Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter: Dershowitz Supplements His Request to Intervene in Jane Doe Lawsuit Criminal surveillance material to be available incivil matters Judge’s…
You have to wonder about Katherine Zahn. Not much has been going right lately for the CEO of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). Data shows incidents of…
No matter when the Prime Minister decides to call the election (we will still give odds on October), the only important question is: Can he be beaten? We would advise…
I have only one purpose in this brief post, and that is to strongly recommend that you take a look at Dr. Dawg’s latest post. A trenchant and incisive dissection…
Well it must have been a grim scene in the PMO bunker last night. For years the Con propaganda machine has tried to brainwash Canadians into believing that Stephen Harper…
Gerry Rogers is smiling again now that Earle McCurdy has agreed to be the NDP Kevin Aylward. If Earle had decided to stay retired, Gerry was the substitute leader the…
Yesterday I told you how Erin O'Toole, Julian Fantino's equally ghastly replacement, had gone after Mike Blais and his veteran's group. Now it turns out that wasn't an isolated incident,…
Just when we’d despaired of ever hearing again from Rob Anders, the man who will be Canada’s worst Member of Parliament only a little longer, he announced “a sense of…
The EU must face facts: austerity has failed Greece – Equal Times. By Paul De Grauwe The Greek debt crisis that erupted in 2010 is back, and again threatens the…
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Very little action on the blog front, as you can see, because current projects have got in the way. But here’s a bit of news about a project that’s coming…
U.S. copyright trolls think they can shake Canadians down for artificial fees. They’ve got another think coming. Article by Christopher Malmo for Vice Last week, the government said it would…
This is a guest post by David Suzuki. It sometimes seems people in the mining and fossil fuel industries — along with their government promoters — don’t believe in the…
As the pages on our calendars are turned from one year to the next, we are reminded that the future can’t be held back. It’s going to come on its…
A news story tells us what happened. That’s all. It does not tell us what to think of it. That is not the role of a reporter. A columnist can…
Licia Corbella has very quietly walked back her earlier figure for Ezra’s court costs when he went up against the AHRC:His offices were never bombed, but he was forced to…
As you may have heard, Shaw is trying to abuse their control of key Internet infrastructure to increase Internet prices for Canadians who subscribe to independent ISPs. Not only are…
The economic benefits for Ontario of TransCanada’s proposed Energy East pipeline are “likely inflated” according to a study commissioned by the province’s energy regulator. “The economic impact of the project…
…often go awry. So sayeth Robbie Burns (not The Bard, as I mistakenly said on Twitter, and my genial colleague Chris Blizzard promptly set me straight). Man oh man, this…
In this episode of DeSmogCAST our team discusses Obama’s recent promise to veto legislation put forward by a Republican-led Congress to expedite construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. While the…
