Author Archives: bhaggart

Book launch! From "Radical Extremism" to "Balanced Copyright": Canadian Copyright and the Digital Agenda

Posted on October 11, 2010 by bhaggart

I’ve been quiet on the blog lately, distracted by paying work (not related to copyright), finishing up the dissertation and applying for postdocs and the like, but I couldn’t let this pass without notice. Michael Geist has put together a … Continue reading →

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Access to Information by the Numbers (II)

Posted on August 15, 2010 by bhaggart

More success! Last week, after waiting almost three years, I finally received a response to my Access to Information request from Foreign Affairs and International Trade. A bit beyond the 30 calendar days that the request is supposed to take? … Continue reading →

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The Great Canadian Census Debate: The Economists Call It

Posted on July 30, 2010 by bhaggart

It looks like we can call it a day on the Great Canadian Mandatory Long-Form Census Debate: the economists have weighed in, and they think the government’s wrong, wrong, wrong! Today’s Globe and Mail reports that 76 percent of economists … Continue reading →

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What the Census debacle can tell us about governmental accountability

Posted on July 23, 2010 by bhaggart

Jeffrey Simpson nails it today when he notes that the scrapping of the mandatory long-form census is a “temporary triumph over ideology.” (Well, one can hope that any such triumph would be temporary, but I’m feeling pessimistic today.) This whole … Continue reading →

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What lobbyists do

Posted on July 7, 2010 by bhaggart

In addition to copyright, my academic work focuses on how policy is made in Canada, the United States and Mexico. Which is why I found this account of how the U.S. Chamber of Commerce operates, by James Verini in the … Continue reading →

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