140 Law – Headlines for Thursday, July 18, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Thursday, July 18, 2013: Failure to ask employee about questionable expenses prior to termination means no just cause…
Canada’s Print Media Editorial Boards Will Soon Have To Recognize The Need For Stephen Harper To Step Down
– National Post: Andrew Coyne “You will be shocked to see who is on Stephen Harper’s Enemy List-CTV News: PMO withholding email about Wright/Duffy deal from RCMP: sources -The Windsor…
For there to be reconciliation, there has to be truth.
When the news of intentional malnutrition of aboriginal children in 1940s Canada came out, a Crown Attorney I was sitting with said “that’s just like Nazi Germany”. My instinct was…
Inequality Keeps Them In Power
Everyone complains about public apathy. We know that democracy in Canada is in trouble. But nothing seems to change. Alex Himelfarb suggests that the reason things don’t change is because…
ERM, State Dept Keystone XL Contractor, Claimed Delaware Tar Sands Refinery Made Air Cleaner
A DeSmogBlog investigation reveals Environmental Resources Management, Inc. (ERM Group), the contractor that performed the environmental review for TransCanada’s Keystone XL tar sands export pipeline, was also recently hired by…
He Said, She Said ….
Yesterday I wrote a post detailing a CTV report on the obstruction from the PMO over its refusal to hand over an email pertaining to the the Wright-Duffy Senate payoff…
Happy Birthday!
I am 20,000 days old today! (And I’m very pleased that I get to share my birthday with Patti O’Stone this year.) Gc is making me raspberry jello with whipped…
Twenty-Eight Tequilas Later
The party got out of hand roughly the same time Professor Lunchbender decided to create the “ultimate” knob robot. Of course, you had to admire any affaire that required the…
Stampede 101 is in the books; now the cleanup will. . .never begin.
Stampede 101 is in the books; now the cleanup will. . .never begin. Say you threw a party for a million of your friends, because you knew you could rake…
Climate Heroes In Washington
The purposes of Citizens Climate Lobby are to create the political will for a stable climate & to empower individuals to have breakthroughs in exercising their personal and political power.…
You got cash? They’ve got a party. #nlpoli
The party that brought the province its first and only election finance law in 1991 is currently in the midst of a campaign to select its own leader, but the…
More alcohol in public spaces?
In a July 17 article in 24 hours, local pundit Daniel Fontaine asks the question, is it time to legalize booze at the beach? He also includes the idea of…
What if… a Fort McMurray-Wood Buffalo by-election?
TweetAfter being arrested in a prostitution sting in St. Paul, Minnesota, Fort McMurray-Wood Buffalo MLA Mike Allen resigned from the Progressive Conservative caucus. For the time-being, Mr. Allen will remain…
Diving into the racist cesspits
At Eschaton, Thers wrote yesterday: You know, anyone who thinks that we as a nation have Overcome Racism ought to check out the comments section of any local newspaper that…
Regional planning, an idea whose time has come again, whether Redwater likes it or not!
The region covered by Alberta’s Capital Region Board. Below: St. Albert Mayor Nolan Crouse, Redwater Mayor Mel Smith and Sturgeon County Mayor Don Rigney. ST. ALBERT The Town of Redwater…
A Public Statement Concerning Sexual Abuse in the Church of Jesus Christ – G.R.A.C.E.
G.R.A.C.E. (Godly response to abuse in the Christian Environment) Recent allegations of sexual abuse and cover-up within a well known international ministry and subsequent public statements by several evangelical leaders…
In Canada, hungry aboriginal kids, adults used as nutritional experiment subjects
In Canada, hungry aboriginal kids and adults were used as unwitting subjects of nutritional experiments by Canadian government bureaucrats during and after World War II, The Canadian Press reported Tuesday.…
Ontario’s New Energy Vision Misses the Mark on Climate Change
An interesting little program was brought to my attention earlier this evening as a result of tweet from someone whom I’ve only started following recently, but who seems to be…