Climate Change Fun Fact of the Week – the Rise of Brain-Eating Bugs
Okay, it’s not like it’s an epidemic but, just sayin’. Our warming climate is manifesting in the northern migration of all manner of lifeforms – mammals, fish, birds, insects and…
Warren Buffett Buys Over $500 Million of Suncor Tar Sands Stock, Latest in "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap"
Warren Buffett – the fourth richest man on the planet and major campaign contributor to President Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012 – may soon get a whole lot richer.…
A pox on (some of) your houses
Recently, numerous allegations have flown throughout the blogosphere (at least, the portion that I read), identifying numerous high-profile skeptics/atheists/scientists as varying degrees of creepy to rapist. Others have jumped to…
More On The Struggle Of Minimum Wage Workers
We hear it all the time from those who slavishly and unconscionably parrot the corporate line: raising the minimum wage is a job-killer. While that rhetoric may serve the insatiable…
New Contest – Your Favourite Tory in Marjorie’s Wig
Any guesses what former Conservative senate leader Marjorie Lebreton plans to do with her 30s-something hairpiece when she leaves politics? Maybe it should be bequeathed to the public archives. Or…
Mistake in contract
Lee v. 1435375 Ontario Ltd., 2013 ONCA 516: The formation of a legally binding contract requires a meeting of the minds –consensus ad idem. When the meeting of the minds…
Egypt Doesn’t Need Pharaohs, It Has Generals
Fascism and the will of the majority often go hand in hand. Mussolini’s Italy and Hitler’s Germany are the best examples. The fascists may not rise to power on majority…
The Rot Starts At The Top
Regular readers of this space will know that I am no fan of Prime Minister Harper. Yesterday’s revelation that a “boot camp” for new Conservative Senators explicitly told the new…
The Provincial Offences Court, and the Ontario Court of Justice to which appeals go from that court, are the face of justice to many citizens
R. v. Massara, 2013 ONCA 519: Mr. Massara takes issue with the fairness of the proceeding on the motion before the appeal court judge and with the disposition. The Provincial…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Alison Bennett reports on the OECD’s work on offshore tax avoidance, highlighting the “stateless income” that’s shuffled around the globe so as to…
Galileo at the Uffizzi
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Premier David Alward’s ad. promoting Alberta oil pipeline
That should make Alberta happy. New Brunswickers? I don’t know. I saw the ad last night and I was taken aback. I knew he supported the pipeline but to give…
On Solar Panels
By request – how well does using solar panels work? Well, it’s hard to say. I covered my roof with panels under the Ontario MicroFIT (Feed-in Tariff) program that ends…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Friday, August 16, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Friday, August 16, 2013: NSA broke privacy rules thousands of times per year, audit finds (Washington Post) Romanian…
#yegvote Google Hangout #3 with ActivatED
Tweet On last night’s #yegvote Google Hangout, the third in our series, Ryan Hastman, Mack Male, and I were joined by Aliza Dadani from the group ActivatED. According to their…
Study Finds Utility Decoupling is Gaining Traction
This is a guest post by Clint Robertson. A new study found that 25 states had adopted revenue decoupling for at least one natural gas or electric utility by December…
Settling the Senate problem is only a start.
Reading the rambling discourses of the pundits, you would think that the current outcry against the Senate is easy to solve by simply abolishing the place. If it was that…
Review: Dirty Wars
Though the word “Canada” appears only a handful of times in the book and is not even in the index, this is a book about Canada’s wars in the last…
Piffle About Taxes
Four years ago, Stephen Harper declared: “I don’t believe that any taxes are good taxes.” We’ve come to expect that kind of piffle from the prime minister. But, Devon Black…