Solution......

Name that airport

The decision by the Toronto Port Authority to rename the Toronto City Centre Airport after First World War flying ace Billy Bishop has understandably ruffled some feathers in Owen Sound, Ont., where a Billy Bishop Regional Airport already exists. Concern for the sensitivities of local governments is not the Port Authority's strongest suit. But the TPA board could have been even less sensitive, and named the facility the David Miller Memorial Airport after its vanquished opponent, the Toronto mayor.

May The Bird Of Paradise........

Social-In-Activists Versus Comrade Miller

• Poverty activists reject upscale housing developments in Regent Park

  June 14, 2009| ByJohn Bonnar

  
  

  "David Miller and the developers are working to gentrify this area and destroy it as a home for poor people," says OCAP. "They have similar plans for other Toronto Housing communities."

Lighter Side Of The News

Do these dummies still get their 70 virgins? "Palestinian militants accidentally set off a large blast at a Hamas training base in the central Gaza Strip on Thursday, killing two members of the violent Islamic group and wounding another, a Palestinian medical official said. Hamas initially blamed Israel for the blast, but later acknowledged that it was caused by a mishandling of explosives, saying its men died while performing a "holy mission." The Israeli military denied involvement."

Nobody Works For Free!

When I approach someone to do work for me I expect that I will pay them for their efforts but if the contractor agrees that they will go after my relatives for payment and they find that my relatives object to being a party to the agreement then the contractor has to take the hit or go after me for payment. I don't benefit from this action so why should I get involved in payment.

Same-sex survivors upset by ruling on pension case

Mar 21, 2008 04:30 AM

Tracey Tyler
LEGAL AFFAIRS REPORTER

Surviving partners of same-sex relationships are disappointed the federal government is holding up their pension cheques and has tossed up a legal roadblock that could see lawyers behind their groundbreaking class action lawsuit losing millions in legal fees.

"Nobody works for free," said Lothar Zeterberg, a retired Vancouver convenience store owner whose partner, Eric Herman, died in 1987. "They (class action lawyers) spent time and money and all the rest of it doing this, so they should be compensated. No question about that."

Zeterberg is one of an estimated 1,500 Canadians affected by a class action lawsuit. The Supreme Court ruled last year that the federal government violated the equality rights of gays and lesbians by denying Canada Pension Plan survivor benefits to those whose same-sex partners died before Jan. 1, 1998.

A spokesperson for the human resources department said 408 class members are now getting a "monthly interim payment." Pension arrears will be paid after any appeals from a Feb. 29 ruling by an Ontario Superior Court judge.

That ruling invalidated a retainer agreement approved by Ontario's Superior Court in 2004, which called for class action counsel to be paid 50 per cent of certain pension fund arrears.

But in her Feb. 29 ruling, Justice Ellen Macdonald, who had approved the arrangement, accepted arguments from federal lawyers that a section of the Canada Pension Plan invalidates the deal. The CPP provision prevents pension funds from being transferred or claimed by others. It's unclear how fees will be recouped.

Lawyers met with the judge yesterday and set aside April 29 for legal arguments on fee payments.

Where Is The Hue & Cry From Nicotinenazis

Cannabis harm worse than tobacco
A single cannabis joint could damage the lungs as much as smoking up to five tobacco cigarettes one after another, scientists in New Zealand have said




Smoking Pot Makes People More Prone to Psychosis