Adverse inference properly taken for failure to call witnesses
Stetler v. Stetler, 2013 ONCA 508 approves of an adverse inference made by a trial judge on the basis that witnesses who could have been called were not. This is…
Appeals Of The Ostrander Point Windfarm Decision
There are three of them, which you can read about through the link. The one that most concerns me is: The appeal by MOE could not likely have occurred without…
The New Clone 12000 Helmet Finally Comes to Market
This fully functional metro-wanker-clone helmet will render your enemies helpless with laughter, right before you incinerate their lower intestines. Two Gigilo-Hertz-powered ocular particle beams makes the Clone 12000 more devastating…
Rachel Parent Takes on Kevin O’Leary Over GMO Foods
While I often lament people’s lack of engagement on matters of crucial importance, this very well-informed and articulate 14-year-old, about whom I wrote an earlier brief post, gives me some…
Stephen Harper: The Madness and the Blindness
When future generations of young Canadians are forced by their teachers to study the history of Stephen Harper's years in power, the so-called Great Darkness, one question will probably be…
On bigotry and prejudice #nlpoli
The Telegram editorial last Friday offered a few comments on some recent examples of nasty words tossed at people not from one place or another. One was a letter that…
Newsweek bought by IBT Media, company with relationship to controversial Korean pastor David Jang
The sale of Newsweek to IBT Media, announced Saturday is generating some interest in media and evangelical circles. Christianity Today published an investigative series last year, The Second Coming Christ…
Manning case shows that US government’s priorities are ‘upside down’
The Bradley Manning verdict is about sending the message that “the US government will come after you”, says Amnesty International’s Senior Director of International Law and Policy Widney Brown. The…
Powerful pro-CBC advertisement
I saw this ad on TV tonight, can’t remember which channel — its the ad that CBC itself wouldn’t run: Powerful stuff, with a bit of humour at the end,…
As Keystone XL Falters, TransCanada OKs Bigger Canada East Coast Pipeline
As Keystone XL falters, TransCanada introduces Energy East, a $12 billion pipeline that would ship Alberta’s dirty tar sands oil to Canada’s East Coast. The post As Keystone XL Falters,…
Me and James Dean at the Griffiths Observatory in LA
…where he filmed Rebel Without Cause. My God, we’re practically twins.
6306…Happy Birthday Barack Obama
53. Today. Give ‘er. WFDS
Vacation!!!
Closing down for a while, because we’re going on a holiday. It’s the first Lee and I have done in several years, what with fires and elderly cats and new…
Gruending On Liberal Christians In Canada
What about Canada? The historical influence of liberal Protestantism is undeniable. The social gospel movement drove political change from the 1930s to at least the 1960s. People such as J.…
Confessions of a Climate Change Denier
Yotam Marom, a political organizer, activist, educator, musician, and writer based in New York City, explains how the “Armageddon” narrative around climate change fuels denial. The post Confessions of a…
A(nother) Trip to the Mayo: The Power of Seamless Connections
For the record, the Soapbox family is not crazy about going to the US for medical care, but our eldest daughter (let’s call her “Missy”) has some serious health issues…
what i’m reading: clarence darrow, attorney for the damned, by john a. farrell
I last wrote about Clarence Darrow in early 2012, after reading a piece by one of my favourite New Yorker writers, Jill Lepore. Two new biographies of Darrow had been…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – David Atkins comments on the ever-growing disconnect between the interests of a few making a killing on Wall Street and the lives…
Harper’s Senate Reform Reference
For the most part, I have chosen to ignore Harper’s cheap gambit of trying to get the Supreme Court to overturn the amending formula in Canada’s constitution to enable Senate…