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Warren Kinsella: Are Google and its execs crooked? (Also, bonus Canadian Minister of Hubris links.)

Jun

27

2017

The European Union certainly seems to think so: The European Union’s competition watchdog has slapped a record 2.42 billion euro fine — roughly $3.6 billion Cdn — on internet giant Google for breaching antitrust rules with its online shopping service. European regulators said Tuesday that “Google has abused its market dominance as a search engine by giving an ...

Wise Law Blog: LawFact of the Day: Employment Law

Jun

27

2017

Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law Toronto on Tuesday June 27, 2017. Today we are talking about Employment Law. Did you know that certain terms of an employment contract are applicable even after the end of your employment. This can include the duty of confidentiality, non-solicitation, and non-compete clauses. It is important to ...

Warren Kinsella: Eye ulso beleive inn gud spulling

Jun

27

2017

Politics and its Discontents: Dispatches From Hell

Jun

27

2017

… with a little water thrown in at the end to balance things out. Meanwhile, Fortune Magazine predicts that things will only get much, much worse in the years to come. Recommend this Post

Montreal Simon: When Progressives Shoot Themselves In The Foot

Jun

27

2017

As you may know, one of the things that drives me wild is to see progressives attacking each other, instead of the real enemy.Only to end up shooting themselves in the foot.I've seen what that has done in Canada, and how it gave us ten years of Stephen Harper.And more recently I've seen how it helped ...

Northern Reflections: Time To Jettison Failed Ideas

Jun

27

2017

On our 100th birthday, Michael Valpy writes that “we fell in love with ourselves.” But, on our 150th birthday, our mood has changed: A recent exploration by polling firm EKOS Research reports that the importance of many long-time salient symbols of our sense of nationhood is dramatically eroding. Canadians report that the significance to their ...

Things Are Good: The Tube is Heating up While London is Trying to Stay Cool

Jun

27

2017

London’s tube system is literally heating up the city – and that’s a problem. A hundred years ago their subway stations were places to cool down during hot summer days and people had to wear sweaters while commuting. Today, this is no longer the case. The trains are heating the earth which in turn makes ...

Babel-on-the-Bay: Harry says nobody wants the crown!

Jun

27

2017

That was the good news the other day. In an interview with American Newsweek Magazine, Prince Harry of the House of Windsor said that nobody in the royal family really aspires to being King or Queen. What Harry probably meant was that it would be unseemly for any royal to want the crown while it ...

Dead Wild Roses: Watch – The Normalization of Male Violence in ‘Civilized’ Society

Jun

27

2017

http://tehbewilderness.tumblr.com/post/162144889809/mypowerourpower-yayfeminism-screencaps-from Articles like this highlight the systemic, societal based normative attitudes that we are bathed in. Male violence is looked on in a sympathetic light and the narratives spun around them serve as a justification for their actions. Lying in wait with a shotgun under your family’s car and then dispatching your wife and daughter ...

Alberta Politics: Alberta Liberal David Khan’s call for election spending laws to include PACs strikes a chord

Jun

27

2017

PHOTOS: Alberta Liberal Leader David Khan, who is worried about the activities of the province’s Political Action Committees. Former premier Ed Stelmach is visible behind him. Below: Progressive Conservative Leader Jason Kenney, whose party’s activities are supported by PACs, and a United Farmers of Alberta gas station in Lacombe, grabbed from the UFA Archives online. ...

PostArctica: The Chair

Jun

27

2017

Excellent work! Broken Light: A Photography Collective Please welcome first-time contributor Katie Kelleher, a 29-year-old artist living in Asheville, North Carolina. She has been faced with mental health challenges, including bipolar disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, anorexia, and self harm, leading to hospitalizations, treatments, hardships, and different turns along the journey. The experience of mental illness ...

Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Will Mandryk Eat His Privatization Crow?

Jun

27

2017

Has anyone watched Mandryk eat crow about this doozy of a column defending Wall’s last campaign yet? “NDP must get off privatization merry-go-round“ “On Tuesday, Wall emphatically said “no” to selling SaskPower, SaskEnergy, SaskTel, SGI and even STC. He reminded voters he signed the old NDP Crown Corporation Protection Act and noted his only proposed ...

Anti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: June 25 And The WCAI: Not To Beat A Dead Horse, But….

Jun

27

2017

Look, I know that ARC has spending an inordinate amount of time focused on the Worldwide Coalition Against Islam (WCAI) and their MEGA Rally in Calgary this past weekend. As a result I haven't had time to focus on other stories such as Ronny Cameron (poor, poor, snowflake) being humiliated at Toronto's Pride Parade because ...

Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Wonder Woman

Jun

26

2017

Last Tuesday I went to see Wonder Woman [9/10], with Jeri. We tried the reclining seat theatre at the Southland Mall. The chairs were no so great. They had cool electronic buttons to kick up the foot rest, but they didn’t recline worth a darn. As a Klein, I know a good re-kleiner when I ...

Warren Kinsella: This week’s column: ten reasons Trudeau is going to win again

Jun

26

2017

[And also on HuffPo, here.] Justin Trudeau is going to win the next federal election. Now, we know, we know. The election is far away. He’s broken some promises. His legislative achievements are modest. The Tories and the Dippers are getting shiny new leaders. Commenters are commenting that he’s slipping. And, in the post-Trump/Brexit era, ...

The Decarie Report: June 26: Canadian hero kills—-somebody….

Jun

26

2017

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/highrises-evacuated-in-london-amid-safety-concerns-about-cladding-1.4176046 Our news media haven’t, as a rule, paid much attention to what caused the terrible high-rise fire in London, England. The cause was the much admired ability of capitalism to do things on the cheap – especially when dealing with the poor._______________________________________________________________________https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/trudeau-government-proposes-opening-st-lawrence-marine-protected-area-to-oil-exploration/article35455157/ Isn’t Justin wonderful? This means he’s planning to rely on fossil fuels ...

Canadian Dimension: World’s biggest coal company closes 37 mines as solar power’s influence grows

Jun

26

2017

Photo from PhilippBreu.com The largest coal mining company in the world has announced it will close 37 mines because they are no longer economically viable. Coal India, which produces around 82 per cent of India’s coal, said the mines would be decommissioned by March 2018. The closures, of around 9 per cent of the state-run ...

The Disaffected Lib: Python Politics

Jun

26

2017

Theresa May, Brexit, Python – Perfect.

Wise Law Blog: Top 10 Legal headlines for the Week of June 26, 2017

Jun

26

2017

Here are our Top 10 legal headlines for the week of June 26, 2017. For links, visit 140Law at http://wiselaw.blogspot.com For more information on Employment Law, Family Law, Wills, Estates, and Estates Litigation, visit our website at www.wiselaw.net. – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net

The Disaffected Lib: The Perils of Judicial Partisanship

Jun

26

2017

The U.S. Supreme Court has greenlighted Donald Trump’s 90-day Muslim travel ban. The U.S.S.C. hasn’t heard arguments yet. No, arguments won’t be heard until sometime in the fall, sometime after the 90-day ban is over. Does that sound vaguely corrupt to you? It should. Then again this is the same court that ignored the greatest ...

Michal Rozworski: Jeremy Corbyn is Prime Minister

Jun

26

2017

Looking to the UK, it definitely feels like a series of those weeks where decades happen. Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour narrowly lost but really won the election, its vote share up by the most since 1945. Corbyn himself looks more like the Prime-Minister-in-waiting than leader-of-the-opposition; “Jeremy Corbyn is Prime Minister” is now a popular dig at ...

Warren Kinsella: Erased

Jun

26

2017

Life is too short. Gord Tulk – he of the nearly-4,000-comments-does-this-guy-work – is gone, for good. This is my space, with my rules, and cheap shots championing the “free speech” rights of neo-Nazis are not welcome, particularly with lots of litigation underway. Find a new sandbox, Gordon. You have been erased. Also erased: a nutty musician ...

Wise Law Blog: 140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of June 26, 2017

Jun

26

2017

Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of June 26, 2017 from Wise Law on Twitter: US Supreme Court strikes down NC law banning sex offenders from using social networking websites Tim Hortons franchisees launch $500M class action suit against parent company Personal info of nearly 200 million U.S. voters sat exposed on a ...

Accidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links

Jun

26

2017

Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – Greg Leiseron discusses why the abject failure of Kansas’ anti-social experiment with trickle-down economics shouldn’t have come as a surprise to anybody: Claims of supply-side growth from labor income tax cuts rely on the idea that people will be more willing to work when their after-tax wages are ...

Politics and its Discontents: A Litany Of Failure

Jun

26

2017

While I normally do not read the National Post, a tweet by @trapdinawrpool about a column caught my attention. Written by Kelly McParland, the article offers an uncompromising assessment of a Liberal political landscape littered with broken promises coupled with a return to the party’s traditional arrogance. Why is this important? Because with its brilliant ...