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Continue readingDeSmogBlog: The Classroom Climate Battle: A New Heavy Hitter Joins the Fray
Teacher-writing-on-blackb-007.jpg For a year now, I’ve been covering the growing fight over the teaching of accurate climate science in American classrooms. The conflict is being driven by politics, of course, but also by the fact that school districts are, increasingly, bringing information about global warming into the educational curriculum—leading, inevitably,
Continue readingCritical Brain Candy: Bob Rae for the Liberal Leadership
I’ve never understood why there was a supposed agreement that Rae wouldn’t run for the leadership. Doesn’t that seem a bit un-democratic? I have no idea if him running would be a good thing, but if he ran and won, who should argue with that?
Continue readingCuriosityCat: The half-bold, half-timid Liberal Party Convention
There are three primary lessons from this Convention. First, the Liberal Party of Canada is well on the way to a renewal that will stun Stephen Harper (who believes he has hammered in the final nail on its coffin with the elimination of direct public political party funding), and disconcert
Continue readingBut Mitt Romney is the moderate one
Palling around with white supremacists? Hey, call it outreach. The GOP is a big tent! [H/t SherryBGood via deBeauxOs]
Continue readingthe woodshed: Oh the weather outside is frightful…
and I don’t have a goddamn fireplace to curl up in front of with a good book while it drizzles outside (Rain? in January? in Canada? Are you shitting me? There ought to be a foot-and-a-half of snow outside by now at least, not this filthy mud.) So I decided
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: Lula: Son of Brazil
In the press notes for “Lula: Son of Brazil,” screenwriter Denise Paraná, upon whose biography (originally a PhD dissertation) the script is based, advises: “This is not a political film but a human story about overcoming great odds.” Just so everybody gets the picture, director Fabio Barreto replies as follows
Continue readingThe Enlightened Savage: Leadership in Calgary-Fish Creek
On Saturday, January 14th, my team of dedicated volunteers (whom have dubbed themselves the “O-Team”) and I spent the daylight hours knocking on every door we could find, blanketing 2 communities in Calgary-Fish Creek. I heard a lot of good ideas and strong opinions. About health care. Policing. Seniors care.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Repetition for effect
Since Aaron Wherry has rightly connected the NDP’s response to Lise St-Denis’ floor-crossing to its efforts to engage constituents on other issues, I may as well offer a similar bit of reiteration. So here’s what I had to say last time it was noted that the NDP was working on
Continue readingDarkness falls.
If you want a canuck badge, feel free. <a href="http://americancensorship.org/"><img src="http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p222/Thereal_pale/SOPA.gif”width=400"width=225 /></a> This SOPA thing that has been mostly ignored by the corporate media (some of us would say on purpose, because it seems that many of the big US corporations that run the show are in support of
Continue readingMorton's Musings: No rule that a breaching fiduciary employee must, in all circumstances, be denied compensation in respect of the period of wrongdoing
Mady v. Rossetto, 2012 ONCA 31 holds that a breach of fiduciary duty does not, in itself, disentitle a fiduciary to payment for employment income including bonuses: (2) General principles governing fiduciary relief [18] Fiduciary relief is equitable in nature. The remedies for breach of fiduciary duty are discretionary. They are "dependent
Continue readingThe David Hahn 400…Gone But Not Forgotten.
AllTheCutsThatFit RunFerryRunVille Remember when David Hahn tried to cut sailings rather than executive salaries (and not just his own) to cut the ballooning deficit he and his created? Well, it would appear, based on an the docs released by FOI Request by Peter Ladner’s Business in Vancouver, that he was
Continue readingStaffroom Confidential: School boards discuss ‘net zero’
At least two School Boards discussed motions last night to ask the BC government to bring a new mandate to the provincial bargaining table with teachers. Teachers are seeking increases to keep up with inflation and to catch up with other provinces in Canada. The government has refused to discuss
Continue readingNDP dirty tricks?
