A panorama
Fun. Don’t move when shooting a 360. Or maybe you should move?
Not just Windsor
…perhaps. Quote: “While it’s Duncan’s seat and not her former riding, there’s still a lingering hostility among voters in the city about the way Pupatello was betrayed during the leadership…
Washington D.C. Approves Living Wage Bill
Washington D.C. lawmakers approved a proposed bill that institutes a living wage for the region. This is after a loud and boisterous campaign from Walmart to keep poverty-level wages. Walmart…
Paranoia, Not Public Safety
Stephen Harper likes to say that public safety is one of his government’s main priorities. After all, that’s what that new tough on crime legislation and those new prisons were…
Stephen Harper’s PMO withholding email about Wright-Duffy deal from RCMP – Some would call it ‘Obstruction of Justice’ …
Wow!“The Prime Minister’s Office has been withholding from the RCMP an email about the $90,000 cheque Stephen Harper’s former chief of staff wrote to Sen. Mike Duffy, CTV News has…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Wednesday, July 17, 2013: Bradley Manning defense lawyers say conviction would set ‘extremely bad precedent’ Mind the gap…
Which train goes to Scarborough?
The subway versus Light Rail Transit (LRT) to the far reaches of Scarborough is an argument at Toronto City Hall with little common sense to it. What we are hearing…
A Look at Scarborough-Guildwood
On August 1st, alongside Windsor-Tecumseh, London West, Etobicoke-Lakeshore, and Ottawa South, the voters of Scarborough-Guildwood will be heading to the polls in a day that is hopefully not as sweltering…
Dear Anna Kennedy: Please Stop Misrepresenting Autism, Autism Is A Health DISORDER NOT a Gift
Anyone described as “having autism” or “being autistic” would have received an autism disorder diagnosis pursuant, in all likelihood, to either the DSM or the ICD Dear Anna Kennedy My…
Documents referred to in Claim may be considered on motion to strike for no cause of action
McCreight v. Canada (Attorney General), 2013 ONCA 483 deals with the principle that, on a motion to strike for no cause of action, documents expressly referred to in the claim…
Death of Alex Colville
I met Alex Colville in his studio in Nova Scotia over thirty years ago. The precision and detail of his work was (and is) astonishing; certainly he created an instantly…
Bibendum’s Career Woes
When Michelin let him go, Bibendum thought he would be fine. That lazy brother of his, Bonhomme, had been pestering him to take over his duties at the Quebec Winter…
Climate Denial Is Not Affordable
While dirty energy continues to rake in record profits, the rest of us are going to be paying a higher and higher price for our governments’ inaction on climate change.…
Compound interest is the norm
Zacharias v. Zurich Insurance Company, 2013 ONCA 482 is an insurance case with implications beyond the insurance field. The court considers whether under specific legislation interest payable is simple or…
Rob Ford On Subways
He made these things up in his head. Then he repeated them to himself in a loud voice, and became somehow persuaded that they had been told to him by…
Nut up or shut up #nlpoli
The Liberal leadership is not even a couple of weeks old and already reporters are getting inundated with the suggestions from anonymous turd-mongers wondering why they are not covering this…
The Biggest Story Everyone Missed?
Are the Cons committing accounting fraud with the budget so that they can surprise us with a surplus in 2015?
Canada played hunger games with Aboriginal children
Reading this made me sick: Hungry Canadian aboriginal children were used in government experiments during 1940s, researcher says: The first experiment began in 1942 on 300 Norway House Cree. Of…