Focus on What Really Matters Most
Our government has many priorities. The prime minister has said that he wants to be known, first and foremost, as a free trader. He’s all about increasing trade, maximizing growth…
2016
Vocabulary’s got nothin’ to do with it
Content Notice: Victim blaming, trans-antagonism, reclamation of t-word slur Perhaps it was good fortune that I caught a bug and started drowning in my lungs. I recognized earlier this week…
For What It’s Worth
Unfortunately, bias and prejudice are an ingrained part of human nature, and as much as we might wish to deny it, there are demons that reside in all of us.…
It’s Pedal to the Metal for Arctic Climate Change
You wouldn’t know it by the goingson in Ottawa or any provincial capital but, since October, climate scientists have been declaring an “emergency” in the Arctic. The Liberal government apparently…
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…
Why It’s Not Too Late to Stop the Site C Dam
“Hydro’s demand forecasts are persistently and systematically wrong. There is no reason to believe that much new power, if any, will be required in the next 20 to 30 years.…
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…
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…