this is what privatization looks like
The Harper Government has schooled us in austerity basics. Call it Privatization 101. Ottawa Citizen: DND to pay $100 million to private firm to replace laid-off workers Just months after…
September 2012
Banking sick days and public sector unions
I’ve written previously about the idea of banking sick days, and getting a payout for them later. Now the Ontario government has passed Bill 115, which “freezes their wages, bans…
Do Corporate Tax Cuts Really Pay For Themselves?
A new paper by Jack Mintz ( with Duanjie Chen) argues that “corporate tax reductions of more than 30% since 2000 have, contrary to the critics’ cries, failed to make…
New column day
Here, on the importance of substance over spin in politics – and the counterproductive effect of dedicating a party’s resources to the opposite effect. For further reading…– As I’ve previously…
Ontario Shores says we got it all wrong
Earlier this week we ran a story about how a manager at Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences had used a YouTube clip from the 2000 movie “Meet The…
Sun News: I’m outnumbered!
…but I (and you) knew that already. Which is beside the point: the Sun folks, whose opinions I vehemently disagree with 99 per cent of the time, are open about…
This PC MPP is an idiot
And no less than B’nai Brith agrees Jim McDonnell’s characterization of opponents as Nazis is a disgrace: “There is no place in Ontario for invoking the racism, hatred and violence…
A Political Implosion In Slow Motion
Royson James writes in today’s Toronto Star that mayor Rob Ford is beyond redemption: At some point, Mayor Rob Ford’s mayoralty will collapse under the weight of his own political…
140Law – Legal Headlines for Thursday, September 13, 2012
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Thursday, September 13, 2012: SCC to weigh-in on enforceability of restrictive covenants where an employment follows sale of…
Hiking In Newfoundland’s Rugged Gros Morne Highlands
If all goes according to plan, I will be starting the first (and hardest) day of the Long Range Traverse Trail in Gros Morne Park on the west coast of…
Ford follies: a continuing series
From a respected Toronto municipal columnist: In essence, someone has to save the mayor from himself. He cannot be rehabilitated. He doesn’t “get it” when it comes to appropriate behaviour…
Ask Me Anything #3: Romance, Part I
Patti asks: “I would like to read your thoughts about romantic relationships. What has life taught you about them? What makes for a good relationship or a bad one for…
Teachers, taught
The most pro-union paper in the country: …the moral high ground that teachers’ unions claim to occupy is slipping away..the unions are exploiting ordinary Ontarians for their own pecuniary purposes.…
Not getting enough sleep
Just can’t sleep at night!!!
Why “progressive” in scare quotes?
