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August 2012
Freedom of Association the same whether raised as a sword to claim the positive right to an effective legislative regime to protect freedom of association or used as a shield to defend against legislation that impinges upon existing statutory protections
Association of Justice Counsel v. Canada (Attorney General), 2012 ONCA 530 deals with freedom of association in the context of labour relations — it makes clear that there right is…
It’s Time for Winnipeg to Finally Honour Clara Hughes
Clara has just finished her Olympic career with a great performance in London, finishing fifth. She and Cindy Klassen, another Winnipegger, are tied for the most Olympic medals by any…
GlaxoSmithKline Sets Record with 3 Billion Dollar Fine
And the list goes on. It is no secret that many for-profit health companies in the United States are regularly fined for various forms of fraud, usually cheating Medicare or…
Our Broken Food System And Our Poor Health
Everyone on the planet requires regular meals every single day of our lives. Despite the incredible importance of food, our North American food system, like much of the rest of…
5007…It Has Come To This In Canada
The nation is excited about Canada winning a bronze in women’s soccer. To paraphrase the great Jim Rome, heard locally on The Team 1200 and all across North America on…
Voters of K-W and Vaughan take note: the Ontario PCs don’t care about drunk drivers in your community
After a weekend where the province experienced a huge number of drunk-driving arrests – and drunkness-related deaths – what is the response of Hudak’s Tea Party North? They want to…
Mars Laser
We’ve equipped Mars with a laser. Our latest rover there, called Curiosity, actually shoots fricken laser beams from its head. How cool is that? Is there a scientific purpose in…
Prometheus: Big Ideas Made Dull
$130 million and all you can come up with is that we were created by muscular white dudes with waxed chests? Let’s keep this quick and painless and cut straight…
Expressionist wolf cat
Filed under: art, digital, painting Tagged: 100 cats
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Mitchell Anderson discusses the Ten Commandments that have ensured that Norway’s oil wealth is preserved for the benefit of citizens. But it’s…
New column day
Here, on how the mixed-riding proposal of Saskatchewan’s federal electoral boundaries commission offers at least some improvement over the current all-rurban mess when it comes to recogizing communities of interest.…
Barry Hudson: Ontario and Canada Are Failing Our Autistic Children and Adults
Barry Hudson is a very well informed, articulate father of an autistic son in Ontario, autism advocate and director with Medicare for Autism Now! Barry describes his family life with…
The Harper Government and The Eve of Environmental Destruction
Despite recent toned-down rhetoric, I suspect Harper and his minions are fooling very few people. Take, for example, the recent words of our Anti-Environment Minister, the integrity-challenged Peter Kent: Confronted…
How Not To Do Labour Relations
Just as Peter Kent is the Anti-Environment Minister, Lisa Raitt is the Anti-Labour Minister. Her job has been to legislate Canada Post, Air Canada and Canadian Pacific workers back to…
Bank of Canada governor Carney MUST blow the whistle on misbehaving, global banks!
OTTAWA – Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney says he is willing to blow the whistle on banks that break international norms or don’t comply with reforms designed to prevent…
How Government should interact with Developers, Data Geeks and Analysts
Below is a screen shot from the Opendatabc google group from about two months ago. I meant to blog about this earlier but life has been in the way. For…