Corroboration absent and judgment set aside
Anten v. Bhalerao, 2013 ONCA 499 uses the concept of corroboration to set aside a finding of incapacity. The testimony of a witness is said to be corroborated when it…
Halifax: speaking at the International Association of Fire Fighters Conference
I like these guys! They gave me standing O and bought every available copy of Fight The Right! I’m in the mood to run for office, now!
Postmedia: Hiring of Chrystia Freeland validates right wing view of media as "one gigantic anti-Conservative cabal"
Marc Weisblott pens the crux of right-wing paranoia and self-deception when it comes to Canada’s media (emphasis mine). The view that much of Canadian journalism is one gigantic anti-Conservative cabal…
The Red Wings Fiddle While Detroit Burns
The new iconic photo of post-crash Detroit. Listen, can you hear the footsteps of Robocop? We can’t really blame just the Red Wings. We have to blame the Tigers and…
SHAME: Toronto Plaza Hotel disparages striking workers as ‘animals’
The Toronto Plaza Hotel has branded its predominantly visible minority women employees as “animals” for fighting to protect their modest pay and benefits. The post SHAME: Toronto Plaza Hotel disparages…
Coming Soon, Your Eyes on the World
Astronaut Chris Hadfield reconnected countless millions of people to the wonders of space. His space station performance of the David Bowie classic “Space Oddity” has racked up more than 17-million…
What’s Old Is New Again. The Return of the Workhouse.
Stephen Harper has a prison fetish. Despite steady declines in crime rates in Canada over the past four decades, Steve is hell bent on building new prisons. We like to…
Ottawa South PCPO candidate Matt Young anti-choice?
Matt Young has refused to publicly state a position on abortion. When he was questioned on CFRA Young said that abortion is a federal issue and refused to comment. It…
Hell 2.2
Might be time to recap my reasons for writing this series. New readers could get confused about the content in the Hell posts, of which this is the fourth. They’re…
Deference to findings of fact
Barclays Bank PLC v. Devonshire Trust, 2013 ONCA 494: Second, findings of fact by the trial judge attract deference on appeal and are only reviewable by this court if they…
Thank God
I mean it, too: thank God.
What was Former Prime Minister Paul Martin Thinking?
As an Indigenous woman I have been exposed to the atrocities of genocide through sex-discrimination and through the denial of land and resources. I continue to live with these genocidal…
On Liberty and Death
One of the reasons I advocate for restrictions on personal freedom as a means to save our species from extinction is that I need my own behaviours to be externally…
Millions of Brazilians show up to greet Pope Francis
This pope is quite an improvement on his predecessor. Here are millions of people who believe in the Pope and religion despite that Catholic Church has troubled past and those…
On enemies lists, and what our mothers would say
The brouhaha over the revelation that the Prime Minister’s Office prepared enemies lists has died down somewhat, although former Harper cabinet minister Monte Solberg weighed back in this weekend with…
Mayor Rob Ford very angry
Maybe he smoked too much Marijuana. 🙂
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – Bill Gardner discusses the effect of inequality and poverty starting at birth: There are three important facts packed into this slide. First, the…
Tim Hudak abortion refresher
PC leader Tim Hudak is believes that “it is the government’s role to promote the choice of life and his London West candidate Ali Chahbar is “pro-life and pro-family (whatever…