from The Vancouver Sun
VICTORIA — The week began with another lineup change in Christy Clark’s office, a common occurrence during her 18 months as premier of BC
Gone as director of communications to the premier was Sara MacIntyre, brought in just last March after Clark fired her first press secretary, Chris Olsen.
from The New York Times
LOS ANGELES — The battle to curb labor’s political clout has moved from Wisconsin to California, where wealthy conservatives are championing a ballot measure that would bar unions from donating to candidates. Labor leaders describe it as the starkest threat they have faced in a year of nationwide challenges to diminish their once-formidable power….
from Vancouver Observer
Anything the Conservative government doesn't want the public to know about will likely end up in the next omnibus bill, says opposition MP Nathan Cullen…
from the Lawyers' Committee
SAN DIEGO, CA — The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (Lawyers' Committee) has filed a lawsuit in Riverside County, California against a network of for-profit loan modification companies on behalf of 16 homeowners from California and five other states. The suit alleges that defendants defrauded vulnerable homeowners out of tens of thousands of dollars by falsely promising to obtain — for substantial upfront and monthly membership fees — much-needed mortgage modifications on the homeowners’ behalf, but consistently failing to deliver results.
from The Nation
Once again, political experts are predicting that the 2012 presidential election could be decided in the battleground state of Ohio, like it was in 2004…
from The Hill Times
At least five prospective or declared candidates for the Liberal Party leadership are forging ahead, despite the blast of media attention over Liberal MP Justin Trudeau and his leadership candidacy announcement last week, a Hill Times survey of the candidates or their top campaign aides shows…
from Al Jazeera
President Mohamed Morsi decrees pardon for political prisoners who were arrested during the revolution in 2011….
Eddie C Lovelace, a Kentucky judge still on the bench into his late 70s, had a penchant for reciting Shakespeare from memory and telling funny stories in his big, booming voice. But a car accident last spring left him with severe neck pain, and in July and August he sought spinal injections with a steroid medicine for relief.
Instead, Judge Lovelace died in Nashville in September at age 78, one of the first victims in a growing national outbreak of meningitis caused by the very medicine that was supposed to help him. Health officials say they believe it was contaminated with a fungus…
