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Jun 18, 2013
| Author: Warren
| Source: Warren Kinsella
Inspiring, inspired.
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Jun 18, 2013
| Author: James Curran
| Source: A Blog By James Curran
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Jun 18, 2013
| Author: Earl J. Woods
| Source: My Name is Earl (J. Woods)
While scanning and retouching some of Mom and Dad's old photos, I came across what should have been a perfectly innocent Christmas shot. Unfortunately in this image I seem to be sporting the crazed visage of a budding young madman - the ...
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Jun 18, 2013
| Author: John Klein
| Source: Abandoned Stuff by Saskboy
I couldn’t keep a straight face over this one. The T-Rex Burger is offensive, but the Baconator isn’t? “She said the fast-food restaurant “strives to deliver a positive dining experience for our customers. Our goal is to provide options ...
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Jun 18, 2013
| Author: James C Morton
| Source: Morton's Musings
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Jun 18, 2013
| Author: James C Morton
| Source: Morton's Musings
Shtaif v. Toronto Life Publishing Co. Ltd., 2013 ONCA 405 holds the single publication rule in defamation does not apply in Ontario:
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Jun 17, 2013
| Author: The Mound of Sound
| Source: The Disaffected Lib
Big Fathers' Day weekend in Chi-town. 46 people shot in under 72-hours. That's approaching Baghdad-level violence.
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Jun 17, 2013
| Author: John Klein
| Source: Abandoned Stuff by Saskboy
When we thought Toronto’s crack Mayor Rob Ford was about to take the national scandal prize, Montreal’s replacement Mayor Michael Appelbaum rides (in a police car) to the rescue with corruption charges. What major city mayor is next to ...
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Jun 17, 2013
| Author: The Mound of Sound
| Source: The Disaffected Lib
The Canadian team, AeroVelo, may have won the prize for the first, man-powered helicopter flight.
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Jun 17, 2013
| Author: Warren
| Source: Warren Kinsella
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Jun 17, 2013
| Author: H L Doherty
| Source: Facing Autism in New Brunswick
We have been very happy with the excellent care Conor received after his adverse drug reaction. Everyone involved, from our family doctor who saw us very quickly after our concerns arose, immediately advised cutting back on Conor's med ...
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Jun 17, 2013
| Author: The Mound of Sound
| Source: The Disaffected Lib
In my humble opinion, no Canadian general directly associated with the fiasco of our war in Afghanistan should be a candidate for government perks. That's certainly true for Rick Hiller who, by all accounts misled then prime minister ...
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Jun 17, 2013
| Author: The Mound of Sound
| Source: The Disaffected Lib
He used to lambaste the Chinese - before he became Beijing's bitumen bumboy - but Sideshow Steve Harper has shown he still has game when it comes to Russia and Vlad Putin.
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Jun 17, 2013
| Author: The Mound of Sound
| Source: The Disaffected Lib
Chinese artist and persecuted dissident, Ai Weiwei, has an interesting take on the U.S. NSA Prism scandal in today's Guardian in which he says America is behaving like China.
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Jun 17, 2013
| Author: CuriosityCat
| Source: CuriosityCat
High noon at 10 Downing StreetPoliticians are becoming more graphic in their descriptions of the warring sides in the Syrian civil war, with the latest spat leading to a shortened meeting between Prime Minister David Cameron of the UK a ...
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Jun 17, 2013
| Author: The Mound of Sound
| Source: The Disaffected Lib
Back in the mid-70's I managed to snag a quick interview with the head prosecutor of the Quebec crime commission while the fellow was in Ottawa.
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Jun 17, 2013
| Author: somecanuckchick
| Source: somecanuckchick dot com
You remember Bruce Carson, a [former] top adviser to PMSH? And, then there was that $90K cheque from PMSH’s right-hand man, Nigel Wright, to Mike Duffy… Well, now there’s Saulie Zajdel… you remember Saulie Zajdel, right? Saulie Zajdel w ...
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Jun 17, 2013
| Author: The Mound of Sound
| Source: The Disaffected Lib
There has been talk that Ottawa might jump aboard the U.S. missile defence programme out of fear of a rogue missile launch from North Korea.
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Jun 17, 2013
| Author: Warren
| Source: Warren Kinsella
I was up at the cabin all weekend, attending to more important matters. So I didn’t hear about Scott Reid’s attack on Jean Chretien in the Ottawa Citizen until I got back. I won’t link to it. It’s a piece of shit, and what you’d expec ...
