Another Murdoch Lieutenant Falls
The day began with the announcement that News International CEO Rebekah Moores had resigned. Now she's followed by her predecessor and Rupe Murdoch's handpicked publisher of The Wall Street Journal…
King Coal Australia Plans to Price Carbon
coal ships.JPG SO Australia’s carbon price cards are finally on the table.From July next year, the Federal Government will look to price greenhouse gas emissions at $23 per tonne rising…
Maybe We Should Have Gone in 2009
I've been thinking aloud recently about whether or not the Liberal Party would have been put into a better position post-election if said election was held during the fall of…
Question Of The Day
A question which, incidentally, has no good answer. And, by the way, defunding abortion is not a decades old position, as Hudak staffer Jacob Bloom has suggested (in a tweet…
Ford’s consultants: Miller was right
The Grid TO | Ford's consultants: Miller was rightLook wait-and-give-him-a-chance people and Ford followers: even the consultants, who Ford wasted a lot of money on, agree with David Miller, 1/3…
Bristol Palin on abstinance
"It sucks". On a slightly more serious front, here's the dancer's reasoning for her mom's media detractors.Do you feel like your mother has experienced extra media scrutiny? Yeah, I think…
Mayor Ford: Lies, Stupidity and Statistics
I suppose that few people are in danger of suggesting that Rob Ford is the sharpest knife in the drawer, which makes it all the more unfortunate that he's swinging…
Hudak’s position on abortion
Responding to a request for his position on abortion: “I believe that it is the government’s role to promote the choice of life in childbearing decisions, to encourage women to…
Karzai’s Assassin – The Afghan Conundrum in a Nutshell
The guy who gunned down the brother of Afghan president Hamid Karzai is almost a metaphor for what's never going to let us 'fix' Afghanistan.Two days ago, Ahmed Karzai was…
Talisman Energy Shelves "Friendly Fracosaurus" Coloring Book After Colbert Smackdown
Screen shot 2011-07-15 at 7.05.56 PM.png Talisman Terry, the Friendly Fracosaurus, has been officially suspended from his duties as an unconventional gas mascot. The cartoon dinosaur was used to ...
SAAB Sob
Venerable Swedish car maker, SAAB, is all but officially kaput. It's all about SAAB's suspensions. First it suspended payments to its suppliers. Then it suspended production. Now it's suspended paycheques…
Rupert Murdoch shaken not stirred
Murdoch and trophy in happier timesI'm not sure I buy that the News Corp boss was 'very shaken' by his apology to the family of the girl whose voice mail…
It all began with Maggie and Ron
The modern march to free market supremacy is often thought to have begun with the ascendancy of the conservative regimes of Margaret Thatcher in the U.K. and the Ronald Reagan…
In and of itself, a cheque imposes no obligation on a drawee bank to the payee
Canada Trustco Mortgage Co. v. Canada, 2011 SCC 36, released today, is an important decision dealing with the Bills of Exchange Act and, more generally, banking. The fact that a…
Bob Newhart’s call from Walter Raleigh
This is great on a couple of levels. First of all, it makes you think about all the strange little things we take for granted around us. I’m sure a…
Hate Speech, Religious Freedoms, and Islamophobia
Competing with the concurrent LGBT Pride parade in Toronto, a local imam took it upon himself to very publicly condemn homosexuality, referencing how Islamic law instructs us to execute those…
GOP Coal Ash Bill May Be Hazardous To Your Health
poison_sign.jpg The House Energy and Commerce Committee voted this week to allow a new bill on the regulation of coal ash to be considered for a full House vote. The…
Ahmadinejad May Be On Way Out
Al Jazeera is speculating that hothead Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may be about to resign. He has clashed with his country's real power, its supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, but…
Sentencing judge who intends to go outside joint submission must give an opportunity to respond
R. v. Abel, 2011 NWTCA 4 is a useful source for the principle that when a sentencing judge proposes to give a sentence outside the ranges submitted by counsel she…