Unimpressed with the CBC’s explanations regarding its financial accountability and handling of access to information requests, Conservatives indicate they may look at amending a law that exempts the broadcaster from…
Hubert Lacroix says the CBC’s record on accountability and access to information has been lost in general confusion or distorted in coverage of its court case against Canada’s information commissioner.
The CRTC is telling two francophone radio stations that they must limit their use of musical montages, which can be used towards a regulated broadcaster’s Canadian content or French-language vocal…
The access-to-information and ethics committee agreed to return sealed documents to the CBC rather than press ahead with a proposal by Conservative MPs to examine the sensitive material.
With a report by Ezequiel Adamovsky It’s hard to create a community based on love and compassion in the middle of a society based on greed and fear. The hippies…
The Financial Times has a very good article, which states Chancellor Merkel’s position on the ‘eurozone crisis’ very clearly: It needs a better disciplined, closer fiscal union with penalities for…
To emphasize that the Basi/Virk trial was merely meter-spinning theatre from the injustice system, I bring back a Northern Insights piece from almost 18 months ago. I think it captures…
NOAA.jpg This week, the Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives sent a strong message to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) – they’re not concerned about climate change. The NOAA…
The companies developing the Hebron oil field offshore Newfoundland and Labrador won’t be doing as much of the construction work in the province as some people might have believed. According…
…to anyone outside the NCR, but wow! Hasn’t the demolition of the old Gallery building on the corner of Albert and Elgin ever made a difference streetscape and skyline-wise? It…
Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty and Finance Minister Dwight Duncan. Matt Gurney in the National Post lays it on a little thick when he calls the Ontario Liberals – and Premier…
I have written many times on one of Canada’s biggest shames, the export of asbestos, something of grave concern to all right-thinking Canadians. It is therefore gratifying to see that,…
Stephen Harper called today “a day of honour.” And when Governor-General David Johnston joined with him in paying tribute to the Canadian Forces who served in the recent campaign in…
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Over the last week I have spoken to Liberals in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Ontario. This afternoon I will be speaking to some Liberals over a drink in Montreal.…
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Frances Russell wonders what happened to the concept of the public good: Our political language about taxes has changed. Gone is “ability…
The name Mullet and bad haircuts? Someone couldn’t have seen this coming?!? The Toronto Star has more: The leader of a breakaway Amish group allowed the beatings of those who…
I’ve blogged on this before, and continue to be surprised by the lack of attention paid to the significant ongoing decline of real wages. Falling wages are a key indicator…
Last night Mona Eltahawy tweeted ( @monaeltahawy) an incredible account of her capture and subsequent sexual assault and much more. Here she expands in a telephone interview with CNN. A…
R. v. Bodenstein, 2011 ONCA 737 is a useful example of the Court of Appeal applying the traditional test for expert evidence in the context of soft sciences and criminal…
