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Flight policy change called a risky manoeuvre A new safety approach aimed at getting airlines to police themselves could endanger passengers, particularly those flying with smaller airlines, aviation experts warn. In 2005, Transport Canada began changing over to a system that critics say essentially leaves airlines to regulate themselves, instead of primarily relying on federal inspectors to oversee airplane safety as they had before. Read that story to the end and see if it doesn’t remind you a lot of the changes involving the Canadian Food Inspection Agency a few years ago. This is from the Wikipedia article on the listeriosis outbreak in 2008: On the federal political level, there was a debate on the privatization of food inspection. A cabinet document leaked earlier in the year outlined a plan to save money at the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) by shifting federal meat inspectors into an oversight role and leaving companies to implement their own methods. 22 people died in that outbreak. We seem to have to keep learning the same lessons over and over again….

Yesterday it was the wider net of a primary system, today the internal dynamics of the Liberal Party. There is nothing more counter-productive in my mind than the “fiefdom” mentalities that exist within the Liberal Party. The way the party is currently…

This past Tuesday, the voters in Ohio told their state legislature that they have had enough. In response to a law enacted with the help of the wealthy Koch Brothers that essentially stripped all collective bargaining rights for public-sector workers, …

 Stand in downtown Toronto, walk 20 klicks in any direction, and you’ll find people making money, doing business, and contributing to the Canadian economy in a multitude of different ways.  Stand downtown in your town and walk 20 klicks, and you’ll …

Bob Rae gave a big speech on the economy
yesterday, full of pretty familiar points about EI premiums and refundable tax
credits, and not being made to choose between the Tea Party and the Occupiers.
He did say some new things about the need…

Question: How do you get 200 high-ranking government officials to attend your farewell party?

Answer: Advise all government ministries that a "special meeting" is being called regarding communications of the Federal government. Tell them that all top officials are expected to attend and for the love of God, do not, I repeat, DO NOT tell them that Dimitri Soudas will be there or that this meeting

TheForgottenQuadrantSouthBySouthEastVilleAfter the 2008 Civic Election results came in we were struck by how the City of Vancouver has come to vote not East-West but rather diagonally from NorthWest to SouthEast (see map above, which shows the GreenGre…