Thoughtful Comments on Current Issues
On the agenda required for the Alberta Notley government, see Andrew Nikiforuk on “Eight Steps to Reform the Broken Petrostate,” 9 May 2015, The Tyee:
http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2015/05/09/Notley-Steps-Reform-Broken-Petrostate/
Thanks to Margaret van Dijk: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the United States Supreme Court on gay marriage:
http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/ruth-bader-ginsburg-eviscerates-same-sex-marriage-opponents-court#.VUFsTI3f9mw.mailto
Thanks to Michiel Horn: Zach Paikin, son of Steve Paikin of TVO’s The Agenda, on the Harper Government:
http://www.hilltimes.com/opinion-piece/2015/04/28/big-ottawa-of-years-past-gone-but-not-too-late-to-visualize-a-big-canada/41955
Thanks to the Smart Justice Network for the link to this very important analysis of Canada’s criminal justice system by Professor Anthony Doob, Criminology at the University of Toronto and Professor Cheryl Webster, Criminology at the University of Ottawa:
http://policyoptions.irpp.org/issues/is-it-the-best-of-times-or-the-worst/doob-webster/
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