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'Cuts by stealth'
Rather than holding onto money they've won, they just keep feeding the machine until it's all gone. As fiscal years come to a close, offices that haven't exhausted their budgets often find ways to spend it anyway. It's an extremely wasteful practice ...
Labelling denial
News outlets have been quick to espouse pleas for parents to vaccinate their children, but it is often the media that gives initial credence to faulty science and fraudsters in the first place. It highlights an oft-mentioned but rarely addressed ...
Doors open
The doors may have just come off their hinges. Ob Tuesday, the long-awaited review panel report on the province's Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act (ATIPPA) was released. It basically annihilates every new initiative ...
Uncommon courtesy
When they find themselves in a public washroom, their arms and hands lose all strength to the point that they cannot even lift the toilet seat, forcing them to hose the entire place down, leaving the situation behind for whichever unfortunate comes ...
Dangerous precedent
As much as you wanted to escape from the charge, you’d have to wonder if something that blatant, that ridiculous, would even work.Well, in the self-serving world of Canadian federal politics, that’s exactly what’s happening.The federal access to ...
Marked cards
Not that it wasn’t already clear at the time.In September 2014, then-premier Tom Marshall released documents relating to the province’s negotiations on the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Deal (CETA). That was just before Paul Davis took ...
Oil tease
This time, it’s one of Statoil’s deep-water finds in the Flemish Pass Basin. Bay du Nord is the most promising of three prospects in the area, with an estimated reserve of between 300 million and 600 million barrels.But Davis pulled away from his ...
Dark ages
Marjory LeBreton was led off behind a curtain as reporters tried to approach her. Now retired, LeBreton was Conservative leader in the Senate when the Mike Duffy expense scandal broke.It was the latest in Harper’s increasingly bizarre determination ...
Lives matter
As you drive north from the famous land-locked fjord, the cliffs recede further inland, but are still very much a part of the landscape by the time you reach the community of Parson’s Pond.The town boasts some of the most beautiful, rugged scenery in ...
Rising falls
It wasn’t entirely unexpected, although the new price tag was curious: $6.99 billion.Not $6.9 billion or $7 billion, but $6.99 billion. It’s the kind of pricing gimmick you’d expect on a pair of sneakers at Walmart, not a giant dam across the ...