Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Thursday, August 15, 2013: Harassed employee’s work refusal illegal: court Bradley Manning apologizes for hurting U.S California Supreme…
…that’s how many followers I now have on Twitter. Just noticed. Justin Trudeau, watch out! I’m in your social media rear view mirror, pal!
While I periodically enjoy making sport of what I sometimes refer to as crazy old evangelicals (a distinction I make out of respect to the sincere and well-intentioned ones) and…
The bill for Stephen Harper’s Wonderful World of Austerity is coming due. Nick Fillmore writes in The Tyee: The austerity program and other government cuts have had disastrous consequences for…
I have written a bit about the use of professional sports as a vehicle for war propaganda and militarism, such as when the Harper Government used the Olympic torch relay…
They call it Site C. No, it isn’t a sequel to Jurassic Park or The Lost World. Site C is a 900 megawatt hydroelectric dam project in British Columbia that…
The chap from Blast Furnace Canada has a carefully reasoned take on what’s at issue with the “Line 9 Reversal”–the plan to bring diluted bitumen from Alta/Sask’s tar-sands to refineries…
Last Sunday, a large group of family, friends and associates gathered and paid tribute to Pierre Lemaitre, an officer who once was the RCMP’s senior media relations officer in British…
*Goosebumps* I got goosebumps up the back of my head when he played Hey Jude. Crash. A music legend played in the Queen City for the first time, and seemed…
They don't dare admit it of course, but there's one thing everyone who has worked in the PMO would say if they could be sure of being accepted into the…
There are two different ways voters can be represented in a democracy: by person and by party. This is the main reason there are many different voting systems. Definition: Seat/Riding:…
The scene: a Starbucks, at Yonge and St. Clair. The players: Kevin Donovan, the lead investigative reporter at the Toronto Star, and James Lockyer, the founding director of the Association…
Travel Alberta is not pleased with Andy Cobb and Mike Damanskis, two L.A.-based comedians raising funds to travel to the province’s tar sands, the world’s largest industrial project. Today, Travel…
br />Proud to have been a longhair when it mattered!
Historian and author Jeremy Brecher argues that activists who engage in acts of civil disobedience and risk arrest are upholding the law, not violating it. The post Civil disobedience as…
I have yet to see anything that so sublimely and elegantly shows how mankind and nature can cohabit this planet, yet we continue to lay a massive pounding on the…
Over at his blog (where he has conveniently turned off comments), we find Walt Heyer madly scribing away, and getting it horribly wrong. He refers to three cases of what…
In a follow-up to the previous entry I’m posting a Democracy Now interview with Lavabit owner and operator Ladar Levison. Levison made the difficult decision to shut down the encrypted…
By Henry Blodget,Financial Post “One of the big reasons the U.S. economy is so lousy is the American companies are hoarding cash and ‘maximizing profits’ instead of investing in their…
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