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Don Cherry has to be the most politically incorrect commentator I’ve ever seen. And it makes for great tv. In anticipation of his work with NBC for the rest of the Cup Finals, here are a couple classic Don Cherry moments.
Poor Ron MacLean, can’t be an easy job trying to keep Grapes in check.
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I am not arguing here in favor of Civil Gideon. I don’t know yet whether I support it or not. I am concerned that it focuses only on the indigent, when so many of the middle class cannot afford legal services either. I also don’t think that being represented by counsel is any guarantee that you’ll negotiate more effectively at the mediation table or even fare better in court–I have seen my share of unrepresented people outbargain a supposedly more sophisticated opponent with counsel, as well as people whose best interests were ignored by their lawyers. And the problem may also not be that pro se litigants are pressured to accept settlements they should not. On the contrary, I have seen pro se litigants walk away from fair settlements to defeat in court later, simply because they lacked legal advice to recognize that settlement as a fair one. And I personally would rather see this energy channeled against tort reform, before the case for a civil right to counsel becomes moot. But these are concerns well beyond the scope of this post.
I share Engler’s viewpoint with you, my colleagues, to invite us all to reflect on our role at the table. He raises questions we should stop and face.
Is our goal to settle cases? Or is it to advance justice? Perhaps we can achieve both.
But let us be careful–very careful–not to mistake the first for the second.
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Building peace through citizen media: a blogger’s call for action
Peace through citizen journalismI am sorry that my schedule won’t allow me to attend the upcoming Fifth International Forum on Online Dispute Resolution which will be held in Liverpool, England, on April 19-20, 2007. I would have liked the opportunity to meet innovative thinker and agent for progressive change, Sanjana Hattotuwa, who will be among the speakers.
Pierre McGuire, Who Died?
Between the 2nd and 3rd sets of the Rafael Nadal and Albert Montanes NBC cut to a short interview of Daniel Alfredsson with Pierre McGuire. It was possibly the worst interview I’ve ever seen, albeit a short one. For a guy who seems so loud when talking from between the benches, McGuire was so dull and monotonous that I almost wanted to change the channel, or at least mute the tv.
For the past year or so a thread on Digital Home has been discussing McGuire, as well as some other commentators. Things seem evenly split, with an almost 50-50 divide on how good McGuire is. The most interesting post was a response to how some of the commentators stacked up to each other. Moderator JohnnyCanuck felt that;