Isn’t It Time To Ask What’s Wrong With Donald Trump?
You can see the fear in Donald Trump's piggy eyes. You can smell his desperation.After somebody shot some Republican congressmen, he tried so hard to look and sound like a…
2017
Lament for Liberalism.
This is not Diogenes searching for honesty. It is just a poor liberal searching in vain for the true meaning of liberalism. Has liberalism eluded us all? Is liberalism just…
WCAI Islamophobic "Mega" Rally May Have Been Self-Quelled
An alternative title for this article could be "Everyone I Don't Agree With Is Funded By George Soros." In one week, the MASSIVE and GAME CHANGING rally MEGA RALLY is…
Environmentalist Tzeporah Berman, who gave as good as she got, leaves Alberta oilsands advisory role
PHOTOS: Former Oil Sands Advisory Group member Tzeporah Berman. Below: Alberta Premier Rachel Notley, Progressive Conservative Legislative Caucus Leader Ric McIver, and Environment Minister Shannon Phillips. Tzeporah Berman, the high-profile…
Musical interlude
Queens of the Stone Age – The Way You Used to Do
The Birth of Canada’s Armed, Anti-Islamic ‘Patriot’ Group (repost)
In front of Calgary City Hall a couple dozen of them stood, shoulder-to-shoulder, in an attempt to make an unbreakable human wall. Each of them wore a uniform consisting of…
What, Engines Fail?
A brand, spanking new oil tanker has grounded in sand near Cornwall in the St. Lawrence. Fortunately the weather is clear and the waters of the St. Lawrence are placid…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Wanda Wyporska writes about the scandal of growing inequality and the separation of the ultra-rich from the rest of society. And Richard Reeves…
Expert Evidence
Bruff-Murphy v. Gunawardena, 2017 ONCA 502: In White Burgess, a decision released shortly before the judgment under appeal, the Supreme Court of Canada provided clarity and guidance regarding challenges to…
Expert Evidence
Bruff-Murphy v. Gunawardena, 2017 ONCA 502: In White Burgess, a decision released shortly before the judgment under appeal, the Supreme Court of Canada provided clarity and guidance regarding challenges to…
New SFH web site!
Now available for public viewing and your punk rock edification. Right here, maaaaan.
Supreme Court Doubles Down on Jordan
R. v. Cody, 2017 SCC 31: Constitutional law — Charter of Rights — Right to be tried within a reasonable time — Pre‑Jordan delay of more than five years between…
Supreme Court Doubles Down on Jordan
R. v. Cody, 2017 SCC 31: Constitutional law — Charter of Rights — Right to be tried within a reasonable time — Pre‑Jordan delay of more than five years between…
Paul Adam and Wise Law Office Featured on Lawyer’s Daily
BY PAUL B. ADAM Last week, an interesting Ontario Court of Appeal case that I recently argued, Floward Enterprises v Winberg Estate 2017 ONCA 448, was featured on Lawyer’s Daily.…
He Can Talk The Talk
But his sandal-clad feet cannot walk the walk. After the disastrous tenure of Paul Wells as national political affairs commentator, it was a real pleasure to see that The Toronto…
LGBT Rights and the Trudeau Legacy
After fighting for years for their human rights, and having to endure the most disgusting discrimination and violence, this was a good week for transgendered Canadians.A few days ago at…
His Waterloo?
Justin Trudeau is still riding high in the polls. But Michael Harris suggests that B.C. could turn out to be his Waterloo: Trudeau’s most immediate practical challenge to his feel-good,…
Accident victims 1, greedy trial lawyers 0
This is a huge decision, with historic implications. For usurious trial lawyers, it is an unmitigated disaster: they now face the realistic prospect of class action lawsuits by clients they…
Exorcising the errata of ego.
There can be no excuse for slovenly writing. There is that rude awakening when your e-mails include comments on your careless errors. Some days you get more than others. One…
A Referral for a Referral for a Referral
I’m curious: what must have happened to provoke the powers that be to make the health care system so inanely bureaucratic that wait times for life-saving surgeries are dramatically increased…