Your Daily Digital Digest for Thursday, February 12, 2015
Your news links for today: Parliament must reject the anti-terror bill – Globe and Mail How Canadian Spies Infiltrated the Internet’s Core to Watch What You Do Online – VICE…
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PM’s new election face: Lose one minister, shuffle three
Satire inspired by this headline: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/stephen-harper-s-new-election-face-lose-one-minister-shuffle-three-1.2954017
Confirmation of testimony rather than corroboration of same
Language matters a great deal in law. Words are sometimes seen as having almost magical powers — and one word, corroboration, has a troubled history. But that does not mean…
Die Media Die! February 13th Is Last Day For Sun News Network?
A sad, sad scene. Kory is home sulking. Ezra is out on the sidewalk hawking pencils to pay-off his latest defamation suit. When they lower the shutters its gonna resemble…
Another Europe with Syriza
Photo by Diliff There is no doubt that the near majority obtained by Syriza in the elections last month represent a point-of-no-return for Europe. This is the result most feared…
Caught In His Own Web
http://pixgood.com/ The plan was to ensnare the opposition in an economic web from which they could not escape. Instead, Stephen Harper finds that his economic strategy has come
New column day
Here, on how the Saskatchewan Party’s manipulative consultation designed to push liquor retailing into the private sector only managed to highlight the fact that our current system is working just…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Elias Isquith interviews Mark Blyth about his book on the disastrous consequences of austerity, while Paul Krugman writes that austerity is particularly…
Expert Evidence
Moore v. Getahun, 2015 ONCA 55; Expert evidence is a significant and controversial feature of modern civil litigation. It constitutes an exception to the rule that witnesses may only testify…
Which will the NDP put first: party or country?
Photo by Matt Jiggins Anyone who really wants to get the country back from the grim reaper now in charge of Canada – and who knows our political history –…
Sharpen Your Pencils, Alberta. Slash-and-burn is back.
Living in the land of the lowest taxation rates in Canada allows many personal benefits but long-term government stability has not been one of them. Relying heavily on natural resource…
The Hair hopes to hit for a homer.
And you thought the Hair had already hit the wall in his search for talent in his Conservative caucus. When you have a guy like Pierre Poilievre on your team,…
This Is Terrible
Disgraceful. Absolutely disgraceful. (Heh, heh heh) H/t Murray S. Grant Recommend this Post
Money and Politics in Newfoundland and Labrador #nlpoli
Some people are making a big deal over the fact that the judge heading the boundaries commission made political donations to both the Liberal and Conservative parties in the province…
Germany faces impossible choice as Greek austerity revolt spreads – Telegraph
Germany faces impossible choice as Greek austerity revolt spreads – Telegraph. By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard The political centre across southern Europe is disintegrating. Establishment parties of centre-left and centre-right – La…