Activists led by the Council of Canadians have filed a Charter challenge to the Conservatives’ Fair Elections Act or Bill C-23 in the Ontario Superior Court. The post Harper’s “anti-democratic”…
You participate in a sex crime if you search for or look at revenge porn. It is really that simple. A Richmond, B.C., woman hopes her story of having nude…
A worldwide transition to low carbon fuels could save the global economy as much as $1.8 trillion over the next two decades, according to two reports published Thursday by the…
Former CRTC Commissioner, Timothy Denton, is speaking his mind about a recent public hearing on the future of Canada’s wireless sector. In a recent blog post, the CRTC stalwart argued…
As many of our readers have already seen, we’re in the midst of running a Kickstarter campaign to raise $50,000 by Sunday, October 12. We’re excited to say that we…
As many of our readers have already seen, we’re in the midst of running a Kickstarter campaign to raise $50,000 by Sunday, October 12. We’re excited to say that we…
Here’s an oversimplified choice for how to fund post-secondary education. Imagine you have two options for dealing with how people pay for post-secondary education: Universal free tuition, means-testing to see…
You may have watched the 2012 documentary, Chasing Ice. This clip is of the calving event shown in the documentary except that it presents the ice field in the perspective…
For the first time in a while, Statistics Canada gives us some good news on the job front. 74,000 net new jobs added in September, certainly nothing to sneeze at.…
Kane X. Faucher’s latest novel is a brilliant adaptation the classic Alexander Dumas tale of revenge, The Count of Monte Cristo. I’ve always loved the original, and Faucher’s book is…
Your news links for today: Statement by Industry Minister James Moore on the Consultation on Policy Changes in the 3500 MHz Band – Canada News Centre 4% of Canadian Internet…
In the third of three posts charting how climate change became a political issue, we see how Margaret Thatcher, the high priestess of the magical free markets, first took up…
Assorted content to end your week. – Linda McQuaig discusses the radical difference between how Canadians want to see public resources used (based on the example set by governments elsewhere),…
I won’t wade too far into the sudden discussion of political advertising raised by the Cons’ plans to change copyright law to favour political advertising, as Michael Geist has largely…
http://www.macleans.ca/ It’s fascinating to hear the Harper Party conflate its own self interest with the national interest. The latest example is a Tory proposal — buried in an omnibus bill
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Friday, October 10, 2014: Canadian jailed in Cuba will appeal: lawyers Police report: Palins Started Second Fight After…
That is the lacerating assessment offered by CTV’s Don Martin as he editorializes about the impending theft of copyrighted material engineered (and originally intended to be hidden) by the Harper…
Not only will it lead to more costly and catastrophic events like wildfires, droughts, and floods, but delaying action on climate change will in and of itself consitute a missed…
At around the four minute mark. “I started thinking about that, and I used to think that the Talib would come, and he would just kill me. But then I…
It takes a while to digest the sale the other day of Canada’s English-language Sun newspapers to Postmedia. All you can say for sure is that the newspaper market in…
