Hanging up the shoes
It’s not a huge surprise, but it’s still big news. After 8 years, the only Finance Minister Stephen Harper has ever known and loved is calling it quits: Jim Flaherty…
2014
Support the Tyendinaga Arrestees!
Urgent need for money to cover legal fees for Tyendinaga Warriors. On March 8, following a week of action demanding a national inquiry into the at least 825 missing and…
Who will replace Deficit, err, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty?
Conservative Finance Minister Jim Flaherty has announced that he’s resigning from Cabinet, and leaving politics to work in the private sector. Considering Flaherty has been in politics for nearly two…
The Accidental Sea
Interesting film on California’s abandoned Salton Sea.
Alison Redford: The Puppet Premier?
On March 17, 2014, following Premier Redford’s tearful introduction of her daughter Sarah to the Legislative Assembly, the ND Opposition leader Brian Mason rose to ask the Premier a critical…
Wireless price-hikes! OK who’s running the show here: Big Telecom or the government?
In February, Industry Minister James Moore announced that the government has heard our voices, and promised that everyday Canadians would soon experience lower costs and greater choice in our broken…
Wireless price hike underlines government’s failure to deliver its promise to lower rates and rein in high-cost Big Telecom giants
BT-price-gouge_v2.png Urgent government action required to open networks to ensure Canadians have affordable alternatives to the Big Three providers MARCH 18, 2014 – Canadians will be paying even more for…
March 18: t you want to understand current events….
…read today’s column on the op ed page of the TandT, the one by Gwynne Dyer. The story goes back to 1988. I remember it well. I was in the…
Extremely important bail decision
R v Beck 2014 NWTTC 07 is an extremely important bail decision. It is, as far as I can tell, the first decision to consider the impact of TIS on…
Energy East pipeline would be for export, not local refining
Most of the oil from the proposed Energy East pipeline would be destined for export, says a new report by Lauren Krugel, The Canadian Press CALGARY – The proposed Energy…
Alison Redford will go down with the ship
Alberta politics is all a-twitter these days about the future of the Princess Premier, Alison Redford. Two MLAs have resigned, bringing simmering discontent to the surface. Len Webber quit last…
Free shipping continues for just how long?
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It’s Definitely Not Democracy
That’s the conclusion fundraising expert Harvey McKinnon draws in this interview during which he discusses the Harper regime’s targeting of groups that oppose the Tory policy of environmental despoliation, about…
Concerned Engineers Warn of Flaws in Enbridge Northern Gateway Tanker Plan
A group of engineers have released papers warning us not to trust the numbers provided by Enbridge when it comes to tanker traffic associated with the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline.…
Would a Social Co-operative Work in the Cowichan Valley?
Robert Douglas-Cowichan Conversations Contributor More than two hundred unionized workers at Duncan’s Sunridge Place were recently given pink slips. This came after the owner of the seniors care facility reached…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Your news links for today: Why Are Canadian Wireless Carriers Increasing Prices? Because They Can – Michael Geist Wireless Carriers’ High Flying Prices – Angelus Novus (Updated) Mobile Wireless in…
Whose robocall are you?
A small change in a robocall the other day was an announcement of the name of a company responsible for the call and a toll-free number to verify the call.…
StatCan Reports Fewest Vacant Jobs on Record
Statistics Canada reported today that there were only 199,700 vacant jobs in December 2013, the fewest recorded since it first reported these figures for March 2011. Statistics Canada began tracking…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Andrew Jackson writes that increases in Canadian inequality have been the result of deliberate policy choices: In an important recent book, Inequality…