The Conservative Election Platform: Freedom of Expression Commitment Tainted By Support for Payments for Links, Restrictions on Fair Dealing
The Conservative Party released its election platform yesterday, providing a lengthy document that covers a myriad of policy issues. From a digital policy perspective, there are positions sprinkled throughout the document, covering everything from a new innovation policy (an issue that the Liberals de-emphasized over the past two years and the Conservatives are right to target) to labour rights for gig workers.
Free-speech advocate Rick Mehta hopes to “shed light of transparency in Nova Scotia politics”
The former psychology professor is running as an Atlantica Party candidate. He first rose to prominence in 2018 after being fired from Acadia University due to his “controversial” comments regarding Indigenous issues and gender politics.
Here’s where federal parties stand on firearms control as cities like Montreal suffer a summer of gun violence
A recent spike in gun violence in Quebec — which saw a triple homicide in Montreal on Aug. 2 and two more fatal shootings in the same week — has reinvigorated criticism of the federal government’s proposed legislation on gun control and prompted calls for new measures ahead of the federal election.
Only Days After Afghanistan’s Fall, China Mobilizes Warships & Jet Fighters, Hits U.S. with Aggressive New Demands on Taiwan
China isn’t wasting any time seizing upon a U.S. Commander-in-Chief’s weakness and inability to lead. The Communist nation is making overtures towards taking aggressive action against the island nation of Taiwan, which China has long claimed is actually its territory.
Joe Biden: Master Of Disaster
Biden so abruptly and ineptly screwed up Afghanistan policy that he has managed to unite both liberals and conservatives, each horrified.
Iran accelerates enrichment of uranium to near weapons-grade, IAEA says
Iran increased the purity to which it is refining uranium to 60% fissile purity from 20% in April in response to an explosion and power cut at its Natanz site that damaged output at the main underground enrichment plant there.
