April 1: Justin Trudeau is Harper’s secret love-child!
Well, it IS April Fools’ Day. Actually, Justin is pretty drab compared to either Stephen or Pierre. Unlike Pierre, he has no intellect to speak of. Unlike Stephen, he’s not…
2015
Threats that can amount to extortion
R. v. Alexander (2005), 206 C.C.C. (3d) 233 (Ont. C.A.) the accused was convicted of extortion for a threat that was not otherwise criminal. In that case the accused’s wife…
EFF: This secretive agreement could undermine user safeguards
More bad news about the TPP. Article by Maira Sutton for the EFF A newly leaked chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement from Wikileaks has confirmed some of our…
Transforming Precarious Work
The Ontario government has launched a review of their Labour Relations Act and Employment Standards Act. The premise is that the workplace has changed, and Ontario labour law no longer…
Oilsands Companies Scramble to Reclaim Seismic Lines in Endangered Caribou Habitat
Companies in Alberta’s oilsands are scrambling to find a way to reclaim tens of thousands of kilometres of seismic lines cut into the boreal forest before regulations that mandate the…
Water Is Life; We Can’t Afford To Waste It
This is a guest post by David Suzuki. How long can you go without water? You could probably survive a few weeks without water for cooking. If you stopped washing,…
Closed for Business, Hostile to Seniors
Closed: that’s the message Collingwood Council sent to business during its recent budget discussions. We’re making it more expensive to run a business here, and by the way, we’re hostile…
Better Off Without Him
There probably aren’t many in Parliament with a less distinguished career that Conservative MP James Lunney. His pension now safely in the bag, Lunney has decided to formalize his legislative…
Meet the man who can stop the TPP’s Internet censorship plan
A huge leak just revealed that the TPP would establish a secretive, shadowy international court that could be used by Big Media giants to kick Internet users around the world…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Arthur Neslen reports on the Health and Environmental Alliance’s study of greenhouse gas emission reductions showing that we’d enjoy both improved health and…
B.C. Mine Approvals ‘Too Much, Too Fast’ According to Alaskans Downstream
B.C.’s approval of a new mine in a transboundary watershed has added fuel to simmering Alaskan anger about the province’s surge of mine development adjacent to the southeast Alaska border.…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Wednesday, April 1, 2015
Your news links for today: From Obama Birthers to Anti-Immigration Activists: Who the Government Turned to for Bill C-51 Support During Committee Hearings – Michael Geist Canadian spy agency’s overseer…
Haters Gonna Hate
And Liars Gonna Lie. So, one might expect @jkenney to retract that statement today but, I'm guessing, blame the mistake on bad information from DND and/or CDS. — Glen McGregor…
Your Morning Laugh
From Team Coco:
On exclusivity
Shorter Harper Cons: We’ll consider allowing democratic oversight of CSIS just as soon as that know-nothing public stops electing MPs who aren’t us.
Travel For a Better Brain
I just booked a flight to London and coincidentally came across an article that says that our brains can benefit greatly from exploring the world. A good way to start…
BREAKING: James Lunney-related news
Has a new LA too! "@davidakin: Newly independent @jameslunneymp expected to speak in #HOC today after #QP” #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/w4y9Axys0j — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) April 1, 2015
The Amazing Transparent Man
http://en.wikipedia.org/ Stephen Poloz, the Governor of the Bank of Canada, says that the economic numbers in the first quarter of this year will be “atrocious” — something that Stephen Harper…
Hither And Thither
For a government whose every policy seems to be concocted with an eye to re-election, it is not surprising that Finance Minister Joe Oliver has not yet firmed up a…