#cdnecon An Appalling Performance from a Finance Minister. » Whatever economic movement we’ve had has been fuelled by essentially personal debt, an astonishing 516.7 billion increase since 2006, at a…
The deadline to register for the LPC leadership vote is this Thursday! Register now, it takes less than 2 minutes to make sure your voice is heard as part of…
Kady at CBC learned that Peter Penashue’s campaign started while he was still a Minister, suggesting the Conservatives calculated at least one last photo-op before he stepped down as Minister…
Peter Penashue Byelection: Harper Wants A Candidate He Can Control, Ex-Tory MP Says Because we didn’t already know that Stephen Harper is a control freak… Reminds me of this. British…
My computer is now working again. Sorry about yesterday’s mess. So let’s start with what I wanted to say yesterday. Harper and Alward are very, very upset. Big business is…
EcoParent Magazine is all about raising children in an environmentally-friendly way while inspiring respect for the planet. The site currently has a range of tips and information ranging from edible…
When the federal Lobbying Act came into force in 2008, Vic Toews, then the President of the Treasury Board, declared the legislation “increased accountability in Ottawa” and provided “a more…
There is a difference between the long run and the short run: we all know that and as John Maynard Keynes said, in the long run we are all dead.…
The front of today’s New York Daily News. The NRA, and organizations like it, are terrororist organizations, and should be treated as such.
Inspired by these headlines: http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/story/2013/03/19/business-lululemon-recall.html http://blogs.wsj.com/canadarealtime/2013/03/19/for-canadas-finance-ministerits-budget-day-shoes-or-boots-from-roots/?mod=WSJBlog&mod=WSJ_Canada_Realtime
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter on Wednesday, March 20, 2013: A friendly reminder to be careful who you “CC”, especially when it comes to…
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The new Library and Archives Canada code of behavior …says morals and ethics are part of a continuum with “self-regulation” at one end and “heterogulation” at the other. But at…
Earlier I noted that while the provincial government was imposing concessions (and wage freezes) on unionized public sector workers, the Conference Board of Canada was predicting 2.7% increases for non-union…
A guest article by Jared Milne. For years, conservative writers have been complaining about what they call “judicial activism”. Writers like Ted Morton, Rainier Knopff and Robert Martin sharply criticize…
R. v. Kablutsiak, 2013 NUCJ 3 is a striking sentencing decision. In it Justice Cooper finds that detention following arrest (refusal of bail) can be used to deterrent and a…
This is cross-posted from a site my friend Misha Gouberman’s created to explore an idea. We’ve been doing some very light scheming thinking about the following event. What follows is…
Truth is always the first casualty of war. But, on the tenth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, Richard Gwyn writes that truth died before that war started: In Bush’s…
The CRTC is asking consumers and telemarketers for their views on how to reduce unwanted calls and is taking a close look at the rules for automated calls.
