R. v. J.S.W., 2013 ONCA 593 deals with silence or a failure categorically to deny an allegation – can that be taken as either agreement or at least a weakness…
Another Harper loyalist is in trouble for claiming expenses she wasn’t entitled to. Is there anyone in there who isn’t?? Also, no one believes it was a mistake, either.
It is the risk of appearing academic or pedantic (book-smart) that usually precludes any discussion of what liberalism is all about. It reminds us of an old friend—a law professor…
I’m prepared to believe that when Tony Clement eliminated the manadatory long census form prior to the 2011 census, he didn’t actually intend to make rural communities in the western…
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Tuesday, October 1, 2013: Maple Lodge Farms guilty of criminal charges after hens freeze to death Tax evasion…
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Jordon Cooper writes about the need to understand poverty in order to discuss and address it as a matter of public policy.…
Reblogged from Poumista: The Daily Mail has been in the news for its attacks on Ralph Miliband as “the man who hated Britain“. This continues a long tradition of smearing…
“This is a case where the wheels are literally falling off the bus.” – Andre Marin, Toronto Star, July 16, 2013 Back in June 2011 the Ontario government promised legislation…
Norway’s disturbing lurch to the right | Alf Gunvald Nilsen | Comment is free | theguardian.com. The results from today’s Norwegian elections are more or less clear: with some 26.8%…
It has been clear for some time now that the Republican Party is The Stupid Party. But with today’s shut down of the federal government, the Republicans have earned the…
As of this writing, I will have published 253 posts since I began this blog at the ending week of December, 2011. Two hundred and fifty three posts in 21…
So not the same thing. If the party releases the numbers, we’ll know the actual number of people who have signed up to vote in the Liberal leadership once the…
1. Agreeing to be chaperone to dozens of grade sevens and eights in New York City for a week. 2. Doing so starting on the very morning the entire US…
Our favourite Miliband | Red Pepper. Our favourite Miliband Hilary Wainwright reveals which Miliband caught her fancy August 2010 I’d better come clean. For some time now I’ve been a…
Well yank my doodle dandy. One more good reason why right-wingers should never be allowed anywhere near a democracy. In Canada they've closed down Parliament, in the United States they've…
Reblogged from Greek Left Review: With the arrest of several party leaders the Greek government has begun a crackdown on the far-right Golden Dawn in the wake of the murder…
The Windsor Star has a story about how declining enrollment a in local secular and Catholic school boards (both publicly funded) are forcing creative solutions as funding declines. It sharply…
I’ve been giving a lot of thought on what to talk next about on the blog, and with news of the Saskatchewan Party’s newest round of attack ads, I thought…
I've been giving a lot of thought on what to talk next about on the blog, and with news of the Saskatchewan Party's newest round of attack ads, I thought…
