Free and fair collective bargaining makes a comeback in Ottawa | Jan 27 2016 | Teuila Fuatai | Canada's 17 public service unions have put their constitutional challenge against the government on hold after the Liberals promised to urgently repeal sections of Bill C-59.

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Service animals for mental health: An emerging issue in disability law | Jan 28 2016 | Katie Douglas, Pro Bono | The various rules addressing accessibility create a patchy framework that is not adequate to protect the rights of people with mental disabilities to the much‑needed assistance of a support animal.
Debunking FIPA: Canada's lopsided investment deal with China | Jan 28 2016 | Gus Van Harten | Canada's FIPA trade deal is lopsided in favour of China and foreign investors. Author Gus Van Harten debunks proponents of the deal and suggests ways the new government can limit FIPA's damage.
Sammy Yatim verdict as confusing as the incident itself and leaves many questions unanswered | Jan 28 2016 | Krystalline Kraus | There is no mystery here regarding who shot Sammy Yatim. But the jury's finding of not guilty of attempted murder is confusing.
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Line 9 shut down for a fourth time
Jan 27 2016 | Many have grave concerns about the likelihood of Enbridge's aging Line 9 potential to rupture. Valves on two of the pipelines were shut down on Monday by unknown persons.
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Legal victory for First Nations children must be followed by action
Jan 27 2016 | A ruling by the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal has confirmed that the federal government discriminated against First Nations children.
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Jan 27 2016 | The Premier says she only just learned about male-only campuses run by Algonquin, Niagara, and Centennial colleges in Saudi Arabia. That's implausible.
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Service animals for mental health: An emerging issue in disability law | Jan 28 2016 | Katie Douglas|Pro Bono | The various rules addressing accessibility create a patchy framework that is not adequate to protect the rights of people with mental disabilities to the much‑needed assistance of a support animal.
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Film exposes anti-abortion TRAP laws in U.S. | Jan 28 2016 | Amy Goodman|Denis Moynihan | TRAPPED is a moving documentary that premiered this week at the Sundance Film Festival, about how access to safe, legal abortions has come under assault in the U.S. through restrictive "TRAP" laws.
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Technology, journalism and the disruption of business as usual | Jan 27 2016 | Wayne MacPhail | A lot of thinking about disruption in general, and the disruption of the newsroom in particular, is facile and just plain wrongheaded.
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NDP to release new energy royalty framework at week's end -- brace yourself for Apocalypse Friday! | Jan 28 2016 | David J. Climenhaga | The royalty framework to be released Friday by Premier Rachel Notley will be both a technical and a political document of considerable importance.
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Questions about the Liberal government's pipeline review process | Jan 28 2016 | Brent Patterson | The Trudeau government's interim regulations for pipeline review processes are a good first step, but there are questions and fundamental issues that still need to be addressed.
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More of the world's wealth is owned by fewer people -- and our share of the rest of it is collapsing | Jan 28 2016 | John McMurtry | The Oxfam Davos Report shows that 62 individuals now own more wealth than 50 per cent of the world's population. And this share of wealth by half of the world has collapsed by over 40 per cent.
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Debunking FIPA: Canada's lopsided investment deal with China
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What do you think about the Liberals' interim review process for pipelines?

The Liberal government announced that it will be launching an interim review process for pipeline projects, which will impose new steps on existing projects like the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain and Enbridge Energy East pipelines.

On Wednesday, five principles of the new environmental assessment process were released, including "decisions will be based on science, traditional knowledge of Indigenous peoples and other relevant evidence" and "the views of the public and affected communities will be sought and considered."

What do you think about the Liberals' interim review process for pipelines?

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