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Politics and its Discontents: Note To Tim Hortons Head Office: Please Respect Your Workers
On Sunday, I wrote about The Toronto Star reporting that a Tim Hortons franchisee is eliminating paid breaks for his/her employees as retaliation against the June 1 increase of the minimum wage in Ontario to $11 per hour. Yesterday, I sent off a letter to the head office of the
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Ronald McDonald’s Secret Agenda
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Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: A Question To Ask Any Day Of The Week
I’m working on installing some flooring in the house today, so for now, here is a question that deserves to be asked by all critical thinkers: Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Slavery, Then And Now
Not being a regular moviegoer, much preferring the tightly-scripted fare offered on cable that is adult in the best sense of the word, I only know from media reports that 12 Years a Slave won the Oscar for Best Picture. According to the Internet Movie Database, it is about the
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Breaking News! No Relief In Sight For Unpaid Internships!
Like the proverbial hot potato being passed around as rapidly as possible, the Ontario Government, true to their corporate puppet masters, has vowed to do nothing about the growing problem of unpaid internships, preferring instead to palm the problem off to the education industry. As reported in a followup story
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Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: How Much Do We Really Pay For Those Bargains?
There is a segment in the documentary, The Corporation, where Michael Walker of The Fraser Institute extols how corporations help developing nations by using their labour to make their products. If you watch the video below from 3:15 to about the 6:00 mark, you will hear his explanation: While the
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