AIG Bonus Fiasco and Congress Response
I’m sure that by now everyone is aware of the scandal about bailout recipient American International Group (AIG) paying out more than $165M (some have put the figure at over $200M) in bonuses to its…
Politics
Min. Jason Kenney Blames the Immigrants!
On Mar. 18, 2009, Hon. Jason Kenney, Min. of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism, spoke at Huron College at UWO. He spoke on a variety of subjects, but largely focused on what he perceived to be…
Cylons Invade the UN
Last night the United Nations played host to a delegation from many lightyears away. Cast members and producers of the sci fi program Battlestar Galactica — and one host of The View — attended a…
Is the AIG Bonus Scandal a Mere Distraction?
For an excellent primer on the financial crisis, watch the video below: The Obama administration is currently seeking all legal means to prevent AIG from using federal bailout money to pay $165 million in contractual…
Comfortable in a kippa or a kaffiyeh
Published in today’s Star and reproduced here at the request of the authors. Apartheid or no apartheid, what is going on across Canadian university campuses this week is not a mature and helpful way to…
U.S. War in Afghanistan
Reproduced with permission of the author, produced here at the request of a reader. HAUNTED BY BUSH’S WAR CRIMES By Michael Haas While additional American troops are being deployed to Afghanistan, George W. Bush’s misdeeds…
Is Someone Going to Kill you with a Piece of Macaroni?
Okay, I can understand banning guns, rockets, even fertilizer… but macaroni? State Department spokesman Robert Wood: Aid should never be used as a political weapon.
Rethinking Afghanistan
See the Brave New Foundation’s site and blog.
Canada’s First Fourth-Tier Law School?
As most of Canada’s larger universities now have affiliated faculties of law, it falls to younger and smaller universities to adopt legal education. Recently, Lakehead University was unsuccessful in convincing Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty that…
Proposition 8 Maps on Who Donated
With privacy issues dominating the blawgosphere this week, here is an interesting development that might raise some eyebrows. Proposition 8, which prohibited same-sex marriage in California in the last federal election in the U.S., has…
Jason Lamarche on the Insite Program
As a follow-up to the previous post on the Insite program, here is some commentary from Jason Lamarche of the Liberal Minute.
The Harm Reduction Controversy & Injection Sites
Third post in a series on the First Annual Interprofessional Health Law Conference. The harm reduction panel spoke about strategies for reducing communicable diseases. Most of the discussion focused on the controversy over injection sites….