What dirt? What tricks? Newly-minted Liberal Lise St-Denis is getting unwelcome phone traffic. Quebec’s Liberal mouthpiece, Denis Coderre, thinks he sees a chance to tar the NDP with the Conservative (US Republican) playbook. Robocalls were made to constituents asking if they were pleased with St-Denis’ jump. And if they weren’t,
Continue readingThe Equivocator: Kyle Peterson: A Biennial Unlike Others
Kyle Peterson (Past candidate, Newmarket-Aurora.) Although I had been to umpteen LPC events since I first joined the Liberal Party in September 1990 at the campus of the University of Western Ontario (where, incidentally, I came to know our new President, Mike Crawley), I was particularly excited about this Biennial.
Continue readingFar and Wide: Marijuana: Liberal Canary In Coal Mine
An overwhelming majority, 77% of committed Liberal delegates voted to legalize marijuana. As well, if you do the math on the demographic delegate breakdown, you’ll find that even if one assumes every young Liberals voted in favour, you are still left with almost 2/3rds of the remaining delegates in favour.
Continue readingJimBobby Sez: Enbridge lobbied 23 MPs, 3 deputy ministers, 1 chief of staff & other public office holders
(Reprinted from Lobby Monitor Newsletter)Enbridge did fall lobbying blitzJanuary 12, 2012 – 9:22am | Lobby Monitor Staff In-house lobbyists with Enbridge, the Calgary-based energy company behind the controversial Northern Gateway Pipeline, lobbied 23 MPs, three deputy ministers, one chief of staff and other designated public office holders this fall, communication
Continue readingJimBobby Sez: Enbridge lobbied 23 MPs, 3 deputy ministers, 1 chief of staff & other public office holders
(Reprinted from Lobby Monitor Newsletter)
Enbridge did fall lobbying blitz
January 12, 2012 – 9:22am | Lobby Monitor Staff
In-house lobbyists with Enbridge, the Calgary-based energy company behind the controversial Northern Gateway Pipeline, lobbied 23 MPs, three deputy ministers, one chief of staff and other designated public office holders this fall, communication reports filed with the Office of the Commissioner of Lobbying show.
Registrations filed with the commissioner’s office have Patrick Daniel, Enbridge’s president and CEO, listed as the responsible officer for the firm’s in-house lobbying. D’Arcy Levesque, the vice president of public and government affairs, and Sonya Savage, the senior manager of government relations, are identified as the two company officials whose lobbying activities represent 20 per cent or more of their duties.
A communication report does not specify which officials did the lobbying, or if the communication was face-to-face or by telephone.
The registration says Enbridge officials were to lobby on “bills (such as C-606 “An Act to amend the Canada Shipping Act, 2001 (Prohibition against the transportation of oil by tankers on Canada’s Pacific North Coast) – measure or area of interest is the proposed ban on oil tanker traffic.”
It also noted there could be “discussions regarding the development of a national energy strategy and the approach to opening new markets for natural resources” and that the company would be “seeking improved efficiencies in the environmental assessment processes.”
One communication shows Enbridge lobbied 22 MPs, all of them Conservative, at once. Another communication shows Enbridge’s in-house lobbyists lobbied Louis Levesque, deputy minister of international trade at Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada. Michael Wernick, deputy minister at Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada and Michael Horgan, a deputy minister at the finance ministry, were also lobbied, according to two separate communications.
Enbridge is also working with outside consultants, the registry showed. Ensight Canada’s Jacquie LaRoque, Gregory Kolz and Robin Sears are registered to lobby the House of Commons and the Senate on behalf of the company.
Continue readingJimBobby Sez: Enbridge lobbied 23 MPs, 3 deputy ministers, 1 chief of staff & other public office holders
(Reprinted from Lobby Monitor Newsletter)Enbridge did fall lobbying blitzJanuary 12, 2012 – 9:22am | Lobby Monitor Staff In-house lobbyists with Enbridge, the Calgary-based energy company behind the controversial Northern Gateway Pipeline, lobbied 23 MPs, three deputy ministers, one chief of staff and other designated public office holders this fall, communication
Continue readingThe Equivocator: Bryan Bondy: Sorry Seems To Be The Easiest Word
Bryan Bondy (Delegate from Perth-Wellington.) Somewhere out there in the great yonder of the Internet, someone has made the statement, or something close to it, that the Liberal Party of Canada needs to embrace change and listen to grassroots values as it engages ordinary Canadians in rebuilding (and then something
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