Man Must Still Pay Alimony Despite Lesbian Ex's Domestic Partnership

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge has ordered a man to continue paying alimony to his ex-wife — even though she’s in a registered domestic partnership with another woman and even uses the other woman’s last name.
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Enforcing Rules For Capitalists

Canadians have read and heard much about the Conrad Black trial, but many missed an important point. That being: Would the former media baron and his co-defendants have been prosecuted with the same vigour here as we saw in the court in Chicago?

We'll see the role of the Canadian system in November when charges from the Ontario Securities Commission are heard.

We supposedly live next door to the land of "hard capitalism," but past cases leave us wondering if our misbehaving fat cats get away with more than theirs do.

A report entitled Corporate Governance in Canada and the United States: A Comparative View, produced by the Canada Institute of Washington's Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, suggests just that.

The report discusses the Sarbanes-Oxley Act passed by the U.S. Congress in reaction to major corporate scandals of recent years. That legislation, which Canada lacks, provided clarity about responsibilities of top corporate people and penalties for non- compliance.

The report faults the "highly fragmented system in Canada -- with multiple provincial and territorial securities regulators, federal financial institution regulators, provincial and federal corporate laws, enforcement authorities at all three levels of government .

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Chinese In Newfoundland

Members of the Newfoundland-Chinese community welcome the Chinese General Consul to Newfoundland outside the Nickel Theatre in St. John’s in 1938. Image courtesy of the Centre for Newfoundland Studies Archives.

“City or town or village, East or West, from British Columbia to Cape Breton, the heathen Chinee has invaded, and by him the washing industry throughout the continent is monopolized. And now two sons of the flowery kingdom have come by the Polino from Montreal to Newfoundland. …Have they come to stay?”
– The Daily News, Aug. 18, 1895.

“The first attempt to restrict Chinese nationals from immigrating to Newfoundland occurred during the 1904 session of the Newfoundland legislature, when the member for Bay St. George, W.R. Howley, introduced a bill to prohibit their entry. Referring to Chinese labour in the United States, Canada, Australia, and South Africa, Howley argued that the introduction of Chinese into these societies had created chaos… Howley’s proposal was defeated. However, two years later, government legislation imposed a $300.00 head tax on each Chinese immigrant entering Newfoundland.”
– “Newfoundland’s 1906 Chinese Head Tax”, Robert G Hong.