From Liberal finance critic Scott Brison, remarking on the Auditor-General report: “A Liberal government will restore evidence-based decision-making and replace Harper’s decision-based evidence-making,” Brison said.” Decision-based evidence-making. Yes, that’s exactly…
Will we look back at spring 2015 as a volatile period of immense change? Vermont’s Independent Senator Bernie Sanders is going to pursue the US presidency. He will do it…
California has set an ambitious target for greenhouse gas emissions. Their target is to cut emissions 80% from 1990 levels by 2050. That’s an ambitious target but, let’s face it,…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Louis-Philippe Rochon reviews the Cons’ track record as irresponsible economic and financial managers. Statistics Canada looks at the debt picture facing Canadians and…
Thanks to your hard work, over 100 Canadian businesses are speaking out about Bill C-51, securing us this major media coverage. By Global News OTTAWA – The Conservatives’ anti-terror law…
Canadian politics has livened up spurred on by the sluggish economic performance, the Duffy trial, the Alberta elections, and the ongoing troubles in the Oil and Gas industry. The National…
The central banker who talked too much Louis-Philippe Rochon Associate Professor of economics, Laurentian University Co-Editor, Review of Keynesian Economics On Tuesday, Governor of the Bank of Canada, Stephen Poloz…
Your news links for today: Canadian Government on Copyright Notice Flood: “It’s Not a Notice-and-Settlement Regime” – Michael Geist TV Show ‘Empire’ a UK Hit Thanks to Pirates, Star Says…
New bank fees target kids’ accounts and allow ‘double-dipping,’ say customers RBC says new fees ‘cost of doing business’ By Rosa Marchitelli, CBC News Posted: Apr 29, 2015 5:00 AM…
Erickson & Partners v. Ontario (Health and Long-Term Care), 2015 ONCA 285: Starting, then, from first principles, the interpretation of s. 39(6) of the Regulation requires the court to read…
Note the careful words, words that are worthy of a former Prime Ministerial spokesweasel: “I deeply regret the ordeal this has been for my family,” he said. “There’s been no…
https://campaigns.350.org/ If there is one thing that distinguishes the Harper government from its predecessors it’s an obsession with secrecy. And that obsession is glaringly apparent in Mr. Harper’s refusal to…
…but it grows unavoidably and becomes very large over time. So says the author of a study on the effects of TFSAs (tax-free savings accounts), Rhys Kessselman, a School of…
Barcelona is going to build a road bridge which may be the cleanest bridge yet. Of course it’ll have pedestrian walks and bike paths, however, what makes the bridge really…
New militancy: Recent strikes in the broader provincial public sector by 13,000 university teaching assistants and Community Care Access Centre employees (mostly RNs) suggest increased willingness of some broader public…
…although, truth be told, a significant number of them are likely robots, as Tim Powers pointed out in Ottawa on Monday. But Katy Perry and Justin Bieber better watch out…
It seems that Bill Blair hopes to be forgiven almost everything. The former Toronto police chief is now a politician. And federal Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau has officially welcomed Blair…
Ever since the Mike Duffy scandal erupted one question has never been properly answered. How on earth did Duffy think he could get away with posing as a Senator from…
Staying above the fray of Alberta’s wild 2015 election campaign, Edmonton Mayor Don Iveson argued in his annual State of the City Address that which ever political party forms the…
