June 13, 2015 “I am appalled by this inside job appointment … how can we trust Mr. Protti’s independence, objectivity and judgment?” – Rachel Notley, NDP environment critic, April 2013.…
June 13, 2015 A Petroliam Nasional Bhd.-led group of companies elected to proceed with a $36-billion natural gas shipping project on Canada’s Pacific Coast with conditions, marking the first investment…
June 11, 2015 Last week saw the long-awaited report from Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), which chronicles the injustices faced by Aboriginal children attending residential schools in decades past.…
In June 2015, after seven years of collecting evidence the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada released its 388-page executive summary, centred on the TRC’s 94 recommendations and written as…
June 15, 2015 KENORA – POLITICS – One of the most basic but most important jobs that governments do is to develop and maintain infrastructure. Whether it’s roads and other…
June 15, 2015 Tom Isaac of Olser named federal representative on engagement with Métis and other legal moves and grooves Osler’s Isaac to lead feds’ Métis engagement program Federal Minister of…
Jun. 15, 2015 Tom Flanagan is professor emeritus of political science at the University of Calgary and chair of the Aboriginal Futures program for the Frontier Centre for Public Policy.…
June 11, 2015 A new report by SNL Metals & Mining shows mining financing in the first quarter of the year coming in nowhere near the capital raised in 2013…
June 12, 2015 Canada’s Auditor General released his long-awaited report into senators’ spending this week. Michael Ferguson found a number of senators who appear to have broken the rules, including…
Jun. 12, 2015 Jim Fulton was a wonderful man, a fine member of Parliament and a friend who died way too young at the age of 58 in 2008. With…