The Divisional Court of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice has overturned Justice Hackland’s ruling in Magder v. Ford.
For a summary of the case see Slaw.
Magder v. Ford, 2013 by
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The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 25,000 views in 2012. If each view were a film, this blog would power 6 Film Festivals Click here to see the complete report. It has been eight years since i started this blog, basically as a way of trying to figure out how to develop and explore some political ideas and perhaps also deal with a period of political and personal isolation i was going through. It “worked”, and provided a space not only to try and figure some things out, to record things i would otherwise have forgotten, and to try and elaborate a set of political reference points. It has been a nice complement to what at the time was the more business-oriented kersplebedeb.com site i also run. Of course, . . . → Read More: Sketchy Thoughts: Eight Years of Sketchy Thoughts then get serious about blogging. From the Harvard Business Review: Writing is still the clearest and most definitive medium for demonstrating expertise on the web. But as thought leaders like Gary Vaynerchuk have shown with video blogging and fellow HBR blogger Mitch Joel with podcasting (i.e., audio blogging), as long as your content is rich and thoughtful, you can still build up a massive following and reputation regardless of your channel. In an information-hungry world, there will always be a need for expert content. And there will always be more readers and "retweeters" than there will be The world suffered a tragedy when a gun man went and killed 20 students and 6 adults. The world was made worse when out of this horror people called others whackos and nuts for merely having a different opinion. A tragedy should make us try to be better not worse. As some of you may have noticed – those kind few of you who may still check in here – Sketchy Thoughts has been somewhat comatose for the past months (!), and not for the first time. A while back, Nate, over at the What In the Hell blog, enumerated som… . . . → Read More: Sketchy Thoughts: Getting Back to the Blog? BigCityLib asked about this last month. I’ve put forth an inquiry to someone I know up in Toronto Liberal HQ about whether the access that the NDP provided us bloggers (of all political stripes) will be replicated at the Ontario Liberal Party Con… . . . → Read More: Scott’s DiaTribes: Ontario Liberal Party Convention: blogging opportunities? So you are thinking about starting a blog. Great! Before you go any further, go vote for SRBP as the Best Political Blog in Canada. There are a couple of days left in the final voting. Go back again tomorrow and the day after. Lives could depe… . . . → Read More: The Sir Robert Bond Papers: 10 Things for First Time Blog Writers #nlpoli
I would blog today if I could think of something to blog about, and I would have blogged yesterday too if I could have thought of something to blog about. It seems I have reached the bottom of the blogging barrel. I assume it’s just temporary, but time will tell. So, while I’m waiting for the ideas to start flowing again, let’s play Ask Me Anything. I’ve seen this on a few other blogs. I seem to recall that XUP used this method to generate blogging ideas to sustain her through NaBloPoMo (National Blog Posting Month, in which one commits . . . → Read More: knitnut.net: Ask me anything I was interviewed by the folks at Progress Planet which you can read here. Topics include why I blog, what my goals are, and how to achieve world peace! The interview compliments an overview I wrote at the start of the year about this blog and its goals: My blog: Reviewing 2011, Previewing 2012 Frankly, none. But never bite the hand that feeds you I say, particularly when it feeds you ripe fruit and vegemite sandwiches. This rule applies doubly for evil galactic overlords between gigs. (And yes, the first continent to be occupied … Continue reading → … I’m NOT at work today so if you see more than the usual number of posts popping up on this site today and tomorrow, it is NOT because I am blogging on work time. Rather, I am at work resting a very sore body that I somehow made very angry at me yesterday at [...] So, I haven’t posted in a few months, almost 6 to be exact. I don’t believe that this is the end of my blogging adventure. I take hiatuses for various reasons, personal, content, even then I have 10 different unfinished posts in the past 12 months that I feel are not up to the level of quality that I consider worth of writing. When I first started writing, I was inspired by Hunter S Thompson, and his novels and stories about American election campaign, written in a cutting fashion, with bourbon soaked stories about George McGovern. I needed a creative . . . → Read More: Confessions of a Liberal Mind: Explaining COALM and blogging hiatuses Noted in the Globe, this headline is, shall we say, a little misleading in the Canadian context: “Why don’t political bloggers want us to know who’s funding them?”The vast majority of Canadian political bloggers receive bupkus for blogging. It is simply not the case that there are bloggers actively denying information on who is funding them for that reason. At least in Canada and as far as I know. This report seems to bounce from group to