Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- In the wake of yesterday's Brexit vote, David Dayen points out how the failure of technocratic policy left many voters believing they had nothing…
2016
Supreme Court holds tribunal finding is entitled to deference
British Columbia (Workers' Compensation Appeal Tribunal) v. Fraser Health Authority, 2016 SCC 25:The standard of review applicable to a tribunal's original decision requires curial deference, absent a finding of fact…
Supreme Court holds tribunal finding is entitled to deference
British Columbia (Workers' Compensation Appeal Tribunal) v. Fraser Health Authority, 2016 SCC 25:The standard of review applicable to a tribunal's original decision requires curial deference, absent a finding of fact…
Brexit implications. . . .
Watching England vote to leave the European Union is a strange experience. It is one of those events which leave you dazed and confused but which may, a few years…
Britex implications. . . .
Watching England vote to leave the European Union is a strange experience. It is one of those events which leave you dazed and confused but which may, a few years…
LawFact of the Day: Employment Law
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Friday June 24, 2016. Today we are talking about Employment Law.A video posted by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on Jun 24,…
Review: A Labour of Liberation
This is the first book that I’ve read from Changing Suns Press, a new independent publisher with anti-authoritarian politics based in Regina, Saskatchewan. When they were crowdfunding for their start-up…
Review: A Labour of Liberation
This is the first book that I've read from Changing Suns Press, a new independent publisher with anti-authoritarian politics based in Regina, Saskatchewan. When...
Review: A Labour of Liberation
This is the first book that I've read from Changing Suns Press, a new independent publisher with anti-authoritarian politics based in Regina, Saskatchewan. When...
Brexit
One day a new political party will form in Canada – let’s call it the Union party – pledging to put the country to a referendum on whether to join…
Brexit
One day a new political party will form in Canada - let's call it the Union party - pledging to put the country to a referendum on whether to join…
Brexit
One day a new political party will form in Canada - let's call it the Union party - pledging to put the country to a referendum on whether to join…
Our Unfathomable Equanimity
While the world convulses and gyrates over the results of the Brexit vote, I can't help but wonder why not even a scintilla of that passion can be brought to…
On curiously confused commentary.
Not being a regular reader of the right-wing National Post, we are not as familiar with commentator John Ivison. He appears to be a believer in conspiracy theories. In his…
The Con Media and the Cult of Jason Kenney
As you may remember, when I last dropped in on the ghastly Con Jason Kenney he was busy consulting his shiny crystal ball.And trying to decide whether to run for…
Winners: racists and the economically illiterate. Losers: everyone else.
WINNERS Racists, nativists and isolationists: There is a reason why Trump, Le Pen and their ilk favoured a “leave” vote: their prospects are always improved when people are divided…
The National Observer: PostMedia Pawn?
What happened National Observer? Why are you on the wrong side of Canada's great media debate?
For Good Or Ill
Britain is out. Yesterday was momentous and there is no telling what the consequences will be. But, Andrew Nikiforuk writes, yesterday had everything to do with what he calls, "the…
South Australia’s Renewable Energy Progress Sets An Example For The World
First-time visitors to Australia are often drawn to the big city attractions of Sydney and Melbourne or the fabulous beaches of Queensland’s Gold Coast. I’ve always had a soft spot…