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Jun 17, 2013
| Author: Peter Lowry
| Source: Babel-on-the-Bay
It is good to hear that some think tanks are taking a hard look at the Conservative government’s Economic Action Plan. They act surprised. What seems to puzzle the academics is that the Conservatives are spending more taxpayers’ money o ...
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Jun 17, 2013
| Author: bigcitylib
| Source: BigCityLib Strikes Back
This, then, is the measure of the man! O Glorious, GLORIOUS Justin!!! Myself I wouldn't have offered a penny back to these silver-haired con-artists! No! I would have told them to go stuff it, and if that didn't appease 'em I'd ha ...
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Jun 17, 2013
| Author: John Klein
| Source: Abandoned Stuff by Saskboy
Some really excellent criticism of wide swaths of the MSM, from… Gawker??? Let’s be honest: Edward Snowden (pictured), the man who made a calculated decision to risk everything he has in order to reveal the NSA’s secret spying program, ...
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Jun 17, 2013
| Author: Rachel, Law Clerk
| Source: Wise Law Blog
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Monday, June 17, 2013:
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Jun 17, 2013
| Author: James C Morton
| Source: Morton's Musings
Mission Creek Mortgage Ltd. v. Angleland Holdings Inc., 2013 BCCA 281 holds a discretionary decision should be overtruned only where the decision was clearly wrong or the court of first instance gave insufficient weight to one or more ...
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Jun 17, 2013
| Author: James C Morton
| Source: Morton's Musings
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Jun 17, 2013
| Author: Kyle H.
| Source: Blunt Objects
Last week, former Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty (2003-2013) resigned from his provincial seat as representative for the riding of Ottawa South which, amazingly, is located in Ottawa, Ontario.
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Jun 17, 2013
| Author: James C Morton
| Source: Morton's Musings
No details yet. But a story that makes Toronto's follies looks like a trifle! Quebec is always a leader in Canada,,,
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Jun 17, 2013
| Author: thescottross.blogspot.com
| Source: The Scott Ross
The thing about chemical weapons is that an odor usually follows their use, what is odd about Syria is that it is the United States' decision to arm the rebels that stinks.
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Jun 17, 2013
| Author: James C Morton
| Source: Morton's Musings
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Jun 17, 2013
| Author: Earl J. Woods
| Source: My Name is Earl (J. Woods)
Sometime in the early 1970s, before Sean was born, Mom and Dad took me on a vacation to British Columbia, probably to visit Aunt Jean and Uncle John in Kelowna. I remember this ferry crossing vividly because it was very hot, I was tired ...
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Jun 16, 2013
| Author: bigcitylib
| Source: BigCityLib Strikes Back
A toxic waste spill in northern Alberta has killed off roughly 42 hectares of boreal forest, in what could be the biggest environmental disaster in North America in recent history.
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Jun 16, 2013
| Author: CuriosityCat
| Source: CuriosityCat
A breath of fresh air in OttawaIn a move that is refreshing, because it shows an MP who is willing to listen to criticism, and to rethink matters in the light of such criticism, Justin Trudeau has announced that he will work with charit ...
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Jun 16, 2013
| Author: John Prince
| Source: JOHN PRINCE
Last week saw the organizational meeting of the newly formed group above that I spoke about here last month...
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Jun 16, 2013
| Author: ck
| Source: Sister Sage's Musings
Well, as usual, Stevie gets his wish. The channel has been changed from senategate, thanks to his buddies in corporate media. Of course, being away in Europe begging on his knees for the French and the Irish to buy out yet another pie ...
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Jun 16, 2013
| Author: LeDaro
| Source: LeDaro
Sit back and enjoy the music. It is very soothing music.
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Jun 16, 2013
| Author: Peter Lowry
| Source: Babel-on-the-Bay
MP Olivia Chow’s campaign for the Toronto mayoralty might be peaking too soon. Any political apparatchik can tell you that the time for a campaign to peak is when people are heading for the polls—not more than a year ahead. The municipa ...
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Jun 16, 2013
| Author: LeDaro
| Source: LeDaro
It is an amazing story. Dylan Mahalingham,s achievements at a very young age are extraordinary.
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Jun 16, 2013
| Author: James C Morton
| Source: Morton's Musings
Someone, now charged with assault, threw juice at Rob Ford.
