Monday October 27, 2014 – 11am
Posted Oct 27, 2014 01:49:28 PM.
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11:00- Incumbent Advantage
Leo Longo, Senior Partner at Aird & Berlis LLP
No Canadian municipality has a limit on the number of consecutive terms an individual may serve on its council. Furthermore, no Canadian municipality currently has the jurisdiction to establish such a limit. Once you are voted into city council chambers, you are 90 per cent assured of staying there, even if you don’t knock on a single door. Politicians and political scientists call this phenomenon the incumbent’s advantage.
11:30- CBC fires Jian Ghomeshi
CBC star Jian Ghomeshi has been fired over “information” the public broadcaster recently received that it says “precludes” it from continuing to employ the 47-year-old host of the popular Q radio show. Shortly after CBC announced Ghomeshi was out the door on Sunday, Ghomeshi released news that he was launching a $50-million lawsuit claiming “breach of confidence and bad faith” by his employer of almost 14 years. He later followed that up with a Facebook posting saying he has been the target of “harassment, vengeance and demonization.
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