About Those Weapons We’re Selling to Saudi Arabia
The Trudeau government has no intention of axing the deal negotiated by the Harper regime to flog $15-billion worth of armoured fighting vehicles to Saudi Arabia. The government won't explain…
2016
Ex turpi doctrine does not shield auditor from claim for not uncovering fraud by corporate management brought by corporation seeking recovery
Livent Inc. v. Deloitte & Touche, 2016 ONCA 11: The trial judge quoted with approval, at para. 272, Lord Mance's observation, made at para. 241 of Stone & Rolls in…
Musical interlude
Gorgon City feat. MNEK - Ready For Your Love
Peter Nix’s solar farm near Maple Bay – a model for community owned energy utilities?
In our wonderful hi tech world of efficiency I managed to lose this story from Carbon Buster Peter Nix. However, it is not date specific and worth a read and…
A World Bound to Faith, Not Fact.
We all do it. It's just human nature. We come to see what we experience in our life as normal. We regard the modes in which we're organized as almost…
The Force Awakens: One Big Politically Correct Recycling Machine
The Force Awakens: One Big Politically Correct Recycling Machine Given all-time box office records for The Force Awakens, it’s pretty obvious almost all comic-con and Star Wars fans in particular…
The Force Awakens: One Big Politically Correct Recycling Machine
The Force Awakens: One Big Politically Correct Recycling MachineGiven all-time box office records for The Force Awakens, it’s pretty obvious almost all comic-con and Star Wars fans in particular do…
Jan 8: Justin is turning out as I expected.
“P.M. told to deepen ties to Saudi Arabia.” The advice comes from 'federal officials'. And if we are being told about it, it's a safe bet it's because we're being…
The Force Awakens: One Big Politically Correct Recycling Machine
The Force Awakens: One Big Politically Correct Recycling MachineGiven all-time box office records for The Force Awakens, it’s pretty obvious almost all comic-con and Star Wars fans in particular do…
Valuable First Nations Historic Sites "Will Be Gone Forever" if Site C Dam Proceeds: Archaeologist
One of the archaeologists who excavated the Rocky Mountain Fort site in the 1980s says much remains to be discovered about historical First Nations encampments near the site and valuable…
Home care: the debate the government wants to avoid
Ontario’s malfunctioning home and community care system is a prime example of why private sector companies should not deliver health care. They don’t do as good a job as the…
Conservatives love to make fun of Justin Trudeau’s CV
After watching the video embedded in the tweet below, however, one thing conservatives used make fun of – in particular – should perhaps be accorded a bit more respect. It…
We get letters: this one isn’t from Ezra, by the way
It’s from someone who is claiming to be him – and Ezra doesn’t ever swear, in my experience, and we have now put aside several decades of, er, disagreements. That…
Who?
He’s my ex-partner’s son by another man. What is the word for that? Phil Daoust Guardian ‘With more than 40% of marriages ending in divorce … along with the…
Ought and Is
Experts are typically expert in two types of things:what is the casewhat ought to be the caseAnd for that matter, we all have attitudes and beliefs regarding both types of…
Who By Fire
I’ve been reading a biography of Leonard Cohen, recently: the 2012 I’m Your Man, by Sylvie Simmons. It’s an interesting journey through the life and thoughts of an exquisite artist…
Britain’s Double Whammy Barreling Toward the UK
How do you cap off weeks of devastating flooding? How about a blast of Arctic air that'll bring you your coldest winter in 58-years? That's exactly what's heading for Britain…
Ought and Is
Experts are typically expert in two types of things:what is the casewhat ought to be the caseAnd for that matter, we all have attitudes and beliefs regarding both types of…
Government Secrecy Returns
Having lived for almost 10 years under a cone of silence and secrecy, Canadians can be forgiven for expecting more openness from the Trudeau government. That expectation appears to be…
Justin Trudeau and the De-Harperization of Canada
He has only been in power for eighty days, but already Justin Trudeau is being caught between the right and the left.Between the Cons who are enraged at the way…