Drop that carrot. You’re under arrest

Drop that carrot. You’re under arrest

When do your rights to return to an all you can eat salad bar? Did you know you can be arrested for salad bar abuse? We all thought COVID-19 would signal the end of the salad bar. However, these sumptuous buffets have made a resurgence. The number of establishments...
True legal library confessions: Much overdue about nothing

True legal library confessions: Much overdue about nothing

  Did I commit a crime?  If so I want to come clean. Which gets me to a book entitled The Law of Horses, Including the Law of Innkeepers, Veterinary Surgeons, &c., by a George Henry Hewitt Oliphant. Shortly after getting called to the Bar in the mid1970s, I...
Three certainties: bureaucracy, taxes and bagels

Three certainties: bureaucracy, taxes and bagels

A sudden impulse struck me recently at my nearby Sobey’s supermarket, causing me to buy a package of  bagel chips. For the uninitiated, this product consists of about one bagel or so, toasted, thinly sliced, and packaged. Unlike its one-piece version which sells...