The Grotesque Hypocrisy of the Con Clown Candice Bergen
Like her leathery leader Rona The Vulture Ambrose, Candice Bergen likes to dress in black. And with good reason.She is one of the nastiest Cons in the House of Commons.Read…
January 2016
On Data Privacy Day, Reclaim Your Privacy Rights
Today, January 28, is data privacy day, a day dedicated to raising awareness relating to the protection of your privacy and personal data. Lately, Canada's law enforcement agencies have been…
Meet The Women Of The Occupied Refuge (repost)
Kristi Jernigan arrived alone at the Redmond airport from Tennessee with nothing but a carry-on bag and her Bible. Read the rest of this post on the original site at…
The tort of misfeasance in public office
Conway v. The Law Society of Upper Canada, 2016 ONCA 72: The tort of misfeasance in public office has been variously described in the case law as the tort of…
Stanford Responds to Moffatt: Why I Still Worry About Auto Job Losses Under a TPP
My friend and fellow #cdnecon tweeter Mike Moffatt has published a thought-provoking commentary regarding the impact of the proposed Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) on Canada’s auto industry. Specifically, Mike engages…
Trans Mountain Oil Pipeline Review ‘Vexed from Outset’
The review of the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline expansion has been plagued by a critical lack of evidence, members of a National Energy Board panel heard in Burnaby last…
Interlocutory Injunctions
Judges have enormous power and can make all sorts of order that will, as necessary, be backed up by force.But just because a judge has power does not mean the…
TransCanada’s NAFTA claims are based on the old normal
Thursday, January 28, 2016 Earlier this month TransCanada announced that it would be claiming comp...
Canada shouldn’t export its oil
Photo by Jason Woodhead It’s good to see Montreal-area mayors oppose the Energy East oil pipeline, because environmental risks such as spills that threaten drinking water are too great and…
Jan.27: World War Three
CBC news has a story it ran back in November about the dismal performance of Canadian shipyards in producing ships for the Canadian navy. And this happened despite a gift…
Manitoba women were first to win right to vote 100 years ago
Photo by Bain News Service A hundred years ago this week, the first group of women in Canada won the right to vote after a decades-long battle. It happened in…
Technology bargain betrayed—where have all the rewards gone?
Early in the Industrial Revolution, many workers were concerned about being replaced by machines. The most well known group were the Luddites, British weavers who smashed mechanical looms that threatened…
David Suzuki: Paris Changed Everything, So Why Are We Still Talking Pipelines?
This is a guest post by David Suzuki. With the December Paris climate agreement, leaders and experts from around the world showed they overwhelmingly accept that human-caused climate change is…
A First Step For Government, a Semi-Giant Leap for Labor
Liberal government moves to repeal controversial union laws Employment Minister MaryAnn Mihychuk meets reporters on Parliament Hill at 10:15 a.m. ET CBC News Posted: Jan 28, 2016 10:08 AM ET…
Part III
I’ve finished the first scene of the last section of my new novel, unless, of course, there turns out to be more. That’s the strangeness of writing the way I…
The housing problem is the housing market, but it can be solved
We have lived to see the day of a condo boom in Hamilton, Ontario. We have made housing into an object of speculation that sucks in money from here and…
Old tuxedo’s wild dream
There are some very nice apps. They all seem to be about 90% perfect. The red in ZenBrush just wasn’t right. Too blood-like. The app needs more colour options. More…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Ed Miliband offers his take on inequality and the political steps needed to combat it:(T)he terms of the case against inequality have changed.…