by Gerry Nicholls I hate to throw cold water on all the hoopla associated with 30th anniversary of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, but it should be remembered that this document has sometimes failed to protect individual rights. There are four cases in particular that spring to my mind: Forced Union Dues Merv Lavigne [...]
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When the Charter Failed
Posted on 17 April 2012.
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Heritage Minister Defends CBC Instead of Taxpayers
Posted on 04 February 2012.
by Gerry Nicholls Heritage Minister James Moore needs a new title. He should be called the Minister in Charge of Defending the CBC. After all, that’s what he seems to be doing a lot of these days. Indeed, he seems to care more about protecting the CBC than he does about protecting taxpayers. Case in [...]
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CBC Doesn’t Belong to Me
Posted on 31 October 2011.
The following Letter to the Editor was published in the Ottawa Citizen. It was a response to this Janice Kennedy column: Dear Sir/Madam: Columnist Janice Kennedy claims the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation “belongs to us – all of us”. (“CBC belongs to Rob Ford, too”, October 29.) Really? If something truly belongs to me, doesn’t that [...]
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Courts are milking their power for all it’s worth
Posted on 20 October 2011.
by Karen Selick When you had breakfast this morning, did you pour milk on your cereal or in your tea? Did you give your child a glass of milk? According to a recent decision of the Ontario Court of Justice, you had no right to do that. Dairy farmer Michael Schmidt has been campaigning to [...]
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Little Kremlin on the Prairie
Posted on 19 October 2011.
by Gerry Nicholls Note: Now that the Conservative government is about to pull the plug on the Canadian Wheat Board monopoly, I thought it would be a good time to post an article I wrote on this topic back in 2005. This article originally appeared in Business Report Magazine. ***** There are two great unsolved mysteries when [...]
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Time for the CBC to grow up and move out
Posted on 14 September 2011.
by David Krayden Lest we forget, it was a Conservative government under Prime Pinister R.B. Bennett that created what became the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). That federal government was also the last led by the Conservative party (before it added the dreaded “Progressive” prefix to its official title) until the advent of Stephen Harper and [...]
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