Pension deficits -- real, or not?
It's been said that in the recent labour disputes at Air Canada and Canada Post, one of the big issues was pensions.In Air Canada's case, yes, somewhat. In Canada Post's, not so much. Let's concede...
View ArticleThe NDP without Jack
As the NDP moves on -- with their caucus meeting in Quebec City and the beginning of a leadership race -- it's still not clear to them or anyone else what, exactly, Jack Layton represented to...
View ArticleNDP hopefuls must mind leadership money pit
Here's one thing for the growing list of NDP leadership candidates (as well as BQ and putative Liberal candidates) to keep in mind: Know the rules and don't borrow too much. For the Liberals...
View ArticleThe Year of the Woman (in provincial politics, anyway)
Kathy Dunderdale is the first elected female provincial premier in Canada since 1993 -- something to celebrate for sure, but you can't help wondering: How did 18 years go by, and the millenium turn...
View ArticleThe NDP can live with new leadership funding rules
Wednesday the government introduced new and fairly predictable rules for leadership candidates seeking loans, changes that that Marc Mayrand of Elections Canada had recommended. Individual loans will...
View ArticleDebates about to change NDP leadership race
The NDP Leadership is still in the "smaller event" stage. As one campaign volunteer put it, "It's not a campaign that's being fought in the media right now -- it's playing out in the church basements...
View ArticleIs Movember a partisan issue?
Members of Parliament who participate in Movember have split up into partisan teams, and at the top of the fundraising tally is the NDP. The NDP team (New-De-MO-crats) has raised, so far, more than...
View ArticleMoore shifts money from bureaucracy to the arts
James Moore, the Minister of Heritage, told the Canadian Heritage committee Thursday that the arts are good for the economy and pointed out that Canada is the only G8 country that actually increased...
View ArticleCanada gets moving on Open Government
It was no surprise that when the United States invited Canada to join an Obama-launched initiative called the Open Government Project, Canada promptly accepted.That was about two years ago. Now, with...
View ArticleThe push for Open Government - up to a point
Ottawa's six-week consultation period (which included Christmas and New Year's) on "open government" ends on Monday. A good question is: what came out of this call for feedback about how to make...
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Rule creates fear of flying for transgendered
Boarding a plane is more inconvenient than it used to be, but most of us do it without thinking: show your government issued photo ID and find your seat. For transgendered people, it's a different...
View ArticlePaying for our own surveillance
"We're talking Skype, we're talking web forums, it's a huge catchall, Facebook, Google, all of them. Facebook provides all the services that a TSP would: there's chat, the wall post... If you provide a...
View ArticleA family's fight for a soldier's honour
Sheila and Shaun Fynes' anguish spill out over the thousands of pages of evidence filed at the Military Police Complaints Commission. In conversations that go on for hours, where they don't so much...
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Video captures hours following soldier's suicide
In the Military Police Complaints Commission's cramped hearing room Thursday morning a hushed audience of lawyers and reporters watched a half-hour video. The video is part of a military investigation...
View ArticleWrzesnewskyj vs. Elections Canada over 'clerical errors'
In a supplementary factum filed in court late Friday, Borys Wrzesnewskyj's lawyers blast Elections Canada for taking what they call a partisan position, rather than the position of neutrality they say...
View ArticleEtobicoke Centre ruling has impact on future elections
The Supreme Court ruling Thursday on the 2011 election outcome in the Toronto riding of Etobicoke Centre means the experience of exercising your right to vote might change. And any voter or candidate...
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