What gets us into trouble is not what we don’t know. It’s what we know for sure that just ain’t so
Mark Twain
James C Morton
Happy Fathers’ Day
Regardless of whether a retro-Dad (as right) or a crushingly progressive radical, to all Fathers everywhere — Happy Fathers’ Day!!!
Iqaluit
Nanuq It’s not terribly warm in Iqaluit. The snow is gone from the City, and the roads are the customary summer dust, but the wind is still chill. Frobisher Bay…
Chief Justice Rebecca White Berch
Last week I had the privilege of meeting the Chief Justice of the Arizona Supreme Court — it was part of an ABA review. She is a remarkable individual, highly…
Not something you see much in Nunavut…
But it is cold
Andrew Coyne is right and wrong
Here's part of what he says in today's column: "The more natural modern coalition, it seems to me, is between economic liberals (in the European sense) and social liberals; between…
Government by judges
Judges are amiable people. They make good golf partners and interesting dinner guests. As a group they are well educated, intelligent and polite. But they are not legislators and are…
B.C. Supreme Court strikes down ban on doctor-assisted suicide
VANCOUVER—The B.C. Supreme Court has ruled that a terminally ill woman is allowed to have a doctor-assisted suicide. Story here The stunning decision Friday gives Gloria Taylor, a 64-year-old woman…
Reasonableness review
Halifax (Regional Municipality) v. Canada (Public Works and Government Services, 2012 SCC 29, released a few moments ago, has a good summary of the law regarding the standard of reasonableness review:…
Principled approach to hearsay and reliability
R v Gardipy, 2012 SKCA 58 is a recent Saskatchewan decision with a helpful summary of the reliability indicia for the principled approach to the hearsay rule: Sean’s statement clearly…
Remember Tommy Douglas was an Ordained Minister
A ‘criminal’s’ mug shot — King was more than just words People of faith perform corporal works of mercy. Remember that next time someone suggests otherwise — people of faith…
Three dead after shooting at the University of Alberta
Sounds like a robbery gone bad: http://www.edmontonjournal.com/touch/story.html?id=6786020 Three employees of an armoured vehicle company were shot and killed at the University of Alberta early Friday morning, Edmonton police confirm. A…
Statement By Premier McGuinty On The 2012 Budget
This is real. We may be moving into a Provincial election: Today Premier Dalton McGuinty released the following statement: "For months, Ontario's MPPs have had before them a budget that…
BlackBerry maker Research in Motion is giving Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis a $12 million golden parachute
I know I know, we must never complain about the way capitalism distributes wealth because the market is always right… A company filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission…
Musings on the Dr. Dawg case
“Nonetheless, although the respondents come close to asserting – but do not quite assert – that “anything goes” in these types of exchanges, is that the case in law? Do…
Dr Dawg wins on appeal
Baglow v. Smith, 2012 ONCA 407 was just released. It suggests that summary judgment is not appropriate in an internet defamation case largely because such needs a factual basis impossible to have on…