Archive for Karen Selick
Socialism of the Spirit
Obesity is approaching epidemic proportions in Canada, studies tell us. Predictably, some busybodies have started promoting the idea of a “fat tax” on snack foods such as chips and cookies, comparable to the “sin taxes” currently imposed on alcohol and tobacco. A surprising percentage of the population seems willing to entertain this idea. According to [...]
27Jun2010 | Karen Selick | 2 comments | ContinuedThere’s No Such Thing as a Nonprofit Organization
Karen Selick is a lawyer in Belleville, Ontario. Copyright 2003 by Karen Selick. “Four legs good, two legs bad,” chanted the sheep in Orwell’s 1945 satire Animal Farm. In Canada today the people are chanting something slightly different: “Non-profit good, profit bad.” Take Medicare, for instance. A recent widely publicized, government-commissioned report (the Romanow report) [...]
1Jun2003 | Karen Selick | 2 comments | ContinuedThe Unseen Costs of Disability Laws
Karen Selick is an attorney in Ontario, Canada, and a columnist for Canadian Lawyer, on which this article is based. Her Web site is www.karenselick.com. Copyright 2000. I first heard of Frédéric Bastiat on graduating from high school, when someone who knew of my plans to become a lawyer gave me a copy of his [...]
1Jun2001 | Karen Selick | 0 comments | ContinuedPlain Vanilla Liberty
Karen Selick is an attorney in Ontario, Canada, and a columnist for Canadian Lawyer. Her Web site is www.karenselick.com. Copyright 2000. The Ontario Court of Appeal made headlines, and rightly so, when it decided recently that epileptic Terry Parker has a constitutional right to use marijuana as medicine. While this was a big step forward [...]
1May2001 | Karen Selick | 0 comments | ContinuedThey’re Just Dying to Be Rescued
Karen Selick is an attorney and a columnist for Canadian Lawyer. Copyright 2000. Belleville, Ontario, Canada—Why don’t abused women want to defend themselves? Three times within the past year, and many times previously, I have been consulted in matrimonial cases by women who have told credible and terrifying stories of violence, stalking, and death threats [...]
1Dec2000 | Karen Selick | 0 comments | ContinuedSocialized Medicine: One Size Fits None
Karen Selick is an attorney in Ontario and a columnist for Canadian Lawyer. Copyright © 1999 by Karen Selick. Ontario, Canada—Andrew Sawatzky, an elderly Manitoba man whose wife went to court to fight the “Do Not Resuscitate” order placed on his hospital chart, is probably part of a fairly small minority. His wife says he [...]
1Aug1999 | Karen Selick | 0 comments | ContinuedA Program the Borg Would Love
Karen Selick is a practicing attorney in Ontario and a columnist for Canadian Lawyer. Ontario, Canada—Suppose you’re out for a stroll one evening. A scruffy-looking stranger approaches you and says, “Hand over all your valuables, and make it snappy.” “Is this a stickup?” you gasp, stupidly. “Why, no,” says the stranger, “it’s merely the result [...]
1Feb1999 | Karen Selick | 0 comments | ContinuedLet’s Pierce the Government Veil
Karen Selick is an attorney in Ontario, Canada, and a columnist for Canadian Lawyer. Copyright © 1998 by Karen Selick. Ontario, Canada—Although multiple births are becoming almost commonplace in the 1990s, quintuplets were considered a miracle in 1934 when the Dionne sisters were born in a small northern Ontario town. Their father, a poor farmer [...]
1Jan1999 | Karen Selick | 0 comments | ContinuedThere’s Some Good in Gouging
Karen Selick is an attorney in Ontario, Canada, and a columnist for Canadian Lawyer The great ice storm of January 1998 left millions of residents of Quebec and eastern Ontario in Canada (and in the northeastern United States) without electrical power, some for several weeks. The storm itself was unprecedented, but it brought with it [...]
1Apr1998 | Karen Selick | 0 comments | Continued-
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