Crowdfunding for Political Change
Sites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo have changed the way some projects get funding by using contributions from individuals on a large scale. There have been many art projects and products…
March 2013
Preston Manning’s libertarian manifesto for City government.
TweetNot satisfied with their conquests of the provincial and federal levels of government, the right-wing activists behind the Manning Centre for Building Democracy are expanding their political agenda to city-level…
Immigration consequences a proper consideration on sentencing
A number of cases have dealt with whether a reduction in sentence is appropriate to avoid immigration consequences: R. v. Duhra, 2011 ABCA 165 and R. v. B.R.C., 2010 ONCA…
SWP Bureaucracy & The IST: Part 1
The tradition in the IST is to not intervene in the controversies and debates of other organizations. This was explained to me as a reaction against the practice amongst the…
SWP Bureaucracy & The IST: Part 1
The tradition in the IST is to not intervene in the controversies and debates of other organizations. This was explained to me as a reaction against the practice amongst the…
SWP Bureaucracy & The IST: Part 1
The tradition in the IST is to not intervene in the controversies and debates of other organizations. This was explained to me as a reaction against the practice amongst the…
New column day
Here, on how Brad Wall’s first set of utterly implausible attacks on Cam Broten seems to reflect a failure to learn from the mistakes of the Saskatchewan Party’s Republican cousins.…
140Law – Legal Headlines for Thursday, March 14, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Thursday, March 14, 2013: 10 Things Moms do That Could Get Them in Trouble with the Law Counterfeit…
LPoC Registration Cracks 100,000
From an email I received yesterday evening from Matt Certosimo, the National Membership Secretary: Presumably, the deadline extension will give the party time to contact anyone who is serious about…
Just Another Pretty Face
Those of a certain age will remember the much beloved 1970’s sitcom, The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Set in a television newsroom in Minneapolis, the series chronicled life both inside…
Jeebus, He’s the New Pope! You Can’t Comp His Room?
Pope Frankie the Humble caught the media’s attention when, after winning the biggest contest in Christendom, he went back to his hotel, collected his bags, and then checked out, stopping…
You were the top story
Decision-makers are feeling the heat from our campaign for cell phone choice. Our crowdsourced report, based on your citizen stories, went viral, making it the top story in almost every…
Bell Media seeks to refocus TV spending by Steve Ladurantaye
Columnist says Bell Media wants to redirect millions of dollars in new program funding toward the creation of dramas and comedies, citing a lack of interest and limited audiences for…
Bell Media seeks to refocus TV spending by Steve Ladurantaye
Columnist says Bell Media wants to redirect millions of dollars in new program funding toward the creation of dramas and comedies, citing a lack of interest and limited audiences for…
TV executives praise Canadian content, try to bury it by Simon Houpt
Columnist says that even while television executives are stating Canadian content is competetive, behind the scenes, many are busy manoeuvring to reduce the Canadian-content obligations of their own TV channels.
Conservative Snake Oil
For thirty years, neo-conservatives have been selling a myth. From Ronald Reagan, through George W. Bush to Stephen Harper, they have pitched the idea that they know how to manage…
Florida Legislature Pushing ALEC, CSG Sham Fracking Chemical Disclosure Model Bill
Florida may soon become the fourth state with a law on the books enforcing hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) chemical disclosure. The Florida House of Representatives’ Agriculture and Natural Resources Subcommittee voted…
And That’s Code for – More Chinese Guest Workers
In the fiscally dodgy Athabasca Tar Sands it was really only a matter of time before the call would come to bring in cheap Chinese labour. Still, it’s a little…
Hmmn, Toronto government offices will never close …
Legislature Nunavut “consideration will be given to closing government offices in any community if a combination of any three of the following occur in a normal workday:” • visibility is…