Frequently-quoted answers to simple questions
Pogge asks:Is (Brad) Wall so uninformed that he doesn't know about (federal subsidies for the oil sands)?It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends…
First Nations children are more likely to go to jail than to graduate from high school
The federal government spends just 2 per cent of its federal prison budget, which exceeds $2-billion a year, on aboriginal programs. ... From an incarceration point of view, aboriginals are…
The Bank Moves to Hit the Ball
The release of today’s Monetary Policy Report from the Bank of Canada follows yesterday’s announcement of no change in interest rates, the latest in a long series. It reminds me…
Unclear on the concept
Quick, try to make sense of this passage from Postmedia's coverage of the Cons' plans to reintroduce gun registry legislation this fall:In October 2010, the bill was killed by an…
From the Earth to the moon
Forty two years later, the American manned space program is about to die. For the first time in half a century the United States will not have the ability to…
Tim Hudak on witch-burnings
(Toronto, July 20) DawgNews has just learned that Tim Hudak, the Ontario Progressive Conservative leader likely to become the next premier of the province, once circulated a petition calling for…
A tribute to the late Sir Edward Elgar
I love how he has to struggle to get the premise out, because he knows is SO damn funny. Alltop is a maestro of the less-popular instrument, the garden hose…
Some Insights On Rupert Murdoch’s Troubles
My friend Gary, who has developed quite a talent for epistolary irony, sent me an email this morning on the Murdoch appearance yesterday before the British Parliament. With his permission,…
Harper Regime Considering Army Officer, Spy Chief as New Head of Mounties
There will be a new chief for the RCMP named soon, and the field of candidates appears to be notably weak and controversial, at least from the scanty coverage in…
A Hike to the Secret Passage
Last Friday and Saturday morning, before higher temperatures required me to do nothing but lie on the couch and read, A and I got up at 6:00 am to hike.…
Vetrovec caution
R. v. Roks, 2011 ONCA 526 contains a helpful review of the need for corroboration (in a loose sense) in a Vetrovec context: The principal complaint in this case has…
The State of Open Data Licenses in Canada and where to go from here
(for readers less interested in Open Data - I promise something different tomorrow) In February I wrote how 2011 would be the year of the license for Canada's open data…
Government of Canada Deceives Abused Telemarketers
Continuing my regular series of hopelessly bad government press releases, let me just say that if this is what human resources minister Diane Finley thinks is strong affirmative action in…
how Boarders blew it
Good summary of the marketing and financial decisions that led to Boarder’s bankruptcy http://ow.ly/5Jds3 Filed under: Miscellany
Deja Vu All Over Again
Does this sound familiar?: As Cameron rushed through South Africa and Nigeria on a whistle-stop trade tour, aides urged reporters to focus on other issues. "Perspective" was a word that…
Herman Cain – The Godfather Pizza Guy
Herman Cain is one of the GOP Presidnetial candidates for 2012. He thinks being CEO of Godfather Pizza is a great qualification for President. He probably also thinks that people…
counting calories? stop! there’s new info on food and exercise
And despite conventional advice to eat less fat, weight loss was greatest among people who ate more yogurt and nuts, including peanut butter, over each four-year period. via nytimes.com An…
Rumpole and the Cardinal Rule
St. John’s lawyer Averill Baker is pissed that the Crown prosecutor is trying to remove her from a case because she represented the victim in the savage beating her current…
Reasonable diligence and discoverability for limitation periods
Valesco v. North York Chevrolet Oldsmobile Ltd., 2011 ONCA 522 deals with diligence and discoverability for a limitation period. A period runs from the date a claim is discovered and that the earlier…