140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of September 26, 2016
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on TwitterA video posted by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on Sep 26, 2016 at 7:15am PDTIs 51 Too Old To Be…
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Open Letter to NDP re: their support for White Helmets Nobel Peace Prize
Screenshot from Netflix promotional documentary Dear Mr. Cullen, Since it was you who made the public presentation regarding the NDP’s position on this matter, I am writing directly to you…
Standing Rock Stakes Claim for Sovereignty
Photo by Tony Webster Mainstream media would have most of us believe that the current struggle at Standing Rock, North Dakota is all about clean water – that its only…
Jim Naylor: The Fate of Labour Socialism
Image from Public Domain The following is excerpted from the University of Toronto Press Almost a century before the New Democratic Party rode the first “orange wave,” their predecessors imagined…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Owen Jones offers his take on how the UK's Labour Party should proceed following Jeremy Corbyn's most recent leadership victory - and while the…
Dilbert, Dogbert and Collingwood
I’ve often commented that the cartoon strip Dilbert, by Scott Adams, is closer to a documentary than it is to a cartoon. Not just about the quagmire of corporate life:…
Ottawa, A D — After Duffy
Last week, two of the movers and shakers in the Prime Minister's Office announced that they were giving back part of the money they had received to move from Toronto…
Oh, what wimps these Liberals be!
This would have run sooner if we had not written the weekend’s commentaries earlier last week. Have these Liberals learned nothing from watching former Prime Minister Harper over the years?…
Kellie Leitch’s Campaign Becomes Even More Absurd
I wasn't planning to write another post about Kellie Leitch for a while, because I feel I've written enough about her to last me a lifetime.But then I saw the…
John Laschinger is a nice veteran campaigner
…but he’s kind of full of crap. Just saw a lonely copy of his new book in Indigo. I won’t bore you with all the details – it’s long ago,…
Illegal deletions okay in NL: access commissioner #nlpoli
Shortly after he took office a month or so ago, newly appointed information commissioner Donovan Molloy told CBC there had been a "substantial increase" in the number of access to…
Should the Ethics and Accountability Committee be given a second chance?
Partisan wrangling, maneuvering and infighting appears to have derailed much of the work assigned to the Special Select Ethics and Accountability Committee by the time MLAs on the all-party committee…
It can’t help the oil-well drillers’ campaign that ‘Bernard the Roughneck’ appeared in 2014 theatrical production
PHOTOS: Neal Hancock, nowadays better known as Bernard the Roughneck, with his co-star in a 2014 theatrical production in Quebec’s Eastern Townships. The play was about a boot-maker who had…
My take on the debates
In today’s Sun: • Warren Kinsella (Daisy Consulting Group) “I think Trump has the advantage. “He was created by TV, and made famous by TV. He understands TV better than…
Air Horn Politics
“We’re all seriously suffering from a kind of Trump derangement syndrome…he uses up so much of the oxygen and it’s like having…a big air horn installed in your head and…
Canada detains children
This is extraordinary and horrifying. I am astonished by this. If you object to Canada placing children, inter alia, in solitary confinement, contact your Member of Parliament here. And contact…
Sunday Morning Links
Assorted content for your Sunday reading.- Tim Harford discusses how insurance and other industries are built on exploiting people who are risk-averse due to the inability to absorb substantial costs…