This Is Sooo Wrong. The Rise of the "Techno Tot"
Steve Jobs didn’t let his own kids have iPads. Plenty of other parents don’t have Steve’s reservations or his insights. Psychologist Sue Palmer says that parents are using iPads as…
October 2016
Laws Needed to Protect Citizens from Industry, Government SLAPP Suits: B.C. Civil Liberties Association
Allowing wealthy corporations or powerful government agencies to launch baseless court cases against citizens who speak out against them is putting a chill on free expression in B.C. and there…
That’s Too Much Dirt to Sweep Under the RCMP Carpet. Who Am I Kidding?
RCMP commissioner Bob Paulson has a bag just full of cash. He’s hoping it’s enough to make a huge problem just go away. Paulson has $100-million tax dollars to settle…
How To Help Your Loved One With Alzheimer’s Stay Safe In The Home
Guest Post by Paul Denikin: Paul enjoys working on DIY home repair projects. He is passionate about sharing his experiences working on DIY projects through dadknowsdiy.com to benefit people with…
We get letters: a Trump fan (and SFH critic) responds
Clearly, Steve Deceive, Snipe, Bjorn von Flapjack III and Yours Screwly will have to work harder with this correspondent!
SFH: Donald Trump Is An Asshole!
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Basic Income
The Ontario government has committed to test the idea of a basic income. Over the next week or so Hugh Segal will release a discussion paper intended to guide the…
The 2nd Monday of October
Meanwhile in Canada … Every year on the second Monday of October, Canadians celebrate the end of the Moose Ascendancy. During this dark period of… The post The 2nd Monday…
Think of Yourself as Collateral Damage
We’re all familiar with the reality of collateral damage these days. An Afghan wedding party gets disrupted by an uninvited guest in the form of a thousand pound high explosive…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Alex Himelfarb and Trish Hennessy offer their take as to what we should expect out of Ontario’s basic income experiment: Critics rightly argue…
LawFact of the Day: Wills and Estates
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Friday Octiber 7, 2016. Today we are talking about Wills and Estates. A video posted by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on…
If someone abducted your children, would you have things to say?
Alison Azer does. Foreign Affairs Minister Stéphane Dion jeered and gave a thumbs-down gesture in the House of Commons Thursday when the Conservatives raised the case of four Canadian children…
Judicial Officers show presumptively have their costs of a discipline hearing regardless of result
Massiah v Justices of the Peace Review Council, 2016 ONSC 6191: In my view, the 2012 Panel started from a flawed premise, that is, that where there has been a…
The New Cold War
We are engaged in a new Cold War. Tom Walkom writes: In the West, the old Cold War was portrayed as a battle between Communist dictatorship and capitalist freedom. Given…
Patience: Elites at work.
It seems we might be seeing more of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s elitist senate. A committee of senators think they should have their own television channel. It is just a…
Is Donald Trump’s Campaign Going Off the Rails?
Watching Donald Trump these days is like watching a mad man riding a roller coaster, and about to fly off the rails.Because while sometimes he sounds supremely confident, brandishing one…
Why Our Animal Cruelty Laws Must Be Modernized
As you know I hate bullies with a passion. Especially those who bully children and seniors, and those who are cruel to animals.So it troubles me that although Canada likes…
Lisa keeps saying she’s just going to “power through it like HRC”
@lisakinsella & me got something from toiling at @HillaryClinton's campaign HQ: colds. If @realDonaldTrump mocks our stamina, we're winning! — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) October 7, 2016
Sweat Equity – new ISER book on housing policy #nlpoli
Sweat Equity Cooperative House-Building in Newfoundland, 1920–1974 C.A.Sharpe and A.J Shawyer “The lack of decent urban housing — a problem neither new nor unique to Newfoundland — was widely recognized…