Maureen Parker has put in a dozen years of “prep and work and lobbying and money, and sweat and tears” in an effort to get the federal government to regulate streaming services and ensure they help fund Canadian content. And now she’s worried that goal may slip away. Parker is the long-time executive director of...
Usurious phone bills take advantage of prisoners’ families and screw poor people: Morning File, Wednesday, March 8, 2017
News 1. Crown to appeal Al-Rawi verdict “Less than a week after Judge Gregory Lenehan acquitted a Halifax taxi driver of sexual assault in a controversial decision hinging on consent, the Public Prosecution Service says he ‘could have and should have’ found the driver guilty based on multiple grounds,” reports Haley Ryan for Metro: On […]