The Ontario Hospital Association is disappointed again. This week Dwight Duncan announced the government’s intention to cap salaries for new employees in the broader public sector – including hospitals – to $418,000 a year, or double Dalton McGuinty’s salary. The … Continue reading →
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Geoff Campbell: PRL 614: Advanced Public Relations Writing for Digital Platforms Assisgnment
YouTube and Censorship Apart from the video, “Innocence of Muslims” which has sparked international outrage, the video giant YouTube has refused to remove other videos governments and individuals have requested to be taken down. What may not be widely known is that the United States leads the world in Google content removal
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Chris Hedges Promotes Book at UofR
I attended Hedges lecture at the UofR on Thursday night, and I think most of the crowd was impressed as was I. He did get a standing ovation when done. Then he took questions. Here is some of what went on in Tweet form (reverse chronology): A south Sudanese woman
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Wall Resource Royalties
This article is going to be fun during an upcoming election campaign, so I’m making sure that it doesn’t disappear if the website it is on goes away. Wall muses about changes to resource royalties The Canadian Press Published Thursday, Aug. 23, 2012 7:34AM CST Last Updated Thursday, Aug. 23,
Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: Health and safety challenges for three quarters of a million health care workers
There are more than three-quarter of a million health care workers in Ontario. Not only are patients aging and requiring more intensive care, but the workforce itself is aging and facing increases workload stress. The Ministry of Labour has issued … Continue reading →
Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: The illness or the environment? Is Ontario Shores responsible for high rate of violent incidents?
Most mentally ill patients are more likely to be the victim of the violence than the perpetrator of it. Most evidence would suggest individuals experiencing mental illness are no more inclined towards violence than the general public. Yet among Canadian … Continue reading →
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Alberta Taliban
Priceless, irretrievable, unexplored stone markings in Alberta have been intentionally destroyed by unknown criminals using methods employed by the Taliban to erase investigation of history. Vandals with power tools, acid, and apparent historical-genocide as motive, ruined a look into Canada’s ancient past. It’s an international disgrace, and for what? For
Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: Bad week for private companies mining for profits in health care
This hasn’t been a good week for private companies mining big profits in Canada’s health system. Quebec police are probing a hospital private-public partnership deal awarded to SNC Lavalin Group Inc according to the Globe and Mail. Police raids took place … Continue reading →
Continue readingLeft Over: Off With Their Heads!!!
In HuffPost Canada today: Mask Ban Bill Nears Final Stage In House Of Commons LOL…what a joke this government is..what about face paint, or glasses, noses and moustaches..? Or, let’s say, false beards? Wigs…clown shoes? Look out drag queens, you’re next! What, women wearing pants? That’s a disguise! Off with
Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: Reality checks in – austerity plan based on exaggerated deficits
In February we attended a forum hosted by the Centre for Policy Alternatives looking at the manufactured crisis the Liberals are using to bring in a far-reaching austerity agenda. At the time, we noted that Finance Minister Dwight Duncan has … Continue reading →
Continue readingPressing Politics: Protected: Tory Defection: Tom Osborne Confirms His Uselessness
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Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ConCalls: CoC Federal Court
-(Federal Court, ASS. PRESS) The Council of Canadians (CoC) court challenge is fiiiinalllly underway in Federal Court this morning. Well, sort of. It’s defending itself against the Conservatives who are complaining that the CoC is partisan (In other news, irony detectors just exploded today across the country). Unlike my It’s
Continue readingGeoff Campbell: [PR Theory] Power and Public Relations
Sage Handbook of Public Relations, the main textbook for PRL 605: Public Relations Theory at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. As I noted in my last post I’m well into the fall semester at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications M.S. in Public Relations program at Syracuse
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Camera by Bird
Here’s a nifty accidental way of getting aerial photography. A seagull steals the camera!
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: TrapWire, PRIME, Now Alberta Police Fingered
I was shocked, and disapointed that the CBC article today about police reports including Charter violating intel, didn’t have mention of BC’s PRIME system.
Continue readingLeft Over: What Would Neil do?
Neil Macdonald: A mighty nation, frightened by an angry mob – So called analysis at the CBC online site…with, of course, the usual diatribes against all Muslims, everywhere, in the Comments Section…is it any wonder even the minority of fanatics who perpetrate these acts assume that we are all willing
Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: Principal Cancels Course To Prevent Gay Student From Taking It
The lengths people go to in order to stop gay people from enjoying their life… Thomas Amons, a principal for the Beaumont Independent School District’s Taylor Career and Technology Center in Texas, has canceled an entire cosmetology course rather than let a student whom he thought was gay take it.
Continue readingLeft Over: RIP Premier Lougheed….and Education in Alberta
Is it just me, or is Alberta getting more and more insane all the time? Must be all those bitumen fumes..where else would a teacher be fired for doing his job? Alberta is guilty of a whole bunch of disgusting things in regards to the environment and ignoring the health
Continue readingGeoff Campbell: #NBCFail: A post-mortem
During the London 2012 Summer Olympic Games, viewers in the United States quickly became frustrated with the company given exclusive U.S. broadcasting rights to the games and used the hashtag #NBCFail to express their frustration on Twitter. They were frustrated with their “shoddy streaming experiences, editorial mistakes and —
Continue readingPaul S. Graham: Harper hates war resisters. We love them. Stop the deportation of Kimberly Rivera
by Peace Alliance Winnipeg During the Vietnam war, tens of thousands of American conscientious objectors sought refuge in Canada to avoid taking part in a war they could not, in conscience, support. While the Canadian government was slow to respond in a positive way, under persistent pressure from peace, church
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