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Ford government appeals to Canada’s top court to keep premier’s mandate letters secret
Wednesday, March 30th, 2022
Mandate letters traditionally lay out the marching orders a premier has for each of his or her ministers after taking office — and have been routinely released by governments across the country. Ford’s government, however, has been fighting to keep his mandate letters from the public since shortly after the premier took office in June 2018… It’s unclear how many tax dollars and government resources have been spent trying to deny the public access to the mandate letters.
Tags: ideology, jurisdiction, rights
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New evidence that hospital pressured to axe doctor who criticized Ford government on pandemic
Tuesday, March 29th, 2022
It’s been more than a year since Dr. Brooks Fallis was suddenly fired in January as interim head of critical care at William Osler Health System, in the hardest-hit part of Ontario. Fallis was respected and admired by peers and employers. He was also a passionate, incisive critic of the government’s pandemic response. One was given more weight by his bosses than the other.
Tags: Health, ideology, jurisdiction, rights
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Some key details in the “confidence and supply” deal between the Liberals, NDP
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2022
The NDP will not move a vote of non-confidence, nor vote for a non-confidence motion during the term of the arrangement; Parties agree on the importance of parliamentary scrutiny and the work done by MPs at committees; Meetings of party leaders at least once per quarter, as well as regular meetings of House leaders and whips… to identify priority bills to expedite through the House of Commons… Parties agree to prioritize [the following]…
Tags: budget, child care, crime prevention, featured, Health, housing, ideology, Indigenous, pharmaceutical, rights, standard of living, tax, women
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Migrant workers make our agricultural industry viable. Why do we treat them as disposable?
Monday, March 21st, 2022
Employers — who are supposed to pay for the consequences of workplace injuries and disease — instead benefit financially from the WSIB’s discriminatory policies. Employers are getting richer on the backs of injured workers. This year, the government has decided to give a $1.5 billion rebate to employers, rather than support injured workers.
Tags: disabilities, economy, ideology, jurisdiction, poverty, rights, standard of living
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There’s a fix to disinformation: Make social media algorithms transparent
Thursday, March 17th, 2022
In the period of newspaper and broadcast dominance, anyone could find out what news their neighbours were consuming just by opening the paper or turning on the TV. In the social media era, many of those interactions are dark. The solution is algorithmic transparency. But this is easier said than done, because the algorithms are the special sauce in the platforms… So far, lawmakers have listened politely, but not acted.
Tags: featured, globalization, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, rights
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Ontario’s new gig-work bill might as well be written on DoorDash letterhead
Monday, March 7th, 2022
The Digital Platform Workers’ Rights Act may look as if it’s intended to bring app-based employers in line — but it’s not the change we need… Changing the law to define these workers as employees would obviate the need for any of these proposed changes. It would enshrine the rights of these workers along with those of everyone else.
Tags: economy, ideology, jurisdiction, rights, standard of living
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Hard lessons from the siege of Ottawa
Monday, February 28th, 2022
… there is… no guarantee that the undeniable presence in Canada of disinformation-fuelled rage won’t grow. Civil society must resolve to push back against the ugly forces that caused the chaos and criminality in our national capital… It will require long overdue regulation of social media companies making obscene profits while failing to take responsibility for campaigns of hate and racism on their platforms.
Tags: featured, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, rights
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Ottawa convoy protest points to a failure of civic education in Canada
Wednesday, February 23rd, 2022
… Canadians will get an education in civics one way or another… Will it come from a robust and informed curriculum that teaches citizens about basic institutions like parliamentary democracy, charter rights and the differences between federal and provincial jurisdiction? Or will we simply leave it to YouTube, Facebook and other social media platforms to fill in the void?
Tags: ideology, jurisdiction, participation, rights
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Sadness rules the day as Ottawa protest comes to an end
Tuesday, February 22nd, 2022
It was heartbreaking to see so many, ill-informed and hurting, fight for a cause they believe they are defending… Perhaps it was because they were repeatedly lied to… threats of violence… hate on display… so little consideration for the residents of downtown Ottawa… It was sad the residents of Ottawa felt the police couldn’t be trusted to enforce the law… It was sad that Ontario stood on the sidelines of the crisis for so long…
Tags: crime prevention, featured, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, rights
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Solutions exist for Canada’s alt-right radicalization
Sunday, February 20th, 2022
Canadians promote respect for the rule of law, but the protests have documented the truth: the law treats Canadians differently based on their skin colour. RCMP are quickly militarized to push Indigenous people off their land when they blockaded pipelines, but police have not removed white protesters with the same vigour. The hypocrisy of the last three weeks erodes trust in all our institutions.
Tags: ideology, jurisdiction, participation, rights
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