Any one else see a trend here?
As with any budget there are winners and losers, with the true test of a budget at least in my mind being the determination of who wins and who loses.…
Kev
How Do We Define Ourselves?
Given the ongoing dust up between the great folks over at DAMMIT JANET and the administrators of Progressive Bloggers, I have been giving considerable thought as to how to define…
Welcome to the Corporate Confederation of Canada
“We could continue with this incremental approach to backlog reduction and eventually by about 2018 we would get to a working inventory. By returning these applications now we’ll get to…
Time To Speak Up On Choice
Conservative MP Stephen Woodworth is trying his darnedest these days to see womens right to choose curtailed, even entirely overturned if he had his way. While the Cons would like…
Premier Dad Shows His Abusive Side
McGuinty likes to play the compassionate leader role unfortunately for those most in need of compassion ans assistance that’s all it is a role to be played. I’m often taken…
Harper Dooms Omar Khadr to Languish in Hell
Today’s Star points out that ‘Bureaucratic delays’ keep Omar Khadr in Guantanamo well past the November 2011 date that the terms of his plea deal strongly signalled. No surprise here,…
A Conspiracy Theory
While it is good to finally know the identity of the coward whose infamous boot is featured prominently in this iconic photo from the #G20 police riot in Toronto, it…
Indifferent To Democracy
Indifference and democracy go together about as well as oil and water, which is not at all. Yet that is precisely where we we are today, far too may Canadians…
Democracy is now out of order in Harper’s Canada
Harper toady House of Commons Speaker Andrew Scheer this past week ruled opposition questions about robocon out of order, saying that all questions “have to touch on the administrative responsibilities…
Terminology Matters
There is a saying “Tell me how you’ll measure me and I’ll tell you how I’ll behave” If so then we shouldn’t be surprised when political operatives working out of…
You Might Be Living In a Fascist State When…
The military digs up dirt against an opposition MP to help provide cover for the government A spokesman for MacKay said in a statement that finding out information about Simms’…
Poverty! What Poverty?
We all suspected that poverty isn’t very high on Harper’s agenda perhaps even not on it at all, but it appears that he does indeed have a plan to reduce…
YAY! Team Lets Hammer Them Some More
I’ve found it extremely nauseating to engage in my favourite pastime of reading newspapers these past few days. Their cheerleading for Drummonds all too predictable evisceration of Ontario’s civil society…
The Job: A Ticket to Poverty
Said the office worker to the poor person “Get a job you bum” I have 3 replied the poor person How many do you have? Increasingly these days a job…
Let Them Drink Bitumen
Thanks to a question placed on the order paper by the Liberals we now know that the number of First Nations communities under drinking water advisories has increased nearly 40%…
Debunking Anti-Union Myths
In this first installment of a promising series of videos York University professor Dr. Stephanie Ross eviscerates the myth and right wing neoliberal meme that unions are no longer needed…
No Justice For Clayton Willey
In 2003 Clayton Willey was arrested by RCMP officers in Prince George for causing a disturbance a few hours later he lay dead. A coroners inquest in 2004 ruled his…
A Guide to Labour Relations by Rob Ford
In a move they surely hope will force their workers to walk off the job the Fordites have delivered an ultimatum in the form of a totally unacceptable (cough) offer…
Sedative For The Masses
Lately we have been inundated with news reports about billionaires like Bill Gates and Warren Buffet opining on inequity and the need for higher taxes on the rich,with the latest…
Dumb on crime indeed
Much of Harper’s “tough” on crime agenda has been described as dumb and that is particularly true in the area of parole or supervised release. Inmates in our prison system…