How Multinational Corporations Evade Canadian Income Tax Law
In the wake of the recent Ted Opitz case, in which the Supreme Court of Canada issued a bizarrely partisan split ruling, written by two Harper appointees to the nation’s…
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Justice Delayed, Justice Denied in Etobicoke Centre
Today the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that the law governing Canada’s elections is less important than the principle of elections: that everyone has the right to vote, even if…
Hollowing Out, Part 1: 30 of Canada’s Top 100 Companies in 1995 Have Since Been Taken Over by Multinational Corporations
In honour of the recent controversy over the proposed takeover of Nexen by the government of China (since only foreign governments are allowed to make money off of Canada’s oil…
Budget Fall 2012, Part 4: 28 Canada’s Largest 43 Lakes Removed from Navigable Waters Protection
Sixth Estate’s budget coverage continues; previous reports are on the MP pension reform scam and the removal of 30 of Canada’s 47 longest rivers from protected status as navigable waters.…
Budget Fall 2012, Part 3: 30 of Canada’s 47 Longest Rivers Removed from Navigable Waters Protection List
Continuing Sixth Estate’s fall 2012 budget coverage, which began with a look at what appears to me to be some appalling chicanery in the MP pension “reform” scheme, I thought…
Media May Have Missed the Story on MP Pension “Reforms”: MPs Unanimously Vote Themselves Pension Bonus for Next Year?
Being neither a lawyer nor an accountant, I have to stress I may be missing something here. I do invite correction. However, I don’t think I’m wrong here. Here’s a…
Are Conservatives Fudging on the Pension Reforms? Is the Media doing its Job?
Once again, so far as I can see, the criminal neglect and incompetence of the nation’s media appears to be on display with respect to the new budget bill. Here’s…
What’s the point of an election law if it can be violated with impunity by government officials?
CBC has been doing superb work researching financial improprieties with respect to the election campaign of the Harper regime’s Intergovernmental Affairs Minister, Peter Penashue of Labrador, for some months now.…
Another Conservative Politician Escapes Toothless Ethics, Lobbying Commissioners
This week yet another Conservative politician slipped through the nets of the “independent” Commissioners whose job it is to lend a pretense of accountability to the Harper regime. This time…
Globe & Mail Claims it is Worth More Than the New York Times — And Will Charge Accordingly
It’s been a bad month for the Globe & Mail, Canada’s supposed paper of record. First it tried to suppress the Margaret Wente plagiarism scandal. Then it let one of…
Another Wente Column. Another Sixth Estate Investigation.
Margaret Wente has published another column, sans apology for specific “careless mistakes” (as she calls them) in the past and also complete with her unique pre-moderated comments section (since she…
In 2012, Only 27% of New Federal Judges are Women
Earlier this fall, the Harper regime appointed a new Supreme Court judge, Richard Wagner, who sits on the Quebec bench and is the son of a former Progressive-Conservative leadership contestant.…
Weeks After Plagiarism Scandal, Margaret Wente Still Suffering “Originality Breakdowns”
After brazening her way through a plagiarism scandal, Globe & Mail columnist Margaret Wente appears to be back on her exceptionally busy three-times-a-week pace, even though this hectic workstyle was…
Globe & Mail Pans EU Peace Prize: “War is Peace”
Even by the steadily declining standards of the Globe & Mail, Canada’s “paper of record” hit an unusual low in its angry and Orwellian response to the announcement that the…
National Post: Wente Plagiarism Affair “Creepy and Soviet” — Plus, More Quote-Lifting by Wente
After Globe & Mail resident plagiarist Margaret Wente returned to work this week following a brief hiatus to lick her wounds after plagiarism allegations from blogger Media Culpa went viral,…
Margaret Wente Returns, Issues Yet Another Apology for… “Careless Mistakes”
The Globe & Mail’s resident plagiarist and cheap-shot artist Margaret Wente has finally resurfaced after a mysterious two-week disappearance, with a typically vapid column on the U.S. election. Strangely, the…
Parliamentary Secrecy Continues: House Committees Spent 55% of Time in Camera in September
MPs are back at work and, under the Harper regime, that means that they are once again spending a considerable portion of their “public” time actually meeting behind closed doors,…
Next Failure of Harper-Style Corporate Self-Inspections May be a Major Airplane Crash
A few years ago, when the Harper regime was young and idealistic, they had a grand plan for the future of regulatory inspections in Canada — inspections of meat processing…
Somehow the Conference Board is Less Immune to Industry Pressure than the Federal Senate
In recent months the Canadian airline industry has been pushing, hard, for lower costs. Not content with having the Harper regime order its employees to work under threat of legal…
Plagiarism Bad. Wenteism Okay. Plus, Yet More Fake-Feminist Silliness from Margaret Wente
It’s a day that ends with a Y and we still haven’t received a genuine and contrite apology, sans political cheap shots, from the Globe & Mail’s chief plagiarist Margaret…