Increase in Ontario Civil Filing Fees
BY RACHEL SPENCE AND LARA FRIEDMAN As of November 6, 2016, Ontario civil and small claims courts have increased their fees, the new amounts can be found here. This will…
November 2016
2wice More Justin Trudeau Goes Anti-Feminist
It’s great that Trudeau wants to give Liberia $12 million to improve the condition of women, but in Canada he’s undermining the economic security of Canadian women and others, including…
T-Shirts for Standing Rock
SUPPORT THE WATER PROTECTORS! SOLIDARITY AGAINST COLONIAL TERROR! Until further notice, from this point on all proceeds from t-shirt sales purchased through this link (https://www.leftwingbooks.net/tshirt/t-shirts-standing-rock) will be donated to support…
Anti-fascists plan to protest black metal concert in Montreal on Saturday (repost)
Graveland, from Poland, is expected to perform. In 2008, Germany outlawed the sale of four of Graveland’s albums as “unsafe for youth.” Graveland Read the rest of this post on…
Shut Down Milo: No Fascists On Campus (repost)
Milo Yiannopoulos is on a speaking tour of universities throughout the US, including major universities in the Mid-West & West Coast. Read the rest of this post on the original…
Riseup’s Canary Has Died (repost)
Popular provider of web tools for activists and anarchists and backbone of much infrastructure for internet freedom, Riseup.net has almost certainly been issued a gag order by the US government.…
Kersplebedeb Pop-Up Book Sale at Concordia
Monday November 28, 10 AM – 6 PM Concordia University – Hall Building (1455, boulevard de Maisonneuve Ouest) 2nd Floor at the Kiosk just outside The Hive cafe Looking for…
Litigation Privilege – the SCC speaks
Lizotte v. Aviva Insurance Company of Canada, 2016 SCC 52: Litigation privilege is a common law rule that gives rise to an immunity from disclosure for documents and communications whose…
Dividing and Equalizing Marital Property in Ontario
BY SIMRAN BAKSHI, ASSOCIATE LAWYERThe process behind “consciously uncoupling” can be overwhelming, particularly when it comes to the division and equalization of family property.Perhaps the most common point of frustration…
It’s Later Than We Think
The news on climate change is not good — and it’s getting worse. The mainstream media are beginning to get the message. Ole Hendrickson writes: The headline of a recent…
It’s Forum. But, holy crap. Also, change chosen.
So: Approval of Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne and her government is so low the Progressive Conservatives are in supermajority territory, a new poll shows. The Tories would snap up 70…
Waiting for your train.
Ontario’s MetroLinx people came to Barrie the other day to talk about planning for the future of the GO Train commuter line to Toronto. The good news is that it…
Pierre Poilievre and the Death of the Unfair Elections Act
In all the nightmare years of Harperland, it was one of the foulest bills the Con regime ever rammed through parliament.Pierre Poilievre's Orwellian named Fair Elections Act, which he claimed…
Fractured Fairy Tales: Jerry Earle edition #nlpoli
Via VOCM, the reaction of NAPE boss Jerry Earle to a study that showed the provincial government is overloaded with provincial public servants compared to the situation in other provinces:…
Robo-gaffe: What do you do when caller-ID says it’s a PC on the line and you get the NDP?
PHOTOS: The offending caller ID message (photo found on Twitter). Below: Edmonton-Castle Downs NDP MLA Nicole Goehring, former Edmonton-Castle Downs Progressive Conservative MLA Thomas Lukaszuk and NDP Caucus Outreach Director…
Notley owes Alberta’s coal communities an in-person visit
Mr. Jean: Thank you. The NDP has found time to fly to Paris, to Morocco, but they haven’t found time to visit communities like Hanna and Parkland county. They haven’t…
NDP Pledge to End B.C.’s Grizzly Bear Trophy Hunt if Elected
Grizzly bear trophy hunting will be banned, for both resident and foreign hunters, if the NDP form the next provincial government, leader John Horgan promised Thursday. The NDP is walking…
NDP Pledge to End B.C.’s Grizzly Bear Trophy Hunt if Elected
Grizzly bear trophy hunting will be banned, for both resident and foreign hunters, if the NDP form the next provincial government, leader John Horgan promised Thursday. The NDP is walking…
On advance opportunities
And now, time to give credit to the Saskatchewan Party where it’s due. Some people are justifiably anticipating that thanks to Donald Trump, self-dealing will be the word of the…
New column day
Here, on how the Wall government has Saskatchewan on the road to the same post-truth politics that laid the groundwork for the spread of fictitious “news” and Donald Trump’s election.…