February 2012

Liuna Fails Its Members

The Labourers’ International Union of North America Local 183 seems to be playing right into the hands of neoconservative forces that would like nothing better than to see right-to-work legislation…

Monday Morning Links

Assorted content to start your week. – Tim Harper comments on the Harper Cons’ collusion in a war against Canada’s middle class: Under the Investment Canada Act, (foreign) takeovers are…

Let Thy Backbenchers Speak

With the private members bills, petitions, and MP statements floating around about abortion and defunding the CBC and other topics of low importance but major controversy, one wonders whether or…

On rush jobs

I’ll avoid making too much of the Cons’ machinations around the Toronto-Danforth by-election. But it does seem worth noting that the announcement comes in advance of the six-month deadline to…

Just a thought…

…but seeing that there is so much empty ad space on OC Transpo busses, why doesn’t the City offer the space to charities, community associations and not for profits to…

Tax Sugar!

Some U.S researchers are calling Sugar a toxic substance that needs to be taxed. Now I am all for taxing sugar as well as soda drinks and then putting that…

Skateway robbery!

GC and I went skating on the Rideau Canal Skateway yesterday. We weren’t actually planning to, and we didn’t have our skates with us. But it was such a gorgeous…

The Abortion Debate

This Interim piece proceeds upon the wrong assumption. Progressives want to have a “respectful” debate with the government side on Abortion. We do! So please keep those petitions and private…

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