The Standing Committee on Finance of the House of Commons has heard submissions on private member’s Bill C-377, which would amend the Income Tax Act of Canada to require labour organizations (including unions) to file 29 schedules of financial information with the Federal Minister of National Revenue, who would then be required to post them…
The Economist recently ran an article in which it advocated three policy priorities that are intended to advance the cause of social equality: A “Rooseveltian” [Teddy, that is] attack on monopolies and vested interests. Included in the Economist’s list of targets are: “school reform” and introducing choice in education; and getting rid of distortions, such…
The most recent example of an employee who exercised questionable judgment (to say the least) online is the individual who posted crude and offensive comments about the death of Amanda Todd, the teenager who recently committed suicide after suffering years of bullying. Although the online comments were not made in his capacity as an employee,…
While perhaps one needs to give them credit for chutzpah, the CAW’s recent proposal for protecting the automotive sector from foreign competition seems motivated by a desire to return to the past, or at least to postpone the future. No doubt, the economy is undergoing wrenching structural change, and institutions that grew and prospered under the…
With the media covering the suspension of the manager of the Florida Marlins for his ill-advised praise of Fidel Castro, and employers asking for their employees’ Facebook passwords, the question of freedom of speech at work is once again in the news. Canadians enjoy a constitutional right to freedom of expression. Does this mean that…