Irwin Cotler (LPC – Mount Royal, QC) announced his
intention to retire, and that he would not seek re-election in 2015. Cotler is a great endorsement for career politicians. He is an expert in his
field of law and human rights and has brought great weight to the these
discussion during his tenure.
Martin Regg Cohn writes in the Toronto Star about dissatisfied New Democrats in Ontario. Andrea Horwarth (ONDP - Hamilton Centre) refuses to clearly embrace a minimum
wage increase. Left-wing groups in Ontario were endorsing a $14/hour wage, and
Horwath refused to publicly endorse the increase to $11/hour. Cohn classifies
this as the ONDP becoming a populist rather than a progressive party. I’m
inclined to agree.
Today was budget day in the Northwest Territories. CBC
North summarized the budget as presented by Finance Minister Michael
Miltenberger today.
The so-called Fair
Elections Act is a law the federal government intends to pass quickly and
quietly this month and change the way our elections are run. Chantal Hébert
speculates on the motivations behind these changes which will make it harder to
vote, and reduce oversight.
In addition the Conservative government intends to use
time allocation to push the 242-page piece of legislation. This piece summarizes the bill nicely.
Andrew Coyne writing on the effectively meaningless “Senate reform” Justin Trudeau undertook.
Related to my post on Tuesday, former-Senator Hugh Segal
writes on behalf of the basic annual income.
Robyn Doolittle released “Crazy Town” this week detailing
the journalistic investigation into Rob Ford, and in particular his drug use.
If the rest of the book is like this preview chapter it must be an amazing
read.
From Spacing, Toronto, as a region, has about 6 million people.
Cities the world over have great difficulty making the jump from 6 million into
the next tier as their infrastructure reaches a limit. The author suggests that
Toronto’s broken political culture and NIMBYism is preventing it from becoming aworld-class city.
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