Admission of inappropriate expert evidence may be harmless
R. v. Granada, 2013 ABCA 273 points out that expert evidence may be inadmissible but still not prejudicial. Generally expert evidence is excluded because it will be given too much…
Bradley Manning: A hero or a traitor
I believe that all Bradley Manning did was to expose the atrocities committed by the Americans in Iraq. He is a whistle-blower. Instead of making accountable and punish those who…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Thomas Walkom points out that while Stephen Harper managed to push the world in the wrong direction over the past few years, he…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Wednesday, July 31, 2013: Ex-client presumed dead after breaking into La. law firm and ‘shooting everything,’ partner says…
Fox News is the Best Thing that Could have Happened to Reza Aslan
The world-infamous Fox News, not needing to further prove how ultra-conservative, biased, xenophobic and anti-Islam they are, went on to further tarnish their 'good' (see disgraced) reputation by going after…
Fox News is the Best Thing that Could have Happened to Reza Aslan
The world-infamous Fox News, not needing to further prove how ultra-conservative, biased, xenophobic and anti-Islam they are, went on to further tarnish their ‘good’ (see disgraced) reputation by going after…
Fox News is the Best Thing that Could have Happened to Reza Aslan
The world-infamous Fox News, not needing to further prove how ultra-conservative, biased, xenophobic and anti-Islam they are, went on to further tarnish their 'good' (see disgraced) reputation by going after…
Fox News is the Best Thing that Could have Happened to Reza Aslan
The world-infamous Fox News, not needing to further prove how ultra-conservative, biased, xenophobic and anti-Islam they are, went on to further tarnish their ‘good’ (see disgraced) reputation by going after…
All the Hilarious Hypocrite Holyday Memes in One Place! #pcpo #onpoli #HypocriteHolyday #PoorSteveRyan
Before Doug Holyday was officially parachuted in as the Etobicoke-Lakeshore Conservative candidate, we had Steve Ryan, affectionately known as Poor Steve Ryan. The guy found out by Twitter he was…
The King Of Austerity
The damage Stephen Harper has done to his country is everywhere. Three years ago, at the G20 Summit, he touted Canada’s economic growth. But now that he has implemented his…
The secret apology
Someone has lost a legal case to me. They have had to issue an apology. They are trying to keep the fact of that secret. It’s a rather existential bit…
Sammy Yatim Killing: The Spin Cycle Has Begun
There is no question that the police and their supporters are desperate to ‘change the channel’ from the murder of Sammy Yatim to the terrible pressures police officers face. As…
Lightening: Hair raising experience
Michael McQuilken, right, was 18 when he and his brother, Sean, 12, climbed California’s Moro Rock in 1975. The photo was used for years to warn about the dangers of…
Inference in the absence of evidence an error
Drawing an inference in the absence of any direct evidence is a material error: 1250264 Ontario Inc. v. Pet Valu Canada Inc. 2013 ONCA 279, O.J. No. 2012, at para…
Ontario’s Speaker: the PCs are idiots
Well, he didn’t say that, but he may as well have. Despite Lisa MacLeod’s claims that her party had unearthed evidence that Ontario’s Speaker had been “bullied” – despite her…
Wait: I thought the Conservative Party supported the troops?
Remember that? That same old tired refrain has come from this party since in power – trying to hold a monopoly on patriotism. That includes such episodes as the Afghan…
Review: The Silence of Animals
My rating: 3.5 of 5 stars In 1961 Martin Luther King Jr. told an audience on the New York University campus: “Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step…
How Offshore Tax Havens Destroy Governments
Last fall, Greek magazine editor Kostas Vaxevanis published in his magazine Hot Doc a list of 2,000 wealthy Greeks who were hiding taxable savings in the Geneva branch of HSBC.…
Putting the ‘t’ in Church
Took kids to the Trinity church in #Boston. My son (w/ #autism) asks: 'Why is there a giant 't' up there?' He says the best things sometimes— Kathleen O'Grady (@kathleenogrady)…