Jacquie Menezes – Oshawa Candidate
In her Oshawa campaign office: Jacquie Menezes is a lifelong advocate for social justice and economic development. She has a B.Sc. in Agricultural Marketing, Economics and Bioscience from the University…
James C Morton
Farmers vote to maintain wheat board’s monopoly
The Board amounts to a Union for farmers -- dismantling the Board in the face of this vote is suggestive of what may be the future of Federally regulated Unions?http://www.thestar.com/business/article/1052342--farmers-vote-to-maintain-wheat-board-s-mon...
"When did we become for immigrants?"
I don't think that Tim Hudak, or his Party as a whole, is against new Canadians but gosh they do not seem to be able to control some of their…
"There’s been a plane crash in New York"
Someone at my office said that and then said "a plane hit the World Trade Center". I assumed some sightseeing plane flew too close and clipped the building. As I…
Donec eris felix, multos numerabis amicos: Tempora si fuerint nubila, solus eris
- As long as you are fortunate, you will have many friends: if clouds appear, you will be alone (Ovid)
Services en français menacés sous Hudak
Si des ressources sont réduites des services linguistiques français seront réduits. M. Hudak dit qu'il réduira dépenser et cela mènera aux services réduits. La capacité d'employer le français sera p...
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Bill the bear
The taxman cometh… to seize a PC Candidate’s home for not paying Stephen Harper’s taxes…
Ok, a bit harsh but still. Hillier took out a well-respected and long term Conservative -- the least he could have done is given a head's up he had a…
The 9/11 decade
http://bit.ly/nEKt89 "While there are a lot of things a government might do, there are a few things that only a government can do: protect the people, rescue them when they…
First impaired driving
September 10th, 1897, a 25-year-old London taxi driver named George Smithbecomes the first person ever arrested for drunk driving after slamming his cabinto a building. Smith later pled guilty and…
Ignoranti, quem portum petat, nullus suus ventus est
No wind is favorable to someone who does not know where they are sailing (Seneca). That's a rather loose translation -- I'll take the blame or credit for it --…
Is the failure to object to evidence fatal to an appeal based on admission? Perhaps not
R. v. Jones, 2011 ONCA 584 deals with, among other things, a failure to object at trial and whether the Court on appeal can intervene in the absence of an…
Alberta’s ‘Supporters’ — a good idea and here’s why
Over the last couple of weeks I have been stuffing and mailing envelopes for Federal Liberal Riding fund-raising. It's not exactly glamorous work but it needs doing. But I notice…
Obama’s jobs speech
It wasn't a bad speech and it's not a bad plan; but somehow it feels a bit 'same old same old'. Put otherwise, if it hasn't worked before why should…
Bruno Balz
A noted German music writer he spent considerable time during the war under arrest or surveillance by the Gestapo; he was homosexual. He was repeatedly tortured in the Gestapo headquarters…
Reformatory proper range of sentence for possession of "small" amount of cocaine for trafficking
R. v. Speziale, 2011 ONCA 580 is a clear statement of the appropriate range for possession of a 'small' amount of cocaine for trafficking. 'Small' is not a definite quantity but certainly is…
Voluntary severance for police
It's a curious position, no layoffs but cut staff costs -- but with police morale as low as it is I bet plenty of police will take a package. Here's…