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While many of us know that the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement is being conducted in unprecedented secrecy (except, of course, in the case of the corporate sector that has full access…
2013
Trickle Down Would Work If It Weren’t For The Sponges At The Top
This piece was first published in the Globe and Mail’s Economy Lab. Five years after a global economic crisis unleashed chaos on markets everywhere, income inequality has become an inescapable…
ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR! Avast ye landlubbers!
It be talk like a Pirate day! Confuse yer friends! Amaze yer cohorts! Someone pisses ya off? Swab the decks with em! Happy International Talk like a pirate day!
Ottawa: Doubledecker bus and train collision
TRANSIT ACCIDENT: An official photographed the scene of an accident involving a bus and a train in Ottawa Wednesday. Six people died and at least 11 others were critically injured…
Daily Digital Digest for Thursday 19 September 2013
Here are your daily news links: ‘Fair for Canada’ was fear of Verizon: Industry Minister (Globe & Mail) Industry Canada mum on how many deposits received for wireless spectrum auction…
Tony Abbott’s Australia Will Have Nothing to Do With Climate Commission
Australia has just come through its hottest twelve months on record in time to sweep into power Tony Abbott’s wonky coalition government. And, true to form, Tony’s been busy doing…
No right to serve foreign prison sentence in Canada
Divito v. Canada (Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness), 2013 SCC 47: Date: 20130919 Docket: 34128 The ability of prisoners to serve their sentence in Canada is therefore a creation of…
Whenever I See the Gathering Clouds of Nihilism, It’s Strangelove For Me.
At times it can seem that, as a species, we’re backsliding. Egalitarianism seems to be in rout. The drive for equality has stalled and is quietly reversing. We now focus…
Chow for mayor? Don’t bet on it.
The pollsters are telling us that Olivia Chow can be mayor of Toronto after the next municipal election—more than a year from now. The only problem is that the polls…
If we had ranked ballot in 2011, Harper would be gone
Many Canadians are unaware of how ridiculous our voting system is. We award seats to minority candidates and unfettered power to minority parties. This often saddles voters with the opposite…
Generation Y: between posting photos to Facebook showing how fabulous you are, please read this
It’s brilliant. I love the use of funny graphics (although not the crypto-racist “gypsy” designation, dating one of the Romani people, as I do). Personally, I acknowledge that I had…
Sept. 19: Ain’t never seen nuthin’ like it – not since Dr. Goebbels was Hitler’s news chief…
First, I’m sorry that my computer is ignoring my paragraph structure, creating long strings of sentences. I’ll try to correct it with more spacing. The big headline on p. 1…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Carol Goar points out why Canada’s EI system is running surpluses (contrary to all parties’ intentions) – and notes that the result…
Nepal: Colourful religious rituals
GIRLS’ WORSHIP: Nepalese girls wore traditional attire as they waited for a worship ceremony for girls meant to offer protection from evil and good luck in the future in Katmandu,…
New column day
Here, on how the real question in Regina’s P3 referendum vote is that of how to operate the City’s vital infrastructure – and why we should vote “yes” to maintain…
Mexico: Severe weather is an international phenomanon in 2013
Floods in Mexico have established new records. “Zipline rescues from Mexico floodsHundreds of local and foreign tourists have arrived in Mexico City, after the country’s military sent a plane to…
Olivia Chow’s Summer
Quote: “…Described by publisher Harper Collins as a “candid memoir,” the book is just one part of a carefully planned year-long strategy developed by Chow and her advisers to win…
Wrestling with Democracy
Wrestling with Democracy is an ambitious, historical examination of the changes in voting systems across a large number of Western liberal democracies over the course of the twentieth century that…
Judges presumed to know and apply the law
R. v. Burns (l994) 89 C.C.C. (3d) l93 at l99 to 200, states the following:Failure to indicate expressly that all relevant considerations have been taken into account in arriving at…
Black Day for EI in July
Today, Statistics Canada reported a large monthly drop of 10,900 for July in the number of Canadians receiving regular Employment Insurance (EI) benefits. Its press release noted, “This decline brings…