CANADIAN POLITICS:MARCH WITH OCAP AND CUPE THIS THURSDAY:This appeal from the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) asks you to join the ‘Raise the Rates’ contingent at the upcoming Canadian Union Of Public Employees Ontario (CUPE) convention. This …
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The Progressive Economics Forum: What Newfoundland & Labrador Can Teach the Rest of Canada About 21st Century Globalization
A shorter version of this analysis appears at the Globe and Mail’s Economy Lab. See article and comments here. Last fall Premier Danny Williams wondered what could drive anyone to let hundreds of millions of dollars slip through their fingers. Last week he got his answer. The Roil report on the 18-month strike at Voisey’s […]
Continue readingThe Liberal Scarf: Tim Hudak vs. his own record
Tim Hudak once said he’d fight the HST “tooth and nail” after being accused of flip-floping on the long record of PC support for a harmonized tax system, and now he has done a double-flip flop, by saying he wouldn’t fight the HST at all, but would inst…
Continue readingThe Liberal Scarf: Tim Hudak vs. Randall Denley
Tim Hudak has pushed aside an active nomination to appoint Randall Denley as PC candidate in Ottawa West-Nepean.Tim Hudak is also hoping to push aside Denley’s criticism of Hudak and his reckless rookie scheming, but as you can see below, Hudak is less…
Continue readingThe Liberal Scarf: Tim Hudak vs. Ontario jobs, Eastern Ontario edition
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/Hudak+urged+support+green+energy/4787642/story.htmlFrom Windsor to Ottawa, Ontario families & Ontario businesses are standing up to defend jobs created for families by private investment helped by the Ontario Lib…
Continue readingThe Liberal Scarf: Tim Hudak vs. jobs for Ontario families
Hudak has declared war green energy jobs for Ontario families, but Ontario is fighting back:
http://www.windsorstar.com/opinion/blogs/Green+energy+threat+makes+region/4783142/story.html
“[The PC Party] has declared war on this region with the insane …
Continue readingThe Liberal Scarf: Tim Hudak vs. Frank Klees on green energy
With the Hudak attack on Ontario’s economy and jobs continuing today, one of Hudak’s most senior MPP’s demonstrated how little faith he really has in Hudak’s wreckless rookie scheming.http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/990868–tory-mpp…
Continue readingThe Liberal Scarf: Hudak attack on Green Energy Act would cost Ontario jobs
But don’t take my word for it. Windsor mayor Eddie Francis knows a thing or two about the challenges and opportunities faced by Ontario’s industrial sector over the last few years, and what does he say about the Hudak attack?”It would be hard to believ…
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: The Landslide Election Victory That Isn’t
I initially had a vague plan for this post but have decided to go with whatever comes to mind to create an election commentary medley of sorts. Actually, it more resembles a rather large balloon filled with statistics and cynicism and it keeps growing! The Conservatives have won a majority government and this ensures their […]
Continue readingThe Equivocator: Some post-election thoughts.
Some articles with better insight than I can provide: The Liberal 34. Renewing the Liberal Party: Leadership. The Liberal Party: What went wrong and where to next? Election Post Mortem: The Liberals Some post-election thoughts: Despite the results, the Liberal … Continue reading →
Progressive Proselytizing: Electoral math II: vote splitting in the Liberal ridings the Conservatives won
While there was an enormous transfer of seats towards the NDP from the Bloc and to a lesser extent the Liberals, the Conservatives managed to move from a minority to a majority largely due to 26 seats they picked up from the Liberals. Three weeks ago, …
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Congratulations Dippers and Greens, what an historic showing.The Bloc might be history, as in the not so distant past and the Cons get their coveted majority at the expense of the Liberals. I for one am leery of the future with a Conservative majority…*shudder*
Original post blogged on zerodivision.
Illuminated By Street Lamps: Important Poll Has NDP Ahead of Grits & Canada Fragmenting
A poll released today by Ipsos Reid shows the New Democrats are now polling higher than the Grits in the battle against Big Blue. And, the poll states the NDP is only 5% behind the Liberals in the Grit stronghold of Ontario. Funny that – more evidence that Canada is
Continue readingCarbon49 - a blog on sustainability for Canadian businesses: Unilever’s Triple Win Sustainability Strategy
Unilever is the top Food & Beverage company on the Dow Jones Sustainability Index. Through Bullfrog Power, Unilever recently became the largest commercial purchaser of renewable energy in Canada at 59,000 MWh per year. What is Unilever’s sustainability strategy and why do they do it? To find out, I took a tour of their Brampton plant and talked to John Coyne, Vice President and General Counsel of Unilever Canada.
Continue readingThe Equivocator: Grant Humes: The Best Side Of Politics
Grant Humes, the Liberal candidate in the riding of Durham, is the exact opposite of his opponent Bev Oda: he is honest, intelligent and truly decent. Grant got into politics after thirty years in business. He was Vice-President and Chief … Continue reading →
Meagan Trush: Polls
Nanos’ overnight poll post-debate has Stephen Harper’s leadership rating down 15 points. That is a big win for the progressives in this country and hardly surprising given the slew of controversy that has plagued the Conservative camp. A little birdie told me the NDP is collapsing in Ontario, making the
Continue readingCarbon49 - a blog on sustainability for Canadian businesses: Sustainability Becoming Required Course In MBA
Leading business schools in Canada and around the world are adding sustainability to their required MBA curricula. Oxford in the U.K., INSEAD in France, and York University in Canada are some of the business schools with required courses in sustainability. This can be seen as an indicator that sustainability has become a core business competency needed to effectively compete in today’s and tomorrow’s environments.
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CANADIAN POLITICS ONTARIO: MARCH ON MCGUINTY: This Friday, April 1, the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) along with sections of the Canadian Union of Public Employees CUPE are planning a mass demonstration to protest the McGuinty government’s …
Continue readingThe Liberal Scarf: Provincial nomination progress, NDP and Greens
Neither the ONDP or GPO have nominated a particularly large slate so far, so I combined them here.The NDP haven’t nominated a whole lot of candidates so far as I can tell, and they so far seemed to have focused on the GTA. I could only find one notice …
Continue readingThe Progressive Right: What Happened to My Tories?
Lower the price of beer, freeze all day kindergarten, rage against the HST and the health premium but admit they’re keeping it because it’s good for Ontario. These are the priorities for Tim Hudak’s New Conservative Party?
Looks like I’m voting Liber…
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