Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Trish Hennessy crunches the numbers on vacation time for Canadians:47Percentage of Canadian workers who say they need a vacation more today than they’ve needed…
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Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Sixth Estate examines which party's candidates have violated the Canada Elections Act in recent elections. And it shouldn't be much surprise that Canada's…
Open to change
It's absolutely for the best that Paul Dewar is planning to reintroduce his bill to ensure a truly independent Parliamentary Budget Office. But what's most significant in determining whether the…
Just so we’re clear…
New rules for Canadian political reporting:If a federal government department is proposing to raise user fees, that has nothing to do with Tony Clement or any other Harper Con, particular…
Sunday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your long weekend.- Sixth Estate's evisceration of the Fraser Institute continues, this time with a response in substance to the claim that private-sector rent-seekers will somehow…
#G20 anniversary: Queen & Spadina, one year later
Hundreds of citizens arrested on bullshit pretexts.Detained arbitrarily in conditions that were gross violations of human rights.Subjected to racist, sexist, misogynistic and homophobic slurs and harassment.Assaulted indiscriminately.Beaten, tear-gasse...
Mistakes were made, Bill Blair says | #G20
So Bill Blair's had some time to reflect on last summer's G20 clusterfuck, and good and loyal servant he is, he's graced us with a report. Among other things, he…
On responsibility
Shorter Con instructions to ministers:If your underlings break the law based on your instructions, it's their own damn fault for taking orders. So go nuts!
Releasing Government Bad News Under Cover of a Hockey Game
Based on the bad news coming from the BC and Canadian governments under cover of game one of the Stanley Cup finals, we should be wary of the Canucks going…
Accountability from the #G20? Not gonna happen
From the Tumblr a couple of hours ago. Related posts: We ain't gonna have no stinkin' inquiry SIU re-opens another G20 investigation. Stop me if you've heard this before Michigan…
Shrugging off accountability
So, one of the items coming out of the G8 meeting last week was that Harper is going to “encourage” Parliament to vote to extend the Libya mission. It's a…
More allegations of police brutality at the G20: Gabriel Jacobs
More serving and protecting by the Toronto Police. (Yeah, right.) Via CBC and the Star, news that Gabriel Jacobs is filing a human rights complaint over the way he was…
Put lying cops on the stand and make them do it for the record
Not that it should take the focus off Harper and McGuinty, who bear just as much culpability as municipal officials for the abuses that took place at last summer's G20,…
On CBC, a further demonstration of Toronto cops’ contempt for us
On Metro Morning today, Matt Galloway talked to police union boss Mike McCormack about the nameless asshole who broke Dorian Barton's arm at the G20 last summer, and about the…
Toronto Police: Unaccountable, uncaring, unbelievable
The Star doesn't always get it right, but this time it's taken a centring pass in the slot and buried it in the top corner. When the provincial Special Investigations…
Stand Up for our Human Rights – SFL Labour Reporter
The following is the lead article from the May 2011 issue of the SFL Labour Reporter - the issue is dedicated to the protection of Human Rights, in Saskatchewan, Canada…
Stephen Harper is an Evil Astronaut – ShitHarperDid.com
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