This past weekend caused us all to recoil in horror from the events in Newtown, Connecticut. And it didn’t take long after the mass shooting was over and the death toll was tallied that the various political commentators began to attempt to justify their vision for America (or Canada, or wherever they live). First, others …
Category Archive: The Law
Dec 01 2012
Conflicts of Interest
Recently, Toronto mayor Rob Ford has been ordered out of office by the courts due to his actions regarding the use of public funds City letterhead to raise money for a football team, and more importantly taking part in the council vote on whether or not he did anything wrong. At the trial, it was pretty …
Jul 25 2012
The problem of evil
I didn’t intend on writing about the events in Aurora, Colorado – I also wasn’t sure I could add anything to the discussion. Then I found that S.E. Cupp pretty much wrote was I was thinking: Evil is difficult to deconstruct. It’s unpredictable and manifests in unimaginable ways, often more horrifying than anything fiction could …
Aug 15 2011
Book Review: The Original Argument
The Original Argument was not, as it leads one to believe from the cover, written by Glenn Beck. It was largely compiled by Joshua Charles, a student at the University of Kansas who heard Beck’s call for some to “translate” the Federalist Papers into modern English so more people could appreciate them. As far …
Aug 07 2011
Mark Cuban on Patent Law
Mark Cuban has a very good post recommending improvements to the patent law system. While his reference is clearly the US patent system, this applies to most of the patent laws around the world, including here in Canada. I would add one more thing to Mr. Cuban’s short list of fixes. While he focuses on …
Oct 16 2010
“Multikulti” has failed
I hope that Pierre Trudeau is rolling in his grave! Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany, has openly declared: And of course, the approach [to build] a multicultural [society] and to live side-by-side and to enjoy each other… has failed, utterly failed. I have waited a long time to hear a major world leader say this. …
Feb 01 2010
On Campaign Finance
George F. Will writes and EXCELLENT column in the Washington Post and published today in the National Post. He clearly lays out why the Supreme Court of the United States was correct in it’s decision to overturn the ban on independent expenditures during elections. He puts it most clearly here: The Federal Election Commission, which …
Oct 28 2009
The slow H1N1 clinics
OK, so there is evidence across Canada of long lines at H1N1 immunization clinics, and the data thus far shows that it could take months to immunize the population at this rate. This could be accelerated significantly if you change a few rules, in the name of “public health emergency”. First, I heard on the …
Sep 16 2009
On free speech in America
I am very curious how the Supreme Court of the United States will deal with the McCain-Feingold restriction on corporate-funded (or even remotely funded) ban on election related publications, films or television. While I would never claim to be a lawyer, it would seem to me that the First Amendment to the US Constitution should …