By Alison@Creekside The Public Safety Committee report on the G-20 tabled in the House on Friday calls for an independent inquiry into the decision-making by all levels of government that resulted in – the outrageous cost – the unprecedented arrests of over 1100 people, including journalists and people on their way home from work – […]
Tony Clement
The Conservatives’ cupcake budget
By Montreal Simon OMG. I was watching the Evan Solomon show today, and there was Julie Fantino making a complete idiot out of himself, by dismissing this poll of CARP members: 62% say it is NOT a budget which benefits older Canadians. 58% say they do NOT agree with the budget overall. 54% say the […]
Clement leads anti-UBB forces down slippery slope
By Frank Moher So, all you digerati who are celebrating this morning because the Conservatives have told the CRTC to rescind its decision on user based internet billing, or else: do you really want the federal government calling the shots on this? The Tories especially? One can’t help but admire the campaign run by openmedia.ca […]
Munir Sheikh, StatsCan Jedi
By Alison@Creekside Munir Sheikh, head of Statistics Canada, in his resignation letter (which has already been removed from the StatsCan website): “I want to take this opportunity to comment on a technical statistical issue which has become the subject of media discussion. This relates to the question of whether a voluntary survey can become a […]
