Author Archives: bhaggart

Looking past the easy targets: Miles Corak on the cancellation of the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics

Posted on June 19, 2012 by bhaggart

It’s easy to be a critic: find something that annoys you and explain why you don’t like it. From the early Usenet flame wars, complaints and criticisms have been one of the Internet’s killer apps. It’s much, much harder to … Continue reading →

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Canadian copyright and the rise of user rights

Posted on June 19, 2012 by bhaggart

With Bill C-11 (legislative summary) moving ever-closer to Royal Assent, Michael Geist has a must-read post about how regular Canadians’ helped to make the final Conservative bill a lot more user-friendly than they had planned way back in 2007. For … Continue reading →

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The kneecapping of Canadian soft power (government budget cuts edition)

Posted on May 3, 2012 by bhaggart

This is not good news: Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada has been invited to review its operating and program expenses. This exercise is part of a more general effort aiming to reduce the deficit, modernize the government and to … Continue reading →

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On the move

Posted on April 27, 2012 by bhaggart

I’m very happy to announce that in July I will be joining the Department of Political Science at Brock University as an Assistant Professor. (As my brother suggested, I’ve clarified that my actual title is not Assistant to the Professor.) … Continue reading →

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Metaphor slinging, ends and means: Yet another plea for a rational copyright debate

Posted on April 27, 2012 by bhaggart

While slogging through my Google Reader backlog this morning, I came across this interesting Ars Technica post on “metaphor slinging” in the Copyright Wars. You know: is it “infringement” or is it “theft”? Asher Hawkins reminds us that people have been … Continue reading →

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