Over the weekend CPAC was playing excerpts from two conferences – one on drug coverage the other on health care sustainability. The first, Rethinking Drug Coverage, was held in Ottawa May 24-25 and was co-hosted by the Canadian Health Coalition … Continue reading →
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Will Rob Ford’s troubles help the RaBIT vote?
There will be a vote coming up soon a City Hall on whether to formally recommend to Queen’s Park that Toronto would like a 2-phase timeline for bringing in Ranked Ballot, replacing the traditional first-past-the post : mayor for 2018, Council in 2022. (Of course, Council could amend to bring
Continue readingHalf an Hour: What’s Ours
As it was purchasing Tumblr, Yahoo was also quietly making changes to the Flickr photo sharing service. Flickr has been one of Yahoo’s few success stories recently, and this was the first major revision to the site in a number of years. The change came without warning, it dramatically changed
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: New CRTC Cell Phone Rules Signal The End of 3-Year Contracts
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger We all know that the big cell phone service providers have been ripping us off. Now, a few changes from the Canadian Radio Television Commission will ease the sleaze a little bit. It is a start and a needed one. Canadians are heavy users but have been
Continue readingMorton's Musings: PASSING OF THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE EDWARD W. DUCHARME
Peacefully on June 2, 2013 with loving family and friends by his side at the age of 69. Cherished husband of Carolyn Gray. Loving father of Sarah Gill. Beloved son of Wilfred (1998) and Theresa (nee Hogan- 1982). Dear brother of Richard (Ann), Cecile (1971), Sister Jane Ducharme, Patrick (Janice)
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 6095…Sen Coverup Says Coverup Stressful
That would be Conservative Senator David Tkachuk, chair of the Senate’s Internal Economy Committee, who was partly responsible for the whitewashed report on Senator Mike Duffy, Kanata – PEI. Whitewashed is a synonym for lying and we all know how stressful it is to lie. Well, lying is not super stressful; getting
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: Rafe: With NDP Loss, It’s Up to First Nations and Public to Protect Environment
I think most environmentalists are still in a state of shock over the Liberals’ victory – or more correctly, the NDP loss…A battle has been lost, although considering Adrian Dix’s waffling on environmental matters generally, perhaps the NDP would have been no better than the Liberals. It’s up to First
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: The Dissociative State of Nunavut
Dissociation can be an involuntary coping mechanism to help with an overwhelming experience such as trauma or loss. Dissociative behaviour is usually a diagnosis given to an individual, but an analysis of the state of Nunavut today suggests that it is a concept that may assist in understanding the character
Continue readingCanadian Dimension | Articles: The Dissociative State of Nunavut
Dissociation can be an involuntary coping mechanism to help with an overwhelming experience such as trauma or loss. Dissociative behaviour is usually a diagnosis given to an individual, but an analysis of the state of Nunavut today suggests that it is a concept that may assist in understanding the character
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: PEF Keynote: Neoliberalism in Quebec
The PEF marked our 15th anniversary at last weekend’s Canadian Economics Association conference in Montreal. Guillaume Hébert from the Institut de Recherche et d’Informations Socio-économiques (IRIS) delivered the following keynote address. Thanks very much to Mathieu Dufour for translating it into English. **** Thank you very much for inviting me
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 6094…Racism In Your Capital
John Hollingsworth shared this on Facebook less than 15 minutes ago. On the approach leaving Quebec to the Champlain Bridge which links Aylmer, a suburb of Hull, which is a quartier of Gatineau, to Island Park, a major road in Ottawa. For what it is worth not only is this
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: June 3: A very mixed bag…
Just back from a couple of days in PEI. Quite a revelation. I lived there for three years in my early teaching days – and hated it. This time, as I drove along its roads, I was quite taken by the high standard maintenance of its houses and grounds. Even
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Radioactive Waste From the Marcellus Shale Continues to Draw Concern
Amid all the pushback to fracking, most of the attention has focused on what drillers put into the ground. The amount of water used. The chemicals that make up energy companies’ secret mix. Whether these dangerous chemicals will contaminate our drinking water. But one of the biggest problems of fracking,
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: OpenMedia.ca welcomes new CRTC Code of Conduct reining in 3 year contracts as positive step forward for cell phone customers
New Code a starting point that begins to addresses citizen concerns on broken cell phone market OpenMedia.ca is welcoming the CRTC’s publication of its new Code of Conduct for Canadian cell phone providers. The new Code addresses restrictive three year contracts while leaving some work to do in other areas.
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: OpenMedia.ca welcomes new CRTC Code of Conduct reining in 3 year contracts as positive step forward for cell phone customers
8637598334_d8cebe642a.jpg New Code a starting point that begins to addresses citizen concerns on broken cell phone market June 3, 2013 – OpenMedia.ca is welcoming the CRTC’s publication of its new Code of Conduct for Canadian cell phone providers. The new Code addresses restrictive three year contracts while leaving some work
Continue reading350 or bust: The Obama Tar Sands Pipeline
Is the Keystone XL pipeline really what President Obama wants to leave as his legacy, for future generations to remember him by – and curse him for? * Meanwhile climate destabilization continues as unabated as our carbon dioxide emissions: Czech PM Declares Emergency As Floods Threaten Prague: Czech Prime Minister Petr
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Mike Konczal discusses the distribution of U.S. tax breaks and incentives, and finds that measures normally presented as offering breaks for everybody in fact serve mostly as giveaways to the wealthy: (T)he government is very responsive to the interests of the top 20
Continue readingWise Law Blog: 140 Law – Legal Headlines for Monday, June 3, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Monday, June 3, 2013: Lori Douglas inquiry’s new counsel wants do-ove Just how public are a public official’s files? Toronto’s Ford brothers demand apology for ‘gutter journalism’ Bradley Manning’s court-martial to start Monday Toronto Star reporter arrested, ticketed
Continue readingDefending Public Healthcare: Doctors get lion’s share of Budget funding
Forget all the government Budget rhetoric about better home care. The real winners are the docs. The Ontario Budget Estimates are out and the line item primarily covering the doctors (“Ontario Health Insurance”) is going up 2.9 per cent to $13.3 billion. The rest of the health care sector got
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