Crossposted at opencanada.org’s Dispatch blog Last fall, I participated in a workshop hosted by L’Idée Fédérale, a think tank in Montreal headed by one of our Roundtable bloggers, André Pratte.…
For the past eight months I have had the thrill of working with the CIC to answer the following question: what if the CIC wanted to build the online hub…
In Di Tomaso v. Crown Metal Packaging Canada LP, 2011 ONCA 469, a decision of the Ontario Court of Appeal released June 22, 2011, the appellant, Crown Metal Packaging ("CMP")…
Statistics Canada has just released their ‘Police-reported crime statistics in Canada, 2010’ report (link). And it supports what many have been saying for some time: Police-reported crime reaches its lowest…
With the campaign fully underway I have not had much time at all to write new blog posts. I'll try to get back in the habit of once a week…
David Cameron and Rupert Murdoch and all their minions are running a PR campaign on the News International scandal, telling people to keep it "in perspective." It's not really a…
Still more signs PDO lives in the past ...Thanks to an old pal.
Well this article is an interesting addition to the swirl of debate and exposé that's happening around Rupert Murdoch. The attached article is from J-Wire and is written by Isi…
The case for expanding benefits under the CPP as a needed response to the crisis of private pensions continues to win expert support – even as the financial industry and…
America's UN ambassador, Susan Rice, must have a bottomless well of gall, given the way she chastised other Security Council members cold to the idea of declaring climate change a…
This is insanity. Ford campaigned on a promise not cut city services and now he’s about to make $740 million in major service cuts. Including, eliminating 2,000 subsidized daycare spots,…
That's what David Suzuki had to say about the Ontario Liberal plan to keep Ontario's economy on track by creating green jobs and helping our environment.http://www.thestar.com/mobile/news/canada/politics/article/1028008--suzuki-warns-tory-scheme-to-can...
No, crime isn't going away but, even as Ruler Steve indulges his prison fetish, crime rates continue to go down - a lot.StatsCan said police-reported crime rates fell a whopping…
Imagine yourself among the thousands and thousands of people gathered for the final game of the Canucks/Bruins Stanley Cup. It's easy to assume you're virtually invisible in the sea of…
Whether it is a food, air, or water-borne virus, or a strange and hitherto undocumented brain condition, there is no question that police facial recognition skills are declining, calling into…
Former Conservative finance minister John Collins is fighting the Muskrat Falls project as fervently as ever. The 80-something has a new letter in the Telegram taking issue with recent comments…
....Did the Conradian pot really call the Rupertian kettle out for being blacker than he himself could ever possibly be?RUPERT Murdoch is probably the most successful media proprietor and operator…
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Henry Farrell points out why supposedly progressive ideas which don't do anything to counter corporate power are doomed to failure:Neo-liberals tend to favor…
These sexy buildings are right down the street from us. Allan and I both like them a lot, and have watched their progress in the Mississauga skyline with interest. Apparently…
Here, on how the TILMA's regressive trade rules are spreading across Canada in other forms. For further reading...- I've posted several times before about just some of the problems with…
