Projections for Manitoba 2011
Manitoba's election is utterly down the wire - but it's pretty much looking like yet another term for the Manitoba NDP and Premier Greg Selinger, who's running his first election.I've…
A Buffoon’s Progress
Lawrence Martin writes, in today's Globe and Mail, that:If you were picking the most valuable player on Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s front bench, you wouldn’t be far off in pointing…
The Mug’s Game
Trying to predict seat counts based on a limited number of publicly available polls is - as PEI demonstrates - a mug's game, at best. The final tally: 22 Liberals…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for October 04, 2011
Here are today's leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter: The importance of being civil - Canadian Lawyer Magazine -http://goo.gl/2yx6b Bill C-11: Commentary Round-Up (10.03.11) - http://goo.gl/8nBCv Ontario PCs…
When Police Chiefs Go Rogue
In a frightening, bald, and very public display of how much of a politician he has become, Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair has announced that he is no longer taking…
McGuinty – He said it, then didn’t do it…
McGuinty say lots of things and doesn't always manage to do the things he says he will or won't do, as we all know. This from the Toronto Star today....…
Trending Liberal
Yesterday, we saw conflicting polls, but that divergence has quickly evaporated, as the new Nanos suddenly looks a lot like the earlier EKOS, while the new EKOS shows further widening…
Ontario projection… just for the hell of it…
Yeah, yeah… I and everyone else was off base last time when all of we so-called “pundits” tried to pick the outcome of the May 2 election. And I have…
Harper: The Private Members Bill Puppet Master
Doesn’t it seem too much of a coincidence that upon the resumption of the new session of parliament all these new private members bills are coming from his back benches?…
A self-induced recession
An item at the Economist that is making the rounds conveys a quite frustrating aspect of the economic situation in Europe and the U.S.: "A self-induced recession"YOU know, if it…
When politics turns ugly
The distribution of these flyers was disgusting – gutter politics in the truest sense of the definition – and the most desperate political tactic I have witnessed in a long,…
The Laser Equipped Autonomous Robotic Vacuum
(from the 2037 Hammacher Schlemmer Glaven catalog) This is the robotic vacuum that navigates autonomously through your home up to seven times per week, where it can either clean your…
A judge’s discretion regarding support awards is typically given considerable deference and not overturned on appeal "unless the reasons disclose an error in principle, a significant misapprehension of the evidence, or the award is clearly wrong"
Khurana v. Khurana, 2011 ABCA 261 deals with appeals from support awards. The Court emphasizes the deference to be paid to the judge of first instance saying: Standard of Review…
A funeral and an art-making party for Elmaks
If you would like to pay your respects to Maks at either or both of the following events, you are very welcome to attend. WELLS, Maxim Thursday, September 29, 2011.…
Who Won PEI?
Yesterday PEI had an election where they re-elected the Liberal government. The Liberals got 22 and the PC got 5 seats. No some would claim that since the PC won…
Enviralment is a Flog For PWU (Power Workers Union)
That is, a fake Blog used as a sales tool, in this case by the Ontario Power Workers Union to trash Dalton McGuinty's Green Energy Act: A bold labour union…
The secret anti-green energy online campaign of the Power Workers’ Union
What the Power Workers' Union has been up to during the Ontario election campaign to undermine the Liberal government's green energy policies: "Ontario marketing campaign seeded Internet with 'conversations' promoting…
Telelink releases campaign’s only independent poll #nlvotes #nlpoli
NTV and Telelink released the only independent poll of the campaign on Monday and with a week to go in the 2011 general election, things are on track for a…
Your Daily Nazi: Support Rises For Storseth Private Member’s Bill Among Canadian Neo-Nazis!
From here:Yeah, its that Paul Fromm. And of course Heritage Front leader Marc Lemire is down with the repeal as well:Mr. Storseth, you must be so proud.
Occupy Wall Street ‘zombies’ keep protest alive
Yesterday 'protesters' pushed alarms all over the TTC; the result? Were rich corporate fat cats delayed? No - they don't take the TTC. The people delayed for work, the people…