CUSLI-Nexus: A Law and Policy Blog

09/24/2013

07/09/2013

"The prospect of a Verizon entry into Canada would put a single communications market into overdrive. On the telecom side, Verizon could use its Canadian network to change the approach to roaming in North America altogether, since it would be uniquely positioned to offer a single U.S. and Canadian network."

Verizon's Canadian entry might help drive the shift to a single North American communications market.

06/21/2013

In a report Monday, Moody’s Investors Service announced it would maintain its “high credit ratings” for Ontario and Quebec, high being Aa2, two notches below the highest rate possible

06/20/2013

CUSLJ highlights the knowledge and efforts of a key Canada-U.S. bilateral advocate. Canada-United States Law InstituteBill Owens

Congressman Bill Owens recently touted the ongoing implementation of the Beyond the Border Action Plan with a publication in the Canada-United States Law Journal. Owens’ article, “Beyond the Border: A New Chapter in North American Trade,” highlights the relationship between cross-border trade and e...

06/11/2013

Christopher Sands, Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute and a member of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute's research advisory board, pens this personal obituary

06/10/2013

Financial Post To Stay Or Go: Canada's Housing Agency and the Secret Plan to break it up. Be nice to see a copy...

A 1979 task force report that was never released publicly said the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. raised troubling questions about the lack of transparency within the Crown corporation

06/06/2013

National Post provides a nice roundup of intra-party Conservative politics. One wonders what will happen when PM Harper eventually loses an election or steps down.

‘It would be a very different party with a very different future,’ MacKay said, if a one member, one vote system was introduced

06/03/2013

Ha. The trickiness of political communication in the digital age. This seems pretty straightforward, but is FB and Twitter changing how certain gov't speech should be treated?

OTTAWA - Messages sent from the prime minister's Twitter account are drawing attention to how Stephen Harper is using the social media service.Harper encouraged people to sign up for the Conservative party mailing list Monday via what many consider his official Twitter account.Government policy forb...

06/03/2013

National Post examines if Newfoundland and Labrador will tank .

The article highlights a key difference between U.S. and Canadian federalism.

There are fears that Newfoundland and Labrador may walk away from any agreement that does not protect its fish processing industry

05/22/2013

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford makes The Daily Show

http://www.cuslinexus.com/2013/05/toronto-mayor-rob-ford-makes-daily-show.html