Weekend Reading

Two conflicting views on the benefits of business blogging.  The first comes from Business Week called Blogs Will Change Your Business  (thanks to Radiant Marketing Group for the link) (see also Business Blogging on the Rise).  By the way, congratulations to Steve Rubel for being featured in the article (see his post BusinessWeek Gives Blogs the Cover Treatment). The second is from Graeme Thikins called Enough with the Blogging Already (thanks to Tom Asacker at acleareye for the link). 

Not surprisingly, this is generating some discussion - the lines are drawn as they probably always have been (see, for example, Johnnie Moore's Blogs and business "oil and water", Sue Pelletier's Business is like so not into blogging, BL Ochman's BusinessWeek Cover Story Lauds Blogs, Launches BusinessWeek Blog and Morgan McLintic's BusinessWeek on Blogging). 

If you're a lawyer thinking of starting a blog, you should follow Kevin O'Keefe's Real Lawyers Have Blogs. 

Mark Hume reports in his Globe and Mail article that Court to hear labour law challenge.  The Supreme Court of Canada granted Leave to Appeal the decision of the B.C. Court of Appeal Health Services and Support-Facilities Subsector Bargaining Association, et al. v. Her Majesty the Queen in Right of the Province of British Columbia.  The Union is  challenging the constitutionality of Bill 29.

The C.B.C. reports that Union Membership Drops Sharply. 

Thanks to David Fraser for drawing my attention to a Globe and Mail article entitled Genuity fires back at CIBC which discusses the latest developments in the CIBC and Genuity lawsuit.  I previously posted about the lawsuit at the initial stages(Suing Former Employees) on my old site.