The media on Andre Marin: “the watchdog needs a babysitter”
The Post: Such teenagerish behaviour is not particularly unusual for the veteran watchdog. Indeed, Marin has gotten in a number of public spats on Twitter, which occasionally end with him…
June 2015
The Harper Doctrine in Red? Justin Trudeau’s Foreign Policy
Photo by Alex Guibord With its legacy of peacekeeping and respect for the United Nations, one notable feature of Pierre Elliot Trudeau’s foreign policy was his willingness to disagree openly…
Alternate History (AH) – What if the Tories did better in Alberta?
Teddy here with the first in another series of posts I plan to do on alternate history. Inspired again by a post over at 308 I decided to make some…
Canada’s Emissions Cost the World 8,800 Lives and $15.4 Billion Every Year
This is a guest post by Andrew Gage, staff counsel with West Coast Environmental Law. Canada is not a super-power. We’re geographically large, but small in terms of population. And…
Article in Foreign Affairs
I have an article in Foreign Affairs on the governance challenge posed by algorithmic decision making: The Violence of Algorithms
Article in San Fransisco Chronicle
The following was in the San Fransisco Chronicle, on May 1 Why the U.S. should but won’t partner with hactivists Anonymous For a barbaric movement grounded in early Islamic apocalyptic…
Media Advisory: June 3 is Cell Phone Freedom Day: new mobile phone customer protection rules come into effect for 2–4 million Canadians
cpfd-blogv2.png Code contains significant customer protections for mobile phone and Internet users, including an end to 3-year contracts, and caps on roaming charges for data Image credit: Mobile Phones And…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Janelle Vandergrift reminds us that we should see ourselves as participating citizens, not mere taxpayers: Taxes are a way to pool our resources…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Monday, June 1, 2015
Your news links for today: Public opinion shifts on government surveillance post-Snowden – CBC’s The Current Bill C-51: Canada’s new McCarthy era where advocating for action against climate change is…
The Fundamental(ist) Reasons for It All…..
Rise of the ‘precariat,’ the global scourge of precarious jobs Barely one in four of the global workforce has a stable job, UN reports By Brian Stewart, CBC News Posted:…
Meanwhile, In Our Vast, Undefended North…
The latest issue of Foreign Policy magazine is devoted to espionage, spying, and the magazine reports that today’s Ground Zero of spying is the Arctic. For the countries that border…
Peter MacKay In Farewell Profile
Happy trails to you, Peter. H/t Greg Perry Recommend this Post
National Security Means Environmental Security
http://www.wesrch.com/ Stephen Harper has vowed to make national security a central plank is his election platform. But, Chris Wood writes, if we want to ensure our national security, we should
New Brunswick and Ontario Fail to Address Needs of Adults with Autism Disorders and their Families
Image from a CBC British Columbia article in December 2014 Reporting on Ground Breaking of Construction on the $28-million Pacific Autism Family Centre in Richmond, B.C..(Pacific Autism Family Centre) British…
“Will no one rid us of that bother Brown?”
In an erudite e-mail the other day a reader equated Ontario Conservative Party Leader Patrick Brown’s intelligence to that of a barrel of axe handles. He felt that it was…
The New Con Attack Ad and the Disgustingness of Stephen Harper
As we all know Stephen Harper was the man, or the monster, who introduced the most disgusting attack ads this country had ever seen.Extracting them from the bowels of Republican…
Canada’s GHG emissions cost the world 8,800 lives and $15.4 Billion every year
Monday, June 1, 2015 Canadian politicians may argue that our greenhouse gas emissions are small, but because the global harm that the world is already suffering from climate change is…