Author: christyk

Stories are coming out about the Bangladesh clothing factory that collapsed and various groups are taking aim at different companies whose clothing was being made there.  A Canadian group is drawing attention to Joe Fresh, a line of clothing sold at Loblaws grocery stores and the line “No $5 T-Shirt is

Ontario needs a $14 minimum wage just to allow full time minimum wage employees to earn above the poverty line. (Or more accurately, above the low-income cut-off line, one of many statistical measures for poverty, and in this case above the low-income cut-off line only for a single person not

Of course I feel horrible for those directly effected by the bombing in Boston, but I hate how it becomes a national tragedy. What right do we in North America have to believe that we should never be subject to violence, when it dominates so much of the world? 16

An article describes Ontario Finance Minister Charles Sousa as having to pull of a miraculous balancing act: He’s trying to prepare his first provincial budget while walking a high wire between anti-poverty advocates calling for more spending on relief programs and business groups calling for lower taxes to support the