Yukon PEDAM
I had a great time delivering the Principles of EDA Management course in Whitehorse!
Yukon PEDAM
I had a great time delivering the Principles of EDA Management course in Whitehorse!
Enemies lists and members bills
The Harper Cons are warning new and shuffled Cabinet ministers about who their friends and enemies are: On the “Transition Binder Check List” are 10 items, such as: “What to…
My postgrad journey
After almost seven months I’m coming to the end of the classroom portion of my corporate communications and public relations program. I’ve learned many things over the course of seven…
Separated At Birth?
Both Richard Nixon and Stephen Harper certainly seem to have been raised with the same bedtime story, and to have taken it at face value. Recommend this Post
In Tuesday’s Sun: the pipsqueak and the cabinet
Sometimes, in political life, you get credit for what you do. More commonplace are those occasions where you get none. Consider, then, Stephen Harper’s newly minted cabinet. Unveiled Monday, the…
My sweetie has a blog
One of the labour movement’s great minds and most driven, brilliant researchers has a blog. Oh and did I mention she’s got great taste in partners? She’ll be mostly following…
All Sound and Fury, Signifying Nothing…
Many people were waiting for the on the horizon cabinet shuffle in Ottawa that finally took place today. Pundits saw it as an opportunity for a scandal plagued government to…
PMO Asks Ministerial Staff To Prepare Briefing Binders For New Ministers With ‘Blacklist’ Of Problem Civil Servants And ‘Enemy Reporters’ …
OTTAWA – In the lead-up to Monday’s cabinet shuffle, ministerial staffers were asked to develop lists of troublesome bureaucrats and “enemy” stakeholders, Global News has learned.The information was to be…
MobileSyrup: Telus to increase prices of its monthly plans
Canada, you gave Big Telecom a chance to listen and provide better service – but they’re still up to their old tricks. Don’t you think it’s time to open up…
Arviat children eat fewer than 3 fruit per month: Researcher says children also eat little local caribou and fish
“We found some terrible things. You know, most of our students are eating caribou meat only once a week. They’re eating fish only once a month. They’re eating fruit on…
Custody arrangements of children cannot be used to punish contempt
Chan v. Town, 2013 ONCA 478 holds: We therefore set aside the finding of contempt. It is nevertheless necessary to state that the remedy imposed by the motion judge was…
Now he tells us
A tip of the hat to impolitical for alerting me to this from a couple of days ago: Bob Rae has joined the National Advisory Board of Fair Vote Canada.…
Stephen Harper and the Grotesque Con Cabaret
Gawd. What a difference a day makes eh?Yesterday they were just youraverage barn yard grunters.Today they're pretty in pork.But you really can't put lipstick on them, because they're still the…
July 2012 Bits and Bites: Paul Fromm Edition
Not surprisingly, Paulie and his cohorts are quite pleased about the demise of Section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act: Seig heil, eh? But as happy as Paulie and…
What The Dirty Energy Industry Earns From Millions In Lobbying
When you combine the lobbies of electric utilities (representing the coal industry) and the lobbies of oil and gas interests, there is no industry that puts more money into buying…