At issue is whether Turner violated the code of ethics that all public servants must adhere to — one that mandates they be impartial and non-partisan.
At the same time, the courts have upheld public servants’ right to engage in political activity.
Part of the question is whether an individual’s Charter right to freedom of expression trumps any employment agreements which is something the Supreme Court has upheld.
That last point is especially relevant as the songwriter does perform in his personal life, completed this project on his personal time and it has no direct bearing on the type of work he does on a day-to-day basis.
The song has created a “Streisand Effect” where, by trying to hide/remove/censor something that someone doesn’t like, they actually give it more attention (in fact, this video is heading towards half a million views as I type this)
One of my pet peeves is people who say that all politicians are the same.
It is true that there are good and bad people in every party but the level of corruption and criminality in the current Conservative party is unparalleled in Canadian history.
I took this picture when we were back to Indian Head for a visit a few years ago but the look of the building including that 1980’s colour scheme hasn’t changed. (The playground however has changed quite a bit.)
We went past my elementary school during a more recent visit and when I pointed the school out to Pace, he asked “Did you take the bus to school like I do?” Nope, city kid, we had to walk to school when I was a boy – only the lucky farm kids got to ride on a bus!
There are a whole host of interconnected reasons why this is the case. But I think one of the largest is the fact that gun ownership is enshrined in the US Constitution. That makes it extremely difficult for their society, even anti-gun activists, to change a deeply held belief, even though the rule was written 300 years ago in a time of muskets and meant to defend against an enemy that was an ocean by sailing ship away.
No matter your politics, the late Jim Flaherty (who was Stephen Harper’s Finance Minister) is widely regarded as a stand-up guy – honest, sincere, and reliable.
Tim Powers, vice-chairman of Summa Strategies and a Conservative strategist, had this to say after viewing the video: “If a picture tells a thousand words I imagine many of Jim’s would have been ‘holy’ and ‘shit’.”
Our new research leaves little doubt about whether Google has the ability to control voters. In laboratory and online experiments conducted in the United States, we were able to boost the proportion of people who favored any candidate by between 37 and 63 percent after just one search session. The impact of viewing biased rankings repeatedly over a period of weeks or months would undoubtedly be larger.
The article touches both on search engine optimization techniques but also Google’s potential ability to manipulate results under the guise of giving the best results but how that is always subject to interpretation and if Google happens to favour a candidate seen as better for powerful tech companies so much the better.
