New Code a starting point that begins to addresses citizen concerns on broken cell phone market OpenMedia.ca is welcoming the CRTC’s publication of its new Code of Conduct for Canadian…
Is the Keystone XL pipeline really what President Obama wants to leave as his legacy, for future generations to remember him by – and curse him for? * Meanwhile climate…
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Mike Konczal discusses the distribution of U.S. tax breaks and incentives, and finds that measures normally presented as offering breaks for everybody in…
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Monday, June 3, 2013: Lori Douglas inquiry’s new counsel wants do-ove Just how public are a public official’s…
Forget all the government Budget rhetoric about better home care. The real winners are the docs. The Ontario Budget Estimates are out and the line item primarily covering the doctors…
I was thinking recently of an apocryphal story that was told to me many years ago as I sat in a dank basement drinking from a keg of beer. Apparently…
I was thinking recently of an apocryphal story that was told to me many years ago as I sat in a dank basement drinking from a keg of beer. Apparently…
I was thinking recently of an apocryphal story that was told to me many years ago as I sat in a dank basement drinking from a keg of beer. Apparently…
I was thinking recently of an apocryphal story that was told to me many years ago as I sat in a dank basement drinking from a keg of beer. Apparently…
Mayor Bloomberg in New York City has been clear that streets are meant to move people around and not just cars. The efforts the city has made to open up…
Last week, The Star’s Thomas Walkom had an excellent column on Harer-led changes to the Employment Insurance Tribunal that turn it into a complete repository of patronage, rewarding the party…
That’s what Bob Dole trumpeted almost twenty years ago, when he was running against Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinski. Try as he might, Dole couldn’t generate public outrage against Clinton.…
Big Oil has deployed the “Tobacco Playbook” once again, this time in response to the release of “Gasland 2.” It comes in the form of a documentary film titled, “FrackNation,”…
Exciting news announced at Book Expo America (BEA): The Fridgularity won the IndieReader.com Discovery Award (IRDA) for best humor, 2013. Hugh Howey, bestselling indie author of WOOL and Amy Edelman,…
Critics of the Muskrat Falls development pointed out over 18 months ago that the project would have problems meeting its electricity commitments. Nalcor disputed that. But this weekend, CBC’s Paul…
Best I can do today is post cat videos. Apparently no cats were harmed in the making of this. Not that I care. They are evil little fuckers.
Golly. I can only imagine how Stephen Harper must be feeling these days as he watches what was left of his tarnished reputation crumbling under the weight of scandal. Although…
A convergence of health and other personal and business issues consumed my attention recently and kept me from blogging. However, I expect to be back on line mid-week. Thanks for…
There has been very little coverage in western media of a current story in Turkish dailies that places chemical weapons in the hands – not of forces connected with Assad…
