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,
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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
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On single battles
There’s been plenty of press this week about the Senate’s amendments to the Cons’ odious anti-union legislation (dressed up as a private member’s bill to avoid the scrutiny that would come from honestly-labeled government legislation). And it’s certainly a plus to see C-377 delayed and amended. But it’s worth both
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Perfect
This week’s cover of The New Yorker.
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Artist Franke James Live and (Actually) Uncensored (Since, Apparently, She Refuses to Be)
In 2011, Toronto-based writer, artist and environmental activist Franke James was asked by Croatian non-profit Nektarina to go on a European tour featuring her artwork. Unsurprisingly, James agreed, only to have the tour cancelled when the Canadian embassy in Croatia withdrew funding that it denied ever giving Nektarina, and made
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: June 28: Dear editorial staff and owner of all the Irving Press – Wunnerful, Wunnerful, Wunnerful News!
You know all you editorial people, how you’ve been working so hard to give us faithful readers both sides of the shale gas debate? And how you’ve done such a good job checking with experts from the shale gas companies and from UdeMoncton? But we also know how you’ve found
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Babel backs a ballot bollix.
A year ago, there was an interesting meeting with the City Clerk in Babel. A very charming and knowledgeable person, she was generous with her time and interested in the subject of the meeting. It was about the voting system used for Babel municipal elections. It was suggested to the
Continue readingWise Law Blog: 140 Law – Legal Headlines for Friday, June 28, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Friday, June 28, 2013: BC Husband guilty in Filipina nanny human trafficking case Do you have a contingency plan in place? How broadcast networks get SCOTUS decisions: ‘The running of the interns’ Supreme Court Looks at Oklahoma Abortion Law Florida juror
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