The head of Canada’s statistics agency resigned Friday in a torrent of indignation about the future of his employer. In fact, it remains to be seen if the gloomy view of Wayne Smith is accurate. Mr. Smith feels that decisions made by the Conservatives, and evidently left in place by the Liberals, will make Statscan a mere puppet of something called Shared Services Canada. Ugh. Sounds like the Ministry of Everything. Read it here.
ABOLISHED IN 1990
Lawyers are saying that Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Denny Thomas relied on a section of the Criminal Code that has been declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of Canada in writing a critical verdict this week. Even more astonishing, they say that section 230 on which Judge Thomas relied in convicting Travis Vader, remains in the Criminal Code 25 years after the Court’s decision. There is much wringing of hands about why judges don’t know the law better but this would also seem to be a statement about how little MPs (and others) think of the Supremes.
NORDSTROM OPENS
Reporters are offering their guarded opinion that Nordstrom, newly opened in the Eaton Centre, will not make the same mistakes as Target when it came to Canada. Well, Nordstrom it may or may not get it right but on the surface the comparison seems silly. Nordstrom will open many fewer stores much more slowly to an entirely different clientele. This is a battle with Holt Renfrew and there may be enough money to go round.
https://twitter.com/NordstromEaton/status/757937782790717440
