2015
Note To Peter Mansbridge
H/t Occupy Canada Recommend this Post
Failure to cross examine promptly may bar adjournment request
Vista Bahia LP v. Cleaver Crawford LLP, 2015 ONCA 77: The record confirms that the date of the application – July 24, 2014 – was fixed at Heritage’s request to…
Plan to go to Paris for a vacation of visit? Then take this with you
Right in the heart of Paris is the Notre Dame cathedral, which celebrated its 850th birthday a little while ago. If you plan to visit Paris, then you should download…
Huffington Post: FCC Chairman makes a huge promise
Are we in for a big win against the Internet slow lane? Article by Josh Tabish for The Huffington Post Yesterday, U.S. FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler announced his agency’s commitment…
Contradictory polls
So we have a couple of polls out today: Ekos (who is behind a paywall) has the CPC suddenly leading by 3% 35-32 over the LPC due to a sudden…
Judicial Review of Site C Dam Approval May Delay Project Start
The Peace Valley Landowner Association is celebrating a small victory following a Federal Court decision that four applications for judicial reviews of the massive Site C dam, planned for the…
OpenMedia is crowdsourcing a Jumbotron at the FCC for the final Net Neutrality push
FCC Chair Tom Wheeler has just revealed key details about upcoming rules to stop Big Telecom’s Internet slow lane plan. Decision-makers are on the right path but we know telecom…
Hammering Harper’s Hypocrisy – Rick Mercer Does It Again
Should you ask Rick Mercer if he thinks the Harper regime is treating our vets fairly, he will give you this earful: Recommend this Post
Federal Court denies BC Hydro’s request to hurry up Site C challenge
Peace Valley ranchers Ken and Arlene Boon are plaintiffs in several Site C Dam challenges (Damien Gillis) A federal court judge has denied BC Hydro’s motion to rush a legal…
USA Today Boots Bibi to the Curb
A recent editorial in USA Today is getting a good bit of coverage in the Israeli press. It suggests that no good lies in store for either country in Benjamin…
Feb. 5: Government is about people…..
Greece is deeply in debt to international banks. The human suffering in that country has been profound – and the malnutrition deadly. But the banks refuse to give easier terms…
The New Frontier is the Russian Border
Think of it as the new equivalent of the East German-West German border. It was across that border that NATO (i.e. US) and Warsaw Pact (i.e. Soviet) forces glared at…
Media talks debt
How to characterize the mainstream media reaction to the unfolding debt negotiations between Greece and Europe (not the financial press mind you, which knows what it’s about though sides largely…
A Trillion Dollars Worth of Stranded Assets
A stranded asset is any asset that gets hit by “unanticipated or premature write-downs, devaluations or conversion to liabilities.” These days the term is most commonly applied to high-cost, high-carbon…
Sask Premier Brad Wall May Use ‘Notwithstanding Clause’ To Sidestep Supreme Court Decision On Right To Strike …
Premier Brad Wall continues to hold firm to the base ideology of a ‘businesses over persons’ ideologue and says he may invoke the Canadian Constitution’s ‘notwithstanding clause’ to suppress a…
Norway Dumps High Carbon Fossil Fuels. Adios, Athabasca.
It’s the largest sovereign wealth fund on the planet; Norway’s pride and Canada’s shame; and it’s divesting, getting out of coal, bitumen, concrete and gold mining. If Steve Harper and…
So, they broke up the Bobbsey Twins!
In recent years, we have had the fun of writing about the Bobbsey twins of the Harper cabinet. Specifically, they have been Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird and Employment Minister…
Vlad Putin – NATO’s Essential Enemy
Vlad Putin has given NATO – well, nothing less than a reason to exist a little longer. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, NATO was a headless chicken, running…