Paying protection money to Access Copyright Act not legitimate
Re: the opinion piece by Chrisopher Moore of Access Copyright (The Hill Times, Oct. 3) should sound familiar: pay us money and we will remove the threat that we represent. The article contains considerable misinformation.The educational community isn’t asking to get for free something that should be legitimately paid for. While the language of “exceptions”is […]
House Heritage Committee members vow to ask CBC management some tough questions on seven-week lockout
Liberal and opposition MPs say they all have some probing, difficult questions for the CBC’s top brass later on Oct. 27. Government and opposition MPs on the House Heritage Committee say they will ask the senior management of the CBC some tough questions on Oct. 27 when they appear before the committee about the way […]
Libs afraid of ‘honest’ Stephen Harper: reader
Re: “Liberals still talking about a fall election,”(The Hill Times, Oct. 3). I thought the Liberals anointed rather than elected their leaders.They do not even do internal politics democratically. Liberals stink of the corruption, lies and opportunism and this stink pervades our current government. I think the Liberals desperately want to replace Conservative Leader Stephen […]
More Copyright Act feedback
Re: “Licensing will solve the schools’ copyright challenge,”(The Hill Times, Oct. 3). Has Christopher Moore ever driven past a billboard? Did he look at what was posted there? Would he be upset if he received a bill for doing so? Because that’s the offline equivalent to his proposal. Yes, if you want to charge for […]
Ibbitson on ills of Canadian polity
The Globe and Mail’s political affairs columnist John Ibbitson’s just-released book The Polite Revolution: Perfecting the Canadian Dream takes a wry look at the ills of the Canadian polity and it’s a bit of a slap in the head. Mr. Ibbitson says two great global migrations are underway: from poorer countries to richer countries and […]
Conservative divide questions
Was the “conservative divide”over with the acceptance of the merger of the Alliance and Progressive Conservative parties on Dec. 7, 2003? Events since would suggest otherwise. There were Progressive Conservative MPs who either retired or ran as Liberals. A court challenge to the manner in which the Chief Electoral Officer accepted the merger is still […]
The thin line that separates public policy and politics
Paul Martin’s government is keenly aware that vacating a decades-old place in the non-proliferation vanguard will be good for Liberal prospects in an election that is months, if not weeks, away. Would the federal Liberals abandon Canada’s historic opposition to the spread of nuclear weapons just to win votes? No, that would be too cynical […]
Dion optimistic about Kyoto, but opposition says Canada lacks credibility and Tories say ‘it’s a dead dog, stop petting it’
Environment Minister Stephane Dion who will chair the UN Climate Change Conference next month says he’s optimistic Kyoto will finally be implemented, but without the U.S. on side, he’s not sure how the fight to slow down global warming will succeed. Calling it “one of the greatest events our country has ever held,”Environment Minister Stephane […]
Canada too globally interdependent
Re: Michael Orr’s letter published in the Aug. 29 issue of The Hill Times ,”Canada not so innocent.”I relate Mr. Orr’s comments to a letter I recently wrote to Lloyd Axworthy, president of the University of Winnipeg and a former Canadian foreign affairs minister. I was addressing Mr. Axworthy’s dissertation, which appeared in TheToronto Star, […]
Whistleblower protection passed in House of Commons
There are five fatal flaws with Bill C- 11, the Whistleblower Protection Bill, that was passed in the House last Tuesday, says Democracy Watch coordinator Duff Conacher. “It won’t set up a system strong enough to protect whistleblowers,”Mr. Conacher told The Hill Times. Mr. Conacher said the new bill’s flaws include: the fact that the […]
