Earlier this week, PotashCorp laid off 440 workers in Saskatchewan. Here are the closing paragraphs from today’s front-page story reporting a letter from Premier Brad Wall asking the company to…
Conservative governments love budget cuts. Look around you, and every time there is a “financial crisis”, the first thing that comes out of the conservatives is that they must cut…
Only in HarperLand would the first governmental report on impending environmental threats be that… we should cut down our boreal forests.
TWELVE-STEP PROGRAMS are renowned for their ability to bring communities of sufferers of addictions and compulsive disorders together in a climate of support and respect, and through the steps, to…
He was 95 and in ill-health, but it is still hard to come to grips with the reality that he is gone. He was a leading figure of our times,…
Wmtc readers have told me that they like the inner-workings-of-the-library posts, so I’m going to let myself write those whenever an idea comes up. That means the “things I heard…
OpenMedia_CA_248x208.png Trade Ministers set to gather for crucial Singapore TPP talks with U.S. lobbyists aiming to strong-arm Canada into adopting Internet censorship rules that damaged the Australian economy December 6,…
Statistics Canada reported that employment grew by 22,000 in November. But 20,000 of those new jobs were part-time. The proportion of all Canadian jobs that are part-time rose to an…
My God, my God, I love reading interviews with the Gallaghers. Here’s Noel: How about Miley Cyrus? Are you a fan? I think there’s a trend, unfortunately, in the game,…
Your news links for today: Competition Bureau Strengthens Advocacy Focus (Competition Bureau) Lawful access: The comeback? (CBA National Magazine) Liberals Demand More Draconian IP Provisions: Propose Adding New Statutory Damages…
What’s to say? It’s the usual TandT. On the death of Nelson Mandela, Stephen Harper says, “World has lost one of ‘its great moral leaders’…” So it has. But the…
Yes. A damned street lamp. Just an ordinary street lamp. A streetlamp created with a sense of taste and style, and chosen and placed with a sense of history and…
With all the reporting on the Senate scandal you might think there’s not much more to be discovered. But reading the actual documents the RCMP turned up in its Mike…
I had planned this to be my first piece post-holiday, but Nelson Mandela’s passing yesterday prompted my post about that giant who walked among us. I purposely kept it brief,…
When does a biodegradable product not degrade? It seems that when the product crosses a border there are different levels of biodegradable. And it is causing trouble. It seems that…
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Friday, December 6, 2013: The Day the Rob Ford Story Stopped Being Funny Is the notion of “practice-ready”…
…we should never give up on eliminating violence against women: • Geneviève Bergeron (born 1968), civil engineering student • Hélène Colgan (born 1966), mechanical engineering student • Nathalie Croteau (born…
In June 1990, only a few months after Nelson Mandela was released from prison, he came to Canada to thank Canadians for their support in the fight against apartheid. This…
Assorted content to end your week. – Hassan Arif theorizes that a failure to identify and address growing inequality may have played a significant role in the rise of Rob…
