For decades, rich and famous people who felt they’d been wronged by the media tried to have their libel cases heard in Canada because our courts were so plaintiff-friendly. Journalists, whether they wrote about rock stars or their local town council, lived with libel chill: being hit with long, expensive lawsuits that were usually dropped … Read more
“Journalists are just a bunch of pimps,” a stranger in an Ottawa coffee shop told me this week. He then launched into lecture on the worthlessness of media. He didn’t read their work or listen to them. But Jody Wilson Raybould is a martyr, he said, and Jane Philpott was brave to quit the federal … Read more
But should you run into a dropping streak of 8 bets in a row, you’re looking at having to bet $640 to make up for your losses. Your expected loss remains $1.forty one, although, which successfully cuts the house edge in half, from 1.41% to zero.71%.