair have both shown great leadership in standing up against Harper’s reckless, vague and unnecessary Secret Police bill. Send them a thank you by…
On oversight
Since one of the main issues talked about so far in relation to the Cons’ terror bill is the question of oversight, I’ll point back to what I said the…
Diseased Leadership
Almost four years ago I wrote a post on failed leadership, using the Elizabethan notion of The Great Chain of Being as it pertained to the relationship between the governed…
The Loon Lake fire
I don’t get truly outraged very often, but this story truly outrages me. It should outrage you, too. LOON LAKE, Sask. The volunteer fire chief in a Saskatchewan village says…