An Analogy For Understanding Violent Protest In Baltimore
Let’s say you live in an apartment building, and the only way to buy groceries was to order them and have them delivered to your apartment. Everyone is told “To…
2015
Duffy Trial Adjourned
Judge Charles Vaillancourt has adjourned the Duffy trial to Monday to allow counsel to sharpen their swords for the battle over whether some awkward Senate reports should be admitted into…
Cowichan Bay’s Nick Verstegg Reported To Be Safe in Nepal Following Earthquake
Yesterday’s story in the Victoria Times-Colonist-By Sarah Petrescu and Richard Watts is being welcomed by Nick Verstegg’s wife, Elly Driessen and friends throughout the Cowichan Valley. Cowichan Bay’s Nick Versteeg,…
Great line of the day
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…
It’s On: Bernie Sanders to Announce Bid for Presidency on Thursday
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…
They Get It. We Don’t.
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,…
Wednesday Morning Links
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…
Liberals back on top in new Nanos poll
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
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 Daily Digital Digest for Wednesday, April 29, 2015
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…
Your Big Five Bank Account Needs a Condom…..
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…
Interpreting a Regulation
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…
Careful words
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…
Keeping the TPP Under Wraps
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…
It Grows Slowly, This Revenue Loss
…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…
18,000 followers can’t all be wrong
…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…