How to Get Out From the Invasive PRISM Surveillance Program
Thanks to the brave efforts from Edward Snowden we are now aware of something long suspected: that the USA (and many other nations including Canada) are reading our communications. The…
Cletus, Jethro, Beula and Slim…
… would all be great names for the yet-to-be-born latest British royal anachronism! I listened with disgust this morning as some zombie from the monarchist league of Canada (yes, they’re…
Conservatives vs. Conservatives – Anti-union bill gets gutted in Canadian Senate
When the Federal Tories took “progressive” out of their title after merging with the Reform Party, it was inevitable that the radical right wing ideology of the Reformers would come…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – The Canadian Labour Congress calls out Jim Flaherty for stalling on his promise to work on boosting the Canada Pension Plan. Meanwhile,…
New column day
Here, on some of the next steps Saskatchewan should consider along the path toward the preservation of human rights – including adding “social condition” as a prohibited ground of discrimination,…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Thursday, June 27, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Thursday, June 27, 2013: Survival Tips for Google Reader’s July 1 Demise – my post today What do…
And that must be the length of it.
When you are always intending to write something about blogs and finally get around to it, you wonder why. As a blogger, you should be able to say something positive…
Toronto needs a mayor: why I can’t support John Tory
The Toronto Star continues to giddily shred its credibility with its reliance on the same polling outfit that (a) declared a “crushing” Wildrose majority government in Alberta (b) a “comfortable”…
Goodbye Google Reader: Survival Tips for July 1 and Beyond
Today at SlawTips, I look at the world after Google Reader, which is to be closed down on July 1st, and offer a few promising alternatives for legal power-users who…
Yahoo News: Harper Reformatories make themselves the (bad) story
The other reason this story is important is because it shows how very afraid the Conservatives are of the new Liberal leader. Since Trudeau won the Liberal leadership in April,…
The Peripatetic Pamela
It would seem that the good Senator from somewhere, Pamela Wallin, is on the road so much that she has been denied health coverage in both Ontario and Saskatchewan, at…
The Future Is — Retail
Statscan reports that, when it comes to employment in Canada, the future is in retailing.We no longer make things. We sell things that other people make. According to The Toronto…
Harper Owes Us A Plan
From Simon Donner, of UBC:For about a decade, the explanation for a lack of coherent Canadian climate policy was the lack of a coherent American climate policy. How could our…
Water and beans #nlpoli
You don’t make the kind of telephone calls Cathy Bennett has been making if you aren’t already headed toward an announcement you will go after a political party leadership. What…
The Downfall of DOMA and the Triumph of Love
I've been studiously trying to ignore anything that happens in the United States these days.Because it's summer, the place is a mad house, and if I need crazy I've got…
API Spent $22 Million Lobbying for Keystone XL; State Dept Contractor ERM an API Member
In President Barack Obama’s Climate Action Plan address, he stated that TransCanada’s Keystone XL tar sands pipeline would only receive State Department approval “if this project does not significantly exacerbate…
John Tory will save us from ourselves
John Tory announced today that he is considering campaigning to be Mayor of Toronto in 2014. All I can say is, thank god. “I’m being asked to think about and…