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Jun 16, 2013
| Author: bigcitylib
| Source: BigCityLib Strikes Back
Apparently not:
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Jun 16, 2013
| Author: thescottross.blogspot.com
| Source: The Scott Ross
Conservatives believe Justin Trudeau was wrong to take money from nonprofit organizations because to this government that's the job for rich investors on Bay Street.
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Jun 16, 2013
| Author: The Mound of Sound
| Source: The Disaffected Lib
Does climate change and the fear of public unrest explain why Western governments have sharply ramped up domestic surveillance of our digital communications? According to The Guardian, that's precisely what's going on.
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Jun 16, 2013
| Author: Warren
| Source: Warren Kinsella
Dalton McGuinty, we hardly knew ye. Every time I encountered the former Ontario premier over the course of a decade and a bit — and I did so many times, as the chair of his election war rooms in 2003, 2007 and 2011 — I’d remember that a ...
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Jun 16, 2013
| Author: John Klein
| Source: Abandoned Stuff by Saskboy
Most people in Regina assume they’ll be able to park a vehicle, or two, or three, for free outside of their home. Street parking is technically 24 hours in most residential neighbourhoods away from downtown and the university. Downtown ...
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Jun 16, 2013
| Author: Earl J. Woods
| Source: My Name is Earl (J. Woods)
WARNING - SPOILERS for MAN OF STEEL
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Jun 15, 2013
| Author: LeDaro
| Source: LeDaro
Bewildered and lost like this man.
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Jun 15, 2013
| Author: Paul Morrison
| Source: J. Paul Morrison
"In a major victory for women’s health, the [US] Supreme Court has ruled 9-0 that isolated human genes may not be patented. The case concerned the firm Myriad Genetics’ patent on genes linked to higher risks of hereditary breast and ova ...
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Jun 15, 2013
| Author: James C Morton
| Source: Morton's Musings
I am writing legally. This note does not consider the "morality" of the issue.
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Jun 15, 2013
| Author: James C Morton
| Source: Morton's Musings
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Jun 15, 2013
| Author: John Prince
| Source: JOHN PRINCE
The annual “Darcy’s Nature Walk for Mental Wellness” (in memory of Darcy Rinaldi) is a locally organized event designed to increase awareness surrounding mental health & wellness, increase physical activity levels, and raise funds for ...
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Jun 15, 2013
| Author: The Mound of Sound
| Source: The Disaffected Lib
British Defence Secretary, Philip Hammond, says the miserable war in Afghanistan has been his country's Vietnam.
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Jun 15, 2013
| Author: The Mound of Sound
| Source: The Disaffected Lib
A short documentary that reveals what lies in store for the innocent when digital, robo-surveillance, gets it wrong.
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Jun 15, 2013
| Author: LeDaro
| Source: LeDaro
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Jun 15, 2013
| Author: The Mound of Sound
| Source: The Disaffected Lib
Did Tony Blair break up the marriage between 82-year old Rupert Murdoch and his 44-year old wife, Wendi Deng?
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Jun 15, 2013
| Author: Paul Morrison
| Source: J. Paul Morrison
"They weren’t motivated to release secret material by any ideology or mentor. Their motives were naive, moral and direct. ...
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Jun 15, 2013
| Author: thescottross.blogspot.com
| Source: The Scott Ross
In the free market prices reflect demand, instead of choosing a few events to speak at arbitrarily, Justin Trudeau set a price to attend those gatherings that wanted him the most. This method of relying on market prices to benefit chari ...
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Jun 15, 2013
| Author: Peter Lowry
| Source: Babel-on-the-Bay
Luckily for Canadian communications people, English is a living language. It is in a state of constant change and usage and there is no tribunal ready to refuse this use or that use of words or forbid the encroachment of another languag ...
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Jun 15, 2013
| Author: James C Morton
| Source: Morton's Musings
Criminal Code
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Jun 15, 2013
| Author: Warren
| Source: Warren Kinsella
Dr. T. Douglas KINSELLA, CM, BA, MD, FACP, FRCPC. Like some men, and as was the practice in some families, my brothers and I did not hug my father a lot. As we got older in places like Montreal, or Kingston, or Dallas or Calgary, we als ...
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Jun 15, 2013
| Author: James C Morton
| Source: Morton's Musings
Skirting carefully around a contentious federal government policy, she says that the legal regime used to decide the fate of violent, mentally ill offenders has worked smoothly and “served us well.”
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Jun 15, 2013
| Author: bigcitylib
| Source: BigCityLib Strikes Back
First, from the CAS site:
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