This and that for your Thursday reading.- Barbara Yaffe points out that the Council on Hemispheric Affairs seems to have a much better idea what Canada needs out of a fighter jet than the government that’s trying to push ahead with a multi-billion doll…
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Accidental Deliberations: On competing classes
Yes, it’s highly problematic that the Cons are slashing the availability of applications for skilled workers to immigrate to Canada:A little-known clause in instructions Immigration Minister Jason Kenney has issued to slash immigration applications fro…
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- David Green nicely explains the basic choice to be made in determining what type of economy we want to pursue:(T)he basic tenet of the new policy regime – that any increase in wage costs kills jobs a…
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This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Ian Welsh serves up some tough commentary as to whether Canadian voters saddled with unrepresentative and downright destructive governments are merely getting what we deserve:(W)e have selected, to rule our soci…
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Assorted content to end your long weekend.- Sixth Estate’s evisceration of the Fraser Institute continues, this time with a response in substance to the claim that private-sector rent-seekers will somehow make prescription drugs more affordable:(T)he r…
Continue readingBlunt Objects: Saturday News Smash-Up
Sorry about my absence for the last five days, but I’ve been going to “school” and attempting to learn basic Spanish. Suffice to say, yo no hablo espanol, pero poco a poco, yo aprendo.Anyways, it hasn’t been an exactly major week anyways, not after the…
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Miscellaneous material for your weekend reading.- Janice Kennedy highlights the consequences of turning back the clock 80 years when it comes to collective bargaining rights:In the world of Stephen Harper and Co., big business rules. Period. The concep…
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INTERNATIONAL LABOUR COLOMBIA: STOP VALE UNION BUSTING IN COLOMBIA:The other year workers in Ontario and Newfoundland were “treated” to an exhibition of just how hard hearted and tight fisted the international mining giant Vale is. But Canada and Brazi…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On needless aggression
While I wrote today’s column before word came out about the Harper Cons’ meddling in the negotiations between Canada Post and CUPW, it looks like the Cons’ desire to provoke a war with workers extended even further than I’d thought – including through …
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: New column day
Here, expanding on the hostile labour environment that’s developing as federal and provincial governments alike use back-to-work legislation as a pre-emptive attack on workers. For further reading (which should be familiar to those who read the blog re…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that (with a B.C. flavour) for your Tuesday reading.- Yes, the CCPA’s report showing that taxes in British Columbia are downright regressive is stunning enough on its face. But the real story may lie in the response of the province’s finance m…
Continue readingwmtc: lessons from canada post lock-out and back-to-work legislation
The members of Canadian Union of Postal Workers engage in labour actions. In response, their employer, Canada Post, locks them out. The Harper Government tables back-to-work legislation. The Opposition launches the longest filibuster in Canadian histor…
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Miscellaneous material to end your weekend.- Brian Topp points out the biggest difference between the Parliamentary reaction to the Harper Cons’ attack on Canada Post workers and previous overreaches by the Con government: Before May 2, there would hav…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On unreasonable outcomes
I’ve pointed out before how the Cons’ deliberate attack on the Canadian Union of Postal Workers figures to create damaging incentives as federally-regulated employers consider how to handle future collective bargaining. But now that we’ve seen the Cons…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Underestimated
Others have already noted how refreshing it is to have an Official Opposition which is willing to take a stand on issues of substance. But it’s also worth highlighting another important factor in the NDP’s strategy for this week.One of the main blind s…
Continue readingwmtc: petition: negotiate, don’t legislate
Please sign a petition opposing the Harper Government’s back-to-work legistlation.Minister Lisa Raitt,I am urging your Government not to introduce or support back-to-work legislation aimed at ending Canada Post’s lockout of members of the Canadian Un…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Adam Radwanski points out how Stephen Harper’s continuing Senate embarrassment figures to play into the NDP’s hands:If Mr. Harper was looking to signal once and for all that he’s abandoned his populi…
Continue readingwmtc: rally for postal workers, rally for all workers, rally for public services
This morning in Toronto, locked-out postal workers and their supporters will rally at the legal offices of Canada Post, to protest the collusion of Canada Post and the Conservative Government to strip workers of their legal right to collective bargaini…
Continue readingOn back to work legislation. Whoa, deja vu.
So, another conservative (note the small “c”) government, another round of back to work legislation. Canada violates its international obligations yet again, and is again grouped with such shining lights of liberty as Colombia. It’s the same old song a…
Continue readingwmtc: the true cost of tomatoes, or slavery and poverty continue to haunt the fast-food industry, and how you can help
I have blogged several times about the horrific conditions endured by the people who pick tomatoes in Immokalee, Florida, working for fast-food giants like Burger King, Taco Bell and McDonald’s, and supermarket giants like Kroger, Stop & Shop, Whole Fo…
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