Same rules as non-commercial, plus you must register and find out any local rules.

Toronto police union tried this, but got shut down within weeks.

Yup: excessive enthusiasm and pilpul don't make a good mixture.

--dave
[Hmmn, I'm thinking red/green/refactor may be something legal draftsmen may want to investigate. The conviction was RED, this is GREEN, a good case before a superior court would be the REFACTOR]

While it didn't address the lobbying, Jean Chretien's effort to shift party funding to $x per vote cast in the previous election was an excellent first step toward taking the power to influence out of the hands of the people who also hire lobbyists. It's contraintuitive that it was the ex-Reform party members who shut it down and took the election-spending power out of the hands of their own "grass roots".

Indeed: I notice a number of ex-reporters were caught up in the Senate scandal...

Even if you had no parties, individuals need to get thrown out of office, if only to keep them from getting in a rut.

We used to have four parties,
Left Left-Center Right-center Right
NDP Liberal Conservative Reform
plus a Quebec party, plus some oddballs.

We used to get lots of debate, and some very different suggestions from the NDP and Reform, which tended to keep the debate healthy.

Now we have Reform, renamed as the "Conservatives", a rump of the Liberals, and a invigorated NDP. The latter two split the left-center vote, the Reform party wins, and the policies look remarkably homogenized.

Bummer!

On April 8, 2004, the European Court of Justice – the highest court in the world’s largest economy – declared Data Retention to be an excusable violation of fundamental human rights. The court invalidated the entire directive (“EU federal law”) retroactively, making it have never existed. (courtesy Ricvk Falkvinge, https://www.privateinternetacc...

The EU and Canadian constitutions are sort of vaguely similar, so one can likely make the point that, even if the telcos are free to disclose, they're not allowed to keep much of the data the security services would want them to.

If you're doing a workaround, you need to have a regression test for the thing it worked around, so when the bug get's fixed your test fails, someone reads the description and you can turn off the workaround for that platform. That's pretty-ordinary practice from an anal QA person. And yes, I do TDD and still have an QA person siting across the aisle from me.

Clarification: no co-op with a reach bigger than a city or country!