The International Court of Justice and the Western Tradition of International Law: The Paul Martin Lectures in International Relations and Law (Lega)
CalgaryGrit (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
Flaherty to axe subsidies to political parties in fiscal update: sources The Conservatives are poised to eliminate the public subsidies that Canada's five major political parties receive, a move that would save $30 million a year but could cripple the opposition. Sources told CBC News and other media outlets Wednesday that the subsidy cut is one of the key elements of the fiscal update that Finance...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Conference delegates told that councils should be encouraged by the government to set aside their caution and be brave when commissioning public services from outside the mainstream Can social enterprise break into the mainstream provision of public services? Yes, the Guardian conference heard, but commissioners in local government and the NHS will need practical encouragement from ministers and the...
New York Supreme Court Criminal Ter (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Source: NLJ.com, November 23, 2009. Subscription required for online access: http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/subscribe.jsp Judge Says He Won't Hear Cases of Released Guantanamo Detainees "A federal judge last week dismissed suits by four former Guantanamo Bay detainees whose lawyers had continued pressing their habeas cases despite the fact that the men had already been released to other countries."...
The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Paul Martin, formerly of the Justice Department, is re-launching his career. Sort of. Martin was confirmed by the Senate on Friday as the inspector general for NASA. Since 2003, Martin had been Justice’s deputy inspector general, serving under Inspector General...
Full Comment (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
The Prime Minister's relations (or lack thereof) with the Ottawa press gallery has once again got the gallery worked up. The Toronto Star got all exercised after Mr. Harper gave a speech on Saturday extolling press freedom, then failed to take questions from reporters. (Note to Star: "Freedom of the press" isn't synonymous with having regular press conferences with the prime minister. Freedom...
Full Comment (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Who says the Tories can’t do ethno-politics? Throughout the Chrétien and Martin years, the Liberals had a lock on urban ethnic constituencies. Sikhs, Jews, Tamils, Somalians, Ukrainians, Arabs: The Liberal Party’s urban machines were staffed by a tightly corralled rainbow coalition recruited and programmed at mosques, temples and community centres. On election day, the Tories and...
The Maple Three (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
This is what Janine Krieber got right 1) Igantieff has been an unmediated disaster. 2) The rot goes well beyond Ignatieff. 3) Paul Martin was a cancer. Now this is what she got wrong. 1) Love is blind. It is obvious to all but the two of them that Stephen Dion does not have the ability to rebuild the party. His English is not good enough. He never had the support of the caucus or even the party base....
Southern Rockies Nature Blog (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Image from BBC News. A study of pollen in mammoth and other megafaunal dung offers more evidence for the climate-versus-overkill debate. Frankly, I wonder why anyone is talking about asteroids at this point. Was that the reporter's confusion? "Overkill" refers to the theory that the arrival of humans—in this case, in North America—led to a fairly rapid extinction of big, slow...
Britannia Radio (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Climategate - The Global Warming Fraud RevealedPosted on Nov 21, 2009 by Paul Martin in Conspiracy, Government Evil, Keep Your Eye On, Media Lies | 0 CommentsClimategate: the final nail in the coffin of ‘Anthropogenic Global Warming’?By James DelingpoleTelegraphUKNovember 20th, 2009If you own any shares in alternative energy companies I should start dumping them NOW. The conspiracy behind...
The Daily Record (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
RAGING Paul Martin insisted his stuttering Rovers should have been awarded a last-gasp spot-kick as they were held to a frustrating point.
Full Comment (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Stephen Harper has now served longer as a minority prime minister than any of his predecessors except Lester B. Pearson, a PM who was only three or four seats short of a majority. Pearson left office in 1968. And times have changed since then. While Harper is dealing with the venomous hedgehog of the separatist Bloc Québécois, Pearson had to contend with the bizarre, but crypto-federalist,...
ajc.com (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
When The Atlanta Journal-Constitution learned that Paul Martin Sr. of Adel had been wounded at Fort Hood, editors told reporter Ralph Ellis to drive 3-1/2 hours and find out how the little town in South Georgia was taking the news.
S E N A T U S (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Senators have unanimously confirmed the following nominees to serve in President Obama’s Administration: Paul Martin to be Inspector General of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration James Hudson to be United States Director of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Jose Fernandez to be an Assistant Secretary of State (Economic, Energy, and Business Affairs) Frederick...
Full Comment (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
It's the cover-up that kills In which Canadians yet again prove their infinite capacity to be amazed that Afghanistan is a really horrible place. The Toronto Star ’s editorialists are well scandalized by Richard Colvin’s “bombshell” allegations of torture and cover-ups of torture in Afghanistan. Now, don’t get us wrong — this is big, bad news. But we’re not...
CalgaryGrit (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Everyone went list-crazy in 1999, but the end of the aughts is fast approaching with little fanfare or retrospective. So, since this December figures to be a lot less interesting than the last, this is the perfect time for a Calgary Grit mini-contest. So, what I want from everyone are suggestions for the “top Canadian political moment of the decade”. You can define that however you see...
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