group though and conflate it all under the header’s misleading pointing of the finger at political bloggers. The author mentions charities . . . → Read More: Impolitical: Financial disclosure for bloggers and others Here I was planning to post on multitude of topics, including some stuff on breastfeeding, restraints, the duty to care, more twists and turns in the Amanda Trujillo case, the usual CVSaturday poem and Friday night short film, and I even had a wicked April Fools’ joke to launch on Sunday. Life gets in the way. In in this case it is a family medical emergency which is going to be consuming my time over the next few days. There there won’t be any new posts until Monday at the very earliest, and maybe not even then. I’ll see you . . . → Read More: Those Emergency Blues: Best Laid Plans of Mice and Bloggers I had given up on blogging and then I dabbled with it for a bit, off an on. The reasons for leaving are complicated,… various events in the blogosphere sour my taste for it,… certain events in my life just made me loose interest in the task,… And then, when I finally thought I was out, the big pile of dead stupid (aka The Harper Government) pulled me back in. When I first heard about RoboCon, I figured, “mhah, just the usual bs from Ottawa” Then the evidence started to mount. So ok, one firm case in Guelph, . . . → Read More: The Wingnuterer: I was out, finished! and I took an arrow to the knee I do not have the time to read regularly all the blogs to which I have established links, on my own blog. As a result, sometimes months go by without me reading them, and when I finally decide to catch up, I find out that they no longer exist, or that they have not been [...] … this was not a mistake. Starting a land war in Asia is a mistake. This is akin to wearing a meat tuxedo and gravy-scented aftershave to a wolverine convention. ‘via Blog this’ Canadian Cynic and Rev. Paperboy discuss legal strategy. It saddens me that CC’s return to the blogosphere is only temporary and instrumental, but I’ll take the laffs any way I can. Related posts: How do we help poor Sarah Grunfeld? All this Catholic-school business reminds me of a Mel Brooks moment Re Brigette DePape: I will now eat my words It looks like Cowboys for Social Responsibility is riding off into the sunset. Blasted, another good blogger leaves the Canadian political scene. CSR was the go-to place for analysis on all things to do with the gun registry and, in the larger context, gun control issues, in recent years. Their blogging will be missed. Thanks for all you did, pal! There’s a case going on in Fredericton, New Brunswick that deserves some attention: “Fredericton blogger's arrest attack on civil liberties.” This blogger, Charles LeBlanc, who blogs here, was arrested last week on charges of criminal libel. His computer was seized in the course of a search warrant execution. Here’s a good overview of the entire mess: Note the legalities as described near the end of the video. I don’t know how many online defamation suits there are in Canada at the moment but it is an extraordinary thing to be charged criminally for it and to have one’s The Sir Robert Bond Papers turns seven years old today. The purpose remains simple enough, as described in the first anniversary post: While much has changed in the past year, the core goal for the Bond Papers is still the same: to contribute to an informed discussion of public policy issues. It started with the offshore and in the first few weeks that proved to be the issue that dominated. Since then, there have been posts on everything from the fishery to alleged spy planes flying through Newfoundland and Labrador, Titan missiles and economic development. Some posts are light-hearted and . . . → Read More: The Sir Robert Bond Papers: SRBP at Seven #nlpoli #cdnpoli Following in the custom of New Years, I take a look at the past year for this blog and set some goals for the coming year. Almost necessarily, this results in something of a broader look at blogging in general, webpage design, and my place in the broader blogosphere and political arena. Technically, this blog is a little over two years old. However, regular posting didn’t start until September 2010 and so this is more of a review of the last 16 months opposed to the last 12 months. Since that time, I have written over 250 posts usually posting every . . . → Read More: Progressive Proselytizing: My blog: Reviewing 2011, Previewing 2012 The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 29,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 11 sold-out performances for that many [...] Well, not just the Sir Robert Bond Papers but all bloggers. Idiots. - srbp - |
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eaves.ca: Teach to Do – Lessons from Louise Glück
Somewhere along the lines I remember learning the line “those who cannot do, teach.” I’m sure there are many instances where this is true, it’s just not what I remember when I think of the great teachers I have had, or my own experience.
Part of this crystallized for me a couple of weeks ago when I had the pleasure of being part of the Academy of Achievement Summit. Of the numerous, insanely gifted people who came and spoke, one was Louise Glück – a poet and former poet laureate of the United States.
After her brief presentation and reading she said
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