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Two Years, and Many Thanks
I started this blog two years ago today. I didn’t really know what to expect ― whether anyone would read it, or even whether I’d keep going for very long. So its still being around, two years and 330 posts later, is a success. The readership, so far as I can tell from WordPress’s stats,… Continue reading
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Short and Tweet
OTTAWA, April 1, 2014 ― The honourable Andrew Scheer, MP, Speaker of the House of Commons has announced new rules which will henceforth limit the speeches of the members in the House to the length of a tweet ― 140 characters or less. In contrast to much recent legislation, the new rules have received an… Continue reading
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#SochiProblems
There has been a great deal of talk over the last several months about the way one ought to react to the Olympics in Sochi in light of Russia’s ban on “propaganda of homosexuality” or whatever Russian prosecutors construe as “propaganda of homosexuality.” People have, in order of decreasing glamour and increasing effectiveness, boycotted a… Continue reading
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The Best
I’m a bit late, but still on time. ‘Tis the season ― for Clawbies nominations. So here are mine: Paul Daly’s Administrative Law Matters:Don’t let the title put you off, like I did for too long. Administrative law might not sound like a very exciting thing, but that just highlights the measure of prof. Daly’s… Continue reading
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Caption Contest
The decision of the Superior Court of Ontario in McAteer v. Canada (Attorney General), 2013 ONSC 5895, upholding the constitutionality of the reference to the Queen in the citizenship oath stresses the importance of the legal distinction between the Queen as a person, and the Queen as (a symbol of) an institution. Accordingly, those who have written about… Continue reading
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Follow Me
Apologies for the lack of blogging in last couple of weeks. I was swamped, among other things by my contribution to co-writing, on short notice, a paper on the federal government’s Senate reform plans. (The paper isn’t quite ready yet, but should be soon enough, so I hope to have more to say about it… Continue reading
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Risk and Reward
I wrote recently about whether scholarship (in philosophy and in other areas, such as law) can make a difference, and whether this matters. As it happens, PrawfsBlog has been running an interesting series of interviews with scholars whose work has been cited by the US Supreme Court, asking them, among other things, what they thought… Continue reading
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Why Bother?
Does research in philosophy make the world a better place, beyond the pleasure it gives one? There was an interesting discussion on this topic on the Leiter Reports (in the comments). Though I’m two weeks late to the party, it’s worth saying a few words about it. Although the discussion there focused on philosophy, I… Continue reading
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Happy Birthday, Double Aspect!
My blog is a year old! (A year and a day actually.) As I wrote in my 100th post, “[o]n the whole, I would rate this blogging adventure as a time-consuming success.” Despite occasional periods of delinquency, I’ve produced just over 200 posts during that time. If I worked on my dissertation at this pace,… Continue reading
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The End of Supremacy
This just in from DOJ: OTTAWA, April 1, 2013 – The Honourable Rob Nicholson, P.C., Q.C., M.P. for Niagara Falls, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, today announced important changes in the organization of the Canadian Judiciary. The Harper government will immediately introduce legislation to restore appeals to the Judicial Committee of the Privy… Continue reading
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