Tag: John Ibbitson

Here’s more on how Chapter 19 works and why Canada thinks it’s important. The work of this panel – the Canadian Cultural Property Export Review Board – has been under scrutiny this summer after a court ruling that upended how Canada’s cultural property rules worked. The court ruling that has put the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion into doubt dimmed the hopes of many in Alberta, where businesses and workers in the oil patch were pinning their homes on a long-awaited economic recovery on the project. A lawyer for a family in Vancouver that owns a number of notorious low-income hotels say the city’s attempt to expropriate two properties is “draconian" and that local officials haven’t acted in good faith. A lawyer for the Sahota family, whose record of violations was documented in a Globe and Mail investigation, has filed a challenge of the expropriation attempt. And in what some are calling yet another dark day for Myanmar’s democracy, two Reuters journalists have been sentenced to jail for seven years for reporting on the country’s brutal treatment of Rohingya people. " A win later this month at the North American free-trade talks would go a long way to repairing the damage. But if those talks fail, the Liberals will be challenged to win the next election, a prospect that seemed unlikely mere months ago.” Margaret Wente (The Globe and Mail) on wildfires: “The trouble is that proper forest management is extremely expensive. Each country has to ultimately act in its own best interest in trade negotiations without relying on elusive goodwill among partners.” Help The Globe monitor political ads on Facebook: During an election campaign, you can expect to see a lot of political ads. The Globe and Mail wants to report on how these ads are used, but we need to see the same ads Facebook users are seeing.