OpenMedia.ca: OpenMedia.ca calls new Industry Canada framework a welcome step, but clear action required to give Canadians access to affordable mobile service

Squeeze_DemandChoice_200x200_130122.jpg New rules may help address past government policy failures, but much more needs to be done to fix Canada’s broken cell phone market June 28, 2013 – OpenMedia.ca is saying that Industry Canada’s new rules on supporting affordable wireless options for Canadians are a welcome step forward, but more

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The Canadian Progressive: Obama’s Climate Action Plan a “Full-Throttle Endorsement” of Fracking: Experts

by: Institute for Public Accuracy | Press Release: STEVE HORN, @steve_horn1022: Horn is a research fellow for DeSmogBlog. He wrote yesterday: “President Obama announced his administration’s ‘Climate Action Plan‘ for cutting carbon pollution in his second term in the Oval Office at Georgetown University and unfortunately, it’s a full-throttle endorsement of every aspect

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Morton's Musings: Sufficiency of reasons

R. v. Vuradin, 2013 SCC 38 holds: [10]                          An appellate court tasked with determining whether a trial judge gave sufficient reasons must follow a functional approach:  R. v. Sheppard, 2002 SCC 26, [2002] 1 S.C.R. 869, at para. 55.  An appeal based on insufficient reasons “will only be allowed where the trial

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