Consumers Care About Social Responsibility
I recall early in the last decade that companies didn’t respond to calls for corporate social responsibility because consumers didn’t care. That seems to have changed, which is a very…
April 2013
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Michael Harris takes aim at Stephen Harper’s thugocracy: There is little that Stephen Harper has done that other prime ministers before him have…
How things get reported now: Thatcher and Twitter
This seems about right, to me.
Nick Taylor-Vaisey
I really enjoy the way he summarizes the news over at Maclean’s. (And I like the fact that he doesn’t clumsily try and drive an agenda all the time, like…
New undemocratic rules barrier to public participation in Enbridge’s Line 9 pipeline hearings
Rules “a consequence of weakened federal environmental laws under Bill C-38″ By: Greenpeace Canada & Environmental Defence | Press Release: TORONTO, ON, Apr 5, 2013 – New undemocratic rules are…
140Law – Legal Headlines for Monday, April 8, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Monday, April 8, 2013: BC Legal aid crisis means justice is not being served The Right to Be…
Out: The Making of a Revolutionary
Convicted of the 1983 U.S. Capitol Bombing, and “conspiring to influence, change, and protest policies and practices of the United States government through violent and illegal means”, Laura Whitehorn, an…
Duncan meets his match
We have a bird perch in the shower – Simon showers with me, Kazoo showers with GC, and Oboe is versatile. Anyway, yesterday, after Simon and I finished our shower,…
Ask General Kang: I’ve heard that one of the first things women check out is your footwear. What if I wear sandals?
Wow, this is a tough one. First of all, I don’t put anything on my feet, so I’m not really sure what this “footwear” concept is all about. (Don’t be…
Now It All Makes Sense
RBC CEO Gord Nixon I just knew there had to be a logical explanation. This explains that. Recommend this Post
Rae’s Day
Every political commentator loves to say “timing is everything in politics”, and every Canadian political commentator loves to say that Bob Rae never had good timing. He had the misfortune…
New York Times reconsidering the term ‘illegal immigrant’
By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive: Last week, the Associated Press ditched the demeaning and exclusionary term “illegal immigrant”. Jose Antonio Vargas, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who outed himself…
The Iron Lady is No More
Margaret Thatcher, dead of a stroke, at 87.
Margaret Thatcher, former U.K. PM, has died
Margaret Thatcher, one of the most important British politicians of the 20th century, has died. She was the first woman to become U.K. prime minister and Britain's only prime minister…
New Democrats Serious About Electing Harry Borlase In Labrador …
NDP CANDIDATE HARRY BORLASE ON THE LAUNCH OF THE LABRADOR BY-ELECTION LABRADOR – “On May 13 Labradorians will have the opportunity to tell the Stephen Harper Conservatives that it’s time…
Margaret Thatcher was a leader…
… if nothing else. And she helped to pave the way for other women who wanted to pursue politics as a vocation. She will be remembered fondly by her allies…
Secrecy and ethics cast dark cloud on Stephen Harper’s government: poll
But note 46 % say the country is headed the right way — and 46 % is sufficient for a crushingly large majority government… . OTTAWA — Two-thirds of Canadians…
Your morning JT news
Right here. Um, except: 1. Alf Apps? alf Apps, he of Ornge fame, is the voice of renewal? Seriously? Can we get Chris Mazza in to oversee fundraising, now? 2.…
Michael Walters, Ray Martin jump into the municipal election.
TweetWith much attention focused last week on Edmonton Mayor Stephen Mandel‘s harsh criticisms of the recent provincial budget, it may have been easy to miss news that candidates planning to…