Quebec government to stand up to Conservatives on C-10
It must be nice to live in a province where its government isn’t the Conservatives’ bitch. The provincial government announced Tuesday that it would do everything in its power to…
March 2012
India to Produce 97% Cheaper Anti-Cancer Drugs
India has announced that they will be using a specialized law to produce generic anti-cancer drugs. This will lower the price of these drugs by 97% and increase the efficiency…
Discussion is healthy, indeed #nlpoli
From the Telegram a former chief of staff in the Premier’s Office puts it as eloquently as only he could: If public discussion, questions and debate on any issue should…
Guest Blog: Final report from #C11 parliamentary legislative committee
Clause-by-clause finished today, and the bill is now being reprinted (with the Government amendments that all passed — no opposition passed) and sent back to the house for third reading…
Farber On Uganda Gay Bashing Legislation
Bernie Farber speaks out on Uganda’s “Kill the Gays” Bill: As Canadians, we must be careful not to be lulled into complacency. After all, we live in a country that…
Discrimination is often “proven by circumstantial evidence and inference”
Shaw v. Phipps, 2012 ONCA 155, released today, is an important case upholding a determination by the Human Rights Tribunal. In ruling the Court made useful comments about the proof…
Veteran Fisheries Scientist Warns Harper Government to Water Down Habitat Protections in Omnibus Bill
I have just been leaked a confidential copy of proposed changes to the habitat provisions of the Fisheries Act as directed by the political levels within the Harper Government. The…
ConCalls: Poutine Delayed is Justice Denied
There’ve been murmurs about renaming the RoboGate/RoboCon/RoboCalls/RoboScam scandal into something else, or dropping a cutesy name altogether. The fact is there were live calls made as well as robodialed calls,…
A Visit to Egypt Via The Mistress of Nothing: This Is Book Talk Week.
I’m still on a bit of a high from the great discussion we had last night at the Pierrefons Libraray about Kate Pullinger’s Mistress of Nothing. The novel won the…
Prediction: The application to remove Rob Ford will fail
Even ignoring the immaterial nature of the supposed conflict, there was no real 'benefit' to Ford — remember this was money going to a sponsored sports team. Regardless, despite what…
…and they’ll toss in a free root canal
Former US Vice-President Dick Cheney, who fearlessly sent countless young men and women to their deaths in Iraq and intrepidly authorized the use of torture, was unaccountably nervous about a…
Canada’s chance to bring copyright law into the digital age by Ysolde Gendreau
Columnist says that just as the Copyright Act is being revised by Parliament, providers of all kinds of communication devices and services – Internet services, smartphones, iPods and the like…
Time for a Full Inquiry, for Dean’s Sake
Dean Del Mastro, March 1: “We learned that Joe Volpe paid over $25,000 to Prime Contact, a calling company with offices in North Dakota. These calls were made on behalf…
KONY 2012 and the mischievous media habits of slacktivists
Video still from Kony 2012. I was swamped at work last week, when I took a little Twitter break to see what was going on in the world. My feed…
The Guy in the Next Bed
Code Blue on the floor: a lot like a Code Blue in the Emergency Department, except we have to run to the elevators, take a ponderously slow ride up to…
Tuesday Recommended Robocall Reading
Both Lawrence Martin and Linda McQuaig have columns well-worth reading today on government misdeeds both present and past. McQuaig suggests that it is only our national modesty that prevents us…
Almost one in 10 Albertan men say it’s OK to physically assault a woman
Words fail. On the one hand, some of the responses are cause for optimism — for example, 56 per cent of men say they are more aware of domestic violence…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Sixth Estate rounds up the party and organizational affiliations on Canada’s major opinion pages. And in case anybody was wondering why our…
4339…In PM Harper’s AB It’s Okay To Hit Women
That is what almost one in ten men in Stephen Harper’s stomping grounds in Alberta say. Amanda Stephenson at Postmedia News and The Calgary Herald reports that “The telephone survey,…
4338…30 Rock Is Doomed
The NBC show 30 Rock is now officially doomed. Russell Barth, the prolific Nepean based social critic, has turned on the Emmy winning show because one of the stars, Alec…