Top 10 Legal headlines for the Week of August 14, 2017
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August 2017
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Angella MacEwen and Cole Eisen challenge Galen Weston’s laughable claim that he and his multi-billion-dollar empire can’t afford to pay something closer to…
140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of August 14, 2017
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of August 14, 2017 from Wise Law on Twitter: Windsor Law professor wins access to justice award Toronto police officers accused…
A Timely Message
Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland continues to treat the Canadian public as children, revealing nothing as to what our country’s goals are in the upcoming NAFTA renegotiations. The only peek…
A Fake American
Sarah Palin used to say that she spoke for “real Americans.” Paul Krugman writes: She meant rural and small-town residents — white residents, it went without saying — who supposedly…
The girl with the pearl earring 1
We arrived early and still stood at the end of the line. If you whip upstairs fast there are only a few people lingering in front. Filed under: art
Save the Peatlands, Save the Planet
When it comes to carbon storage you can’t beat peatlands. They store tons of carbon and clean the air so efficiently that we ought to protect them way better than…
Better Living with Bitumen.
Reading an apologist for Alberta’s tar sands exploiters the other day, we learned that the little town of Hardisty, Alberta is the hub of a North American maze of pipelines.…
This week’s column: he’d be at Charlottesville, but he’s dead
Hell just got a little more crowded. Some might consider that inappropriate – about the dead, nothing but good should be said, per the Yiddish proverb – but, when the…
The Dangerous Cowardice of the Nazi Supporter Donald Trump.
I can only imagine how Donald Trump must be feeling after his depraved and disastrous reaction to that deadly Nazi party in Charlottesville.But I wouldn't be surprised if he's ready…
State Sponsor of (Domestic) Terrorism?
Undercover FBI agent, Michael German, says the Trump White House has empowered white supremacist terrorism. That would make the United States a true, “state sponsor of (domestic) terrorism.
Candidate’s proposal to kick B.C. out of New West Partnership is likely to delight West Coast Dippers
PHOTOS: UCP leadership candidate Doug Schweitzer, grabbed from his campaign website. Below: B.C. NDP Premier John Horgan (Wikimedia Commons), Alberta NDP Premier Rachel Notley, and former WCP president Jeff Callaway.…
Rebel Media becomes a wedge issue in the United Conservative Party leadership race
This weekend’s violent march of Nazis and white supremacists through the streets of Charlotteville, Virginia made international headlines and also had repercussions for the United Conservative Party leadership race in…
Currently Unconfirmed: Truck Strikes Charlottesville Vigil in Montreal
Information is still coming in, but it seems that earlier tonight a truck struck a group of people holding a vigil in remembrance of Heather Heyer who was allegedly killed…
Get your copy of X: Recipe for Hate before any other kid on your block!
Tomorrow is your last chance to enter our @goodreads giveaway for @kinsellawarren's #RecipeforHate! https://t.co/TQ4okX6AKl #ARCgiveaway pic.twitter.com/WA4G0gwDT4 — Dundurn (@dundurnpress) August 13, 2017
Two buildings in Leiden
And not even the nicest part. Filed under: art
Life In Scarborough: Paul Bernardo’s Old Neighborhood
Famed serial killer Paul Bernardo graduated high-school from Sir Wilfred Laurier Collegiate, down in The Guild. Apparently they’ve left the picture of his graduating class (him included) on the wall…
join the ndp and vote for niki ashton: deadline aug 17
The deadline to join the NDP and vote for Niki Ashton is August 17. Last night I saw something that shocked me, and today I did something I’ve never done…
Coverage of Winnipeg’s Rooster Town Blockade Reveals Media’s Anti-Indigenous Biases
Photo by James Wilt Winnipeg’s Rooster Town Blockade has been standing for almost a month now, with Indigenous land defenders and allies successfully blocking a large aspen forest from clearcutting.…
What Was Really on Display Yesterday in Charlottesville
You might have thought Ezra Levant’s Rebel Media would be all over yesterday’s riots in Charlottesville, Virginia. Haven’t heard a word. Can’t find any reaction piece online either. Nothing. We’ve…