Progressive Bloggers // Blogues progressistes

Le Devoir has an interesting story this morning about the way that the methane escaping from those big dams behind hydroelectric plants in Quebec have not been figured into the greenhouse gases produced in the province. On paper, Quebec is doing not badly at all, largely because nearly all electricity

Catalyst Paper Corp. v. North Cowichan (District), 2012 SCC 2 deals with the validity of municipal bylaws. Municipalities do not have any inherent power; they are purely creatures of statute. Accordingly their bylaws must be confined to the authority given by statute. That said, the review of bylaws is to

At the Liberal Convention last weekend, the party passed a motion adding “supporters” as a class of Liberals, and allowing those Supporters to vote in their ridings for the next Liberal leader as part of our new weighted One Member One Vote system. Although there was a campaign pushing this

As you may know, the University is undertaking a redesign of mta.ca. I’m on the Web Advisory Group which is providing input to the project. I talked to the Tony Frost, my boss and contact person for the project for more information. It’s a vitally important project for the school

“Learning from experience,” the American historian Barbara Tuchman wrote, “is a faculty almost never practised.”  The truth of that claim is readily apparent in Canada. In fact, Stephen Harper is the incarnation of Tuchman’s axiom. In a report for the Centre For Policy Alternatives, David MacDonald examines three possible scenarios