Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Dani Rodrik argues that it’s too late to try to compensate the people being deliberately left behind by trade deals – and that…
April 2017
Expert Panel report on environmental assessment review – an overview
Wednesday, April 12, 2017 On April 5th, the federal government released the report of its Expert Panel that has been reviewing Canada’s environmental assessment (EA) processes. The report, Building Common…
Still More Hawaiian Sights
The 3rd day of driving, we headed toward the old Dole Plantation. After climbing a hill on the freeway, the Leaf’s battery was a little depleted especially since we started…
D.C.‘s war madness
Illustration by Greg Groesch The past week has been an immensely clarifying — and profoundly demoralizing — one in American politics. It has demonstrated beyond a shadow of a doubt…
Review: I Am Not Your Negro
I Am Not Your Negro Raoul Peck Velvet Films, 2016 Now and then, and despite its capitalist and racial biases, our culture throws up something that can speak quite eloquently…
87% of B.C. Grizzly Deaths Due to Trophy Hunting, Records Reveal
Eighty-seven per cent of grizzly bear deaths in B.C. are attributable to trophy hunters, who have killed 12,026 grizzly bears since the government began keeping records in 1975, according to…
‘Nothing Has Changed’: B.C.’s Botched Oil Spill Response Haunts First Nation
On October 13, just after 1 a.m, and only eight months after British Columbia signed the Great Bear Rainforest Agreements — set in place to protect the world’s largest coastal…
Climate in the 2017 BC Election
Wednesday, April 12, 2017 In an earlier post we compared the BC Liberal and BC NDP Climate plans in advance of the upcoming election. Now that the BC Green Party…
City councillor targeted with anti-gay hate
And just look at the return address, Frank Addario: it’s your neo-Nazi client’s address. Must be a coincidence. Today I received new homophobic hate mail on #DayofPink. #irony #stopbullyingnow #lovetrumpshate…
BC election: I love good war room stuff
Heh. Guess who made an appearance at @jjhorgan campaign announcement for @bcndp? #bcelxn17 #bcpoli pic.twitter.com/toEWNEqPue — Taran Parmar (@Taranparmar983) April 12, 2017
Damages for bad faith in terminating a partnership
Tim Ludwig Professional Corporation v. BDO Canada LLP, 2017 ONCA 292: Keays holds that, because employers have an implied contractual obligation of good faith in the manner of dismissal, dama...
Damages for bad faith in terminating a partnership
Tim Ludwig Professional Corporation v. BDO Canada LLP, 2017 ONCA 292: Keays holds that, because employers have an implied contractual obligation of good faith in the manner of dismissal, damages…
Nuclear Korea and Donald Trump
To begin, if you know someone who is currently working in South Korea, you may want to prepare their return home or at the very least…ensure they renegotiate any contract…
A Bigger Problem with Air Travel
It was almost four years ago that Nature, a highly reputable peer-reviewed science journal, published a paper that suggests that climate change is going to affect us sooner rather than…
LawFact of the Day: Family Law
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Wednesday April 12, 2017. Today we are talking about Family Law. The Child Support Guideline Table Look-up is a free tool…
A Sad State Of Affairs
While the fallout of United Airlines’ (“Fly the friendly skies of United”) forcible removal of a paying customer from an overbooked flight continues to reverberate, the ugly incident is reminding…
Parroting The American Line
Chrystia Freeland said this week that it was time for Vladimir Putin to end his support for Bashar al-Assad. Lawrence Martin writes that Freeland’s demand will fall on deaf ears.…
Opposing hate: an invitation
Got an email and a letter: For the uninitiated, Your Ward News is a neo-Nazi rag a few of us have been fighting for many months. Details here and here…
Cancer Survival Rates Higher Thanks to Years of Progress
Science is awesome! Over the last few decades survival rates of leukemia have increased thanks to research into how cancer functions and how to stop it. Cancer is incredibly hard…
Morning Line: B.C. Provincial Election – May 2017.
This morning line is not up to our usual standards. We simply lack the complete information needed to assess the public mood. All we can do is provide a baseline…