Osgoode is hosting the annual “Public Interest Day” which is sort of a conference and career fair for people with an interest in government and public interest law. According to their web site: “Current students from Canadian Law Schools and McGill are all welcome.”
LSD-induced visions of subways
This is really cool. You can see the downtown relief line, as well as completed Eg and Sheppard lines. And a buried Queen car to boot.
Subways redux
The Star reports that the TTC has the go-ahead for the Spadina Line extension. Here is the preferred alignment. Those of you who have been up in that neck of the woods, does it seem to make sense, or are we just making a larger white elephant?
Ouch
WordPress hacked. I don’t know what version we’re running, but judging from the dates, it probably doesn’t affect us.
How to impress your jury
Stab your defence lawyer.
Dr. Ruth, sniper
Courtesy of Snopes Claim: Sexpert Dr. Ruth Westheimer served as a sniper in Israel Status: True
Not that today is a good day to talk about global warming
Global warming’s impact on your garden from Slate Magazine by Constance Casey Lilac bushes in New England have pretty steadily been blooming earlier every year for the past 30 years. One way some gardeners have begun to think about shorter winters is to say, “Hey, great, I live in Ohio [or wherever, north of thecontinue reading
Cary Tennis
… reminded me again today why the best approach to his columns is to read the letter, then the comments, and ignore his response: A very good friend of mine has apparently not invited me to her daughter’s wedding. We have been very close friends for over 10 years, and friendly for nearly 20. Icontinue reading
New model army
The front of the Star’s fashion section this morning has a feature pointing out that while fashion models are for the most part unhealthily thin, they’re also more or less uniformly white: PARIS–Skinny models are still dominating the runways of Europe, despite a furor in the media. But with all this attention on who iscontinue reading
Huts and headscarves
Interesting discussion on Macleans.ca site about the soccer headscarf incident. I believe Lawgeek walked through the Sukkot case during a dinner once. You can find it here.