The CBC Has No Business in the Car Seats of the Nation

Whatever one thinks of the CBC, it normally has a pretty smart crop of people running the show. It might be as sensationalized as the next network (insert reference the Guergis Jaffair), and many have questions about its ideological leanings, but it’s normally sufficiently professional in most circumstances.
As of yesterday, the CBC became the next [...]

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April 27, 2010  Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Blog Content  5 Comments

Gov’t Paper Flood to Cover Up Stimulus Advertising Cost: 200 Pages in a Single, Simple Request

As generals have their classic tactics in war – pincer, envelopment – governments have theirs in blocking the free-flow of information: paper flooding. A ‘paper flood’ is a torrent of documents sent in response to an Access to Information (ATIP) request with each detail buried in a vast pile of hardened pulp.
Recent requests by the [...]

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March 8, 2010  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: Blog Content  One Comment