Last month the Medical Officer of Health for the Sea to Sky Region published an article in a Squamish newspaper raising his concerns about child labour in British Columbia. In his column Dr. Paul Martiquet reports that in BC the minimum age for working a regular job is 12 – the lowest of any jurisdiction [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Law & legal issues'
12 year olds at work: cuts, strains, dislocations and fractures
August 4th, 2010 · Keith Reynolds · 1 Comment · Children & youth, Law & legal issues
Privacy, Facebook and a New Information and Privacy Commissioner
May 24th, 2010 · Keith Reynolds · 2 Comments · Law & legal issues
Sometimes personal and policy issues collide or at least slide in side-by-side. That happened for me when the BC Legislature appointed Elizabeth Denham as the province’s new Information and Privacy Commissioner on May 6th. Denham’s biography shows she has a strong background in privacy issues. From 2003 to 2007 she worked on private sector privacy [...]
Tags: Elizabeth Denham·Facebook·Information and Privacy Commissioner·Privacy
BC opens door to private jails
May 2nd, 2010 · Keith Reynolds · 1 Comment · Human rights, Law & legal issues, Privatization, P3s & public services, Transparency & accountability
The BC government has taken the next step down the privatization road by opening the door to private prisons. On April 28th Partnerships BC posted a request for qualification on the BC Bid web site for a public private partnership (P3) for the Surrey Pretrial Centre. You need to register with Bid BC to see [...]
Loukidelis did good work for government accountability. Now it’s a legislative committee’s turn.
January 24th, 2010 · Keith Reynolds · 1 Comment · Law & legal issues, Transparency & accountability
David Loukidelis, British Columbia’s Freedom of Information Commissioner has accepted the new role as the province’s deputy attorney general. Vaughn Palmer did a good column on the switch in jobs but I thought Loukidelis deserved more credit for his ten years on the job. Personally, I think Loukidelis’s leadership was almost completely responsible for BC’s FOI legislation [...]
Tags: accountability·FOI·Loukidelis
