The Canadian Government announced today that Employment Insurance (EI) benefits will be extended to families of seriously ill children. It will allow parents or legal guardians of minor children with…
Read Jennifer Ditchburn in the Globe and Mail – Senate stubborn on making information about chamber more accessible. It is laughable about how hard the Canadian Senate makes it to…
The Facts: The Prime Ministers fundraising rules for ministers and parliamentary secretaries (called Accountable Government) state: “There should be no singling out, or appearance of singling out, of individuals or…
The Facts: The Prime Ministers fundraising rules for ministers and parliamentary secretaries (called Accountable Government) state: “There should be no singling out, or appearance of singling out, of individuals or…
The Facts: The Prime Ministers fundraising rules for ministers and parliamentary secretaries (called Accountable Government) state: “There should be no singling out, or appearance of singling out, of individuals or…
The Facts: The Prime Ministers fundraising rules for ministers and parliamentary secretaries (called Accountable Government) state: “There should be no singling out, or appearance of singling out, of individuals or…
Theresa Lubowitz on the Death of Substantive Policy Canada is teetering dangerously close to the death of substantive policy as we know it, with the rise of a populist Conservative…
So it was that MP Charlie Angus, the NDP’s self-appointed guardian of civility, has declared that Twitter has “turned us all into 14-year-olds in a cafeteria” where “verybody gets to…
Some of you may know that I sit on the board of directors for OpenNorth – a cool little non-profit that is building tools for citizens, governments and journalists to…
Photograph by/Photo par Montrealais. UPDATE (Sept. 27, 2012) Olivia appears to be willing to consider the idea of running for mayor!At least, she’s not ruling it out! “We’ll see what…
WTF does not even begin to convey my complete and utter shock and disgust… Today, in the House of Commons, during Question Period, the interim leader of the Liberal Party…
This post isn’t based on a poll I’ve conducted or some rigorous methodology, rather it has evolved out of conversations I’ve had with friends, thought leaders I’ve run into, articles…
Yesterday, Tom Slee wrote a blog post called “Why the ‘Open Data Movement’ is a Joke,” which – and I say this as a Canadian who understands the context in…
The other day the Canadian Government published its Action Plan on Open Government, a high level document that both lays out the Government’s goals on this file as well as…
I've been lagging on my task of researching possible actions to receive a similar result but looks as though Paul Madger has taken this on. I just had to share…
I’ve been lagging on my task of researching possible actions to receive a similar result but looks as though Paul Madger has taken this on. I just had to share…
Okay, let’s geek out on some open data portal stats from data.gc.ca. I’ve got three parts to this review: First, an assessment on how to assess the value of data.gc.ca.…
The government announced that it will be introducing legislation to ban the practice of Credit Cards sending unsolicited "cheques" in the mail. I'm all for that! First the cheques themselves…
The government announced that it will be introducing legislation to ban the practice of Credit Cards sending unsolicited “cheques” in the mail. I’m all for that! First the cheques themselves…
The Transparent Hypocrisy of Ethical Oil – who is really laudering money
The other week the Canadian Minister of the Environment, Peter Kent accused Canadian Charities of “laundering money” because they accept some funds from outside the country. This is all been…