Public sector job growth outpaces private in NL
From labradore: In the five years since the recent-historic low, in early 2006, of about 55,600 public-sector employees, the public-sector labour force has increased by about 11,500 or over 20%.…
July 2011
Montreal
April and I showed up in Montreal yesterday afternoon, after a few nights in Ottawa. While in the capital, we toured Parliament, and I saw Elizabeth May’s desk, tucked away…
The Disaster That Is Afghanistan
This week's slaying of Ahmad Wali Karzai, brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai and a warlord/mobster with extensive power in Southern Afghanistan is a reminder that NATO and the Americans…
Rob Ford: Bad math and police layoffs
Layoffs loom for police and city staff - thestar.comBack in May 2011, Rob Ford gave the Toronto Police a big raise. Now, he wants to lay them off. The need…
Now don’t slam me for saying this!
The Heritage robot, James Moore, has said that the CBC isn’t immune to Strategic and Operating Review cuts – and this has the Twittersphere et al squawking mightily. While I…
Dion’s Articulate Response to Half-Assed Senate Reform
You know Stephane Dion is back in his game when he puts out this substantive argument against Harper's brand of half-assed Senate reform:Stephen Harper’s Act would go against the interests…
Now that’s leadership!
Saskatoon city council has boldly gone where politicians always go to cut budgets -- they're grinding a few more dollars out of the poor: The largest decision made Tuesday was…
Stephane Dion Versus Andrew Coyne (And Me) On Senate Reform
As far as substance goes, Stephane Dion's op-ed on the Government's Senate reform package is unassailable. As a political document, however, it leaves a lot to be desired.The Liberal's Intergovernmental…
Assault not a lesser and included offence for Conspiracy to Assault
R. v. Shi, 2011 ONCA 515 deals with the issue of "lesser and included" offences. The issue often causes problems. To be clear and offence is "lesser and included" if it must form…
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INTERNATIONAL POLITICS BAHRAIN:TELL US WOMEN'S WORLD CUP PLAYERS TO SUPPORT THEIR FELLOW PLAYERS IN BAHRAIN:As this is being written the US Team at The Women's World Football Cup has advanced…
$16.8 million in arts funding goes to BC Arts Council
Last Thursday, July 7, BC’s Minister of Community, Sport and Cultural Development, Ida Chong, announced $16.8 million in funding for the arts, to be administered through the BC Arts Council.…
Watts Up With the Internet? Motivated Bias on Climate Skeptic Blogs
Disconfirmation-Model.gif Recently, I’ve become aware that the prominent climate science skeptic blogger Anthony Watts has been challenging a number of my posts. Maybe it's because in ...
trials of a student librarian: in which i confess to practicing my alphabet
In addition to writing a large portion of the final report for the "Private Eyes" research project, I've been stressing over something else - something I decided not to share,…
Ontario NDP vs. the environment
Hard hitting piece from the David Suzuki foundation on the NDP playing political games with the environment:http://www.davidsuzuki.org/blogs/climate-blog/2011/07/the-ontario-ndp-platform-politics-trump-good-energy-policyagain/?fb_ref=top&fb_source=...
BREAKING: Rupert throws in towel
The BBC has just reported, as I am writing this, that Rupert Murdoch and his News Corporation is giving up its bid for total control of BSkyB (he presently has…
Not much to see
The Telegram’s Russell Wangersky looked ahead to the fall election and didn’t like what he saw. Wangersky’s assessment is brutal but it is accurate. The Liberals: “When someone who isn't…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your midweek reading.- Stephen Gordon weighs in again on the Cons' census disaster:Many readers may have thought that the census issue was settled last summer; it wasn’t.…
How The Harper Government Defines Efficiency At The CBC
While it will likely come as no surprise to many, the Harper Government has within its sights the CBC, the sometimes irksome public broadcaster that the right-wing so often loves…
A clever move in a broken political game
The "negotiations" surrounding raising the debt limit in the United States is a particularly poignant example of the oh-too-funny-if-not-so-serious circus of partisan, brinkmanship showboating that dominants so much of American…
Outrage over Turcotte acquittal is misplaced
BY JAMES MORTON, OTTAWA CITIZEN JULY 12, 2011 Recent cases in Canada and the United States have caused an uproar because parents apparently guilty of murdering their children have been…