As every news source in Canada reported the RCMP went a little Stasi in High River, Alberta today grabbing private people’s legal private guns. When our beloved Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, heard about it he told them to bring the guns right back. They said they would. Soon. What I
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s…Another Capitalist Superhero
We are currently witnessing a new golden age of the superhero genre. Since the early 2000s Hollywood has produced over fifty high-profile superhero films that have generated billions at the box office and have been embraced by a new generation of comics fans. But as I suggested last summer in
Continue readingCanadian Dimension | Articles: It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s…Another Capitalist Superhero
We are currently witnessing a new golden age of the superhero genre. Since the early 2000s Hollywood has produced over fifty high-profile superhero films that have generated billions at the box office and have been embraced by a new generation of comics fans. But as I suggested last summer in
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz Relies on Dubious Coal Tech for Obama Climate Strategy
The key takeaway from President Obama’s major climate change announcement this week was his intent to batten down on coal. But if history is any indication, the man Mr. Obama selected to run the Department of Energy may have different plans. Ernest J. Moniz has a long history of supporting
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: For Those Who Don’t Mind Gov’t Surveillance Because They Have Nothing To Hide
You might want to take a moment to read Rick Salutin’s thoughts on the implications of living in a country where environmentalists and others who oppose the government’s corporate agenda are regarded as terrorists. As well, this Canadian Dimension piece might also give you pause. Recommend this Post
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: New cell phone rules a welcome step – but more work needs to be done!
Industry Canada has created new cell phone rules in response to 56,000+ Canadians who took part in OpenMedia.ca’s Demand Choice campaign. The new rules will help stop Big Telecom from gobbling up resources that affordable indie cell phone companies need to deliver us services. This only happened because you spoke
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Rebutting Raganomics
Today, I had the following commentary posted on The Globe and Mail’s Economy Lab: The loonie is overvalued and the Bank of Canada has room to act On Tuesday, Christopher Ragan characterized the notion of an overvalued Canadian dollar as a “seductive myth” that the Bank of Canada should not
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Cowichan Digest-Stolen From the Citizen, News Leader & Times Colonist
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Summer is a lazy time in many ways, well at least it is this morning for me. I will enjoy it for now . An acre of mowing and gardening awaits as the temperatures rise and it will truly become the ‘Warm Land’ over the weekend. While
Continue readingOpenMedia.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
Continue readingthe disgruntled democrat: In America, the Rules of Empire Trump the Principles of Democracy
Once again the US procedural republic adds another padlock to the door that would lead the nation onward on the road to democracy. As has been the case over the last few years, it is the US Supreme Court that has decided to enact the rules of empire at the
Continue readingDo We Really Need To Punish Her?
Nothing in this world disturbs or terrifies me more than closing my eyes and imagining one of my children dying in a locked car in summer. I have had nightmares about this since I read an article about a woman who was supposed to drop her child off at daycare,
Continue readingbgrice blog: Do We Really Need To Punish Her?
Nothing in this world disturbs or terrifies me more than closing my eyes and imagining one of my children dying in a locked car in summer. I have had nightmares about this since I read an article about a woman who was supposed to drop her child off at daycare,
Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: Health Canada “consultation” on paid plasma less than adequate
The issue of paid plasma donations in Canada has taken a new development. It didn’t take long between the publishing of our joint letter in the Hill Times and the decision by Health Canada to solicit input on the question … Continue reading →
Continue readingBuckdog: Right Wing Think Tank Calls On Brad Wall To Privatize Publicly Owned SaskTel
When the Right wing Saskatchewan Party lost the 2003 provincial election, a seismic shift in policy was sparked within its ranks .Common wisdom in 2003 stated that the three term New Democratic government would fall. But to the surprise of most, the New Democrats triumphed and won a fourth consecutive
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Sovereignty Summer: Idle No More Launches New Website
by: Obert Madondo | @Obiemad: Idle No More protest on Parliament Hill, Ottawa. Dec 2012 (Photo: Obert Madondo) The Idle No More movement just launched a new, activism-oriented, social media-friendly website! The launch coincides with the beginning of Sovereignty Summer (#SovSummer), an education and action-based campaign focused on Indigenous Rights and in defense
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Service Providers Not Copyright Cops | Weekly News Update from OpenMedia.ca
Hello! Here’s Arielle with your update: This week, we’re discussing an important lawsuit where film studio Voltage Productions is demanding that Teksavvy Solutions, an independent ISP, hand over the private data of users that allegedly violated copyright. Service providers should not be burdened with the task of policing users’ online
Continue readingThe 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
Continue readingMorton'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
Continue readingQueer-liberal: Stephen Harper’s Conservatives take away victims’ rights by passing pro-hate speech bill
While few were looking, Stephen Harper’s Conservatives have succeeded in using the weaselly option of a backbencher’s private member’s bill to quietly gut the Canadian Human Rights Act to remove victims’ rights to fight back against hate speech in Canada. A no-name Tory MP’s private member’s bill passed the Senate
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