by Christopher Reynolds SNC-Lavalin CEO Neil Bruce is photographed in Toronto on March 20, 2019. Only a handful of SNC-Lavalin Group Inc.§s rivals have received deferred prosecution agreements in the past five years, a Canadian Press analysis reveals. The low count appears to contradict remarks by CEO Neil Bruce The Canadian Press last month […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhEVbXrja9o Judge Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond joins CPAC’s Martin Stringer to discuss the audio recording Jody Wilson-Raybould provided to the justice committee of a conversation she had with Clerk of the Privy Council Michael Wernick on SNC-Lavalin.
Documents reveal ‘cosy’ relationship between the government, the banking industry and its watchdog Erica Johnson, Enza Uda · CBC News Public policy researcher Ken Rubin looks through drafts of the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada’s report on bank sales practices, which he obtained using Access to Information. (Andrew Lee/CBC) Last year’s report from Canada’s banking […]
Lengthy with good information, set in the international context of water shortages. == = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Just 90 minutes from Toronto, residents of a First Nations community try to improve the water situation as the beverage company extracts from their land Alexandra Shimo […]
If you are short of time, scroll down to the coloured text. Since the death of Alexandre Grothendieck in November 2014, there have been a number of books and articles about this enigmatic man who earned a reputation as “the greatest pure mathematician of the twentieth century”. Grothendieck invented ways of thinking that were highly […]
The last email I sent out was: 2019-03-14 For your selection, March 23. B.C. Supreme Court Judge says Water is a commodity. http://sandrafinley.ca/?p=24195 UPDATES re possible APPEAL of the Judge’s decision are at: 2019-03-14 B.C. Supreme Court Judge says: Water is a commercial commodity http://sandrafinley.ca/?p=24177 = = = = = = = = = […]
To Mike: Maybe I am using you as a sounding board. I am quite frustrated this morning by the coverage I’ve heard about the SNC Lavalin matter. I see it as related to the situation at StatsCan – – of which I have a long view back to 2003. My reply to you is […]
The Guardian published this under the title: Bavarian ‘save the bees’ success raises green hopes in Germany Green party hopes to make hay in elections after state adopts well-backed petition Kate Connolly in Berlin A ‘save the bees’ demonstration in Munich in February. Photograph: Sachelle Babbar/Zuma/Rex/Shutterstock Environmentalists in Germany are celebrating a decision by Bavaria […]
RELATED: 2018-08-18 SIGNIFICANCE EXPLAINED: U of Saskatchewan taken to Court, Refuses to disclose Right to Know symposium proceedings The Newsweek story is related to the court case against the U of Saskatchewan. Prof Stuart Smyth is the Bayer-Monsanto mouthpiece. It is curious to me that Newsweek would publish the article and not disclose the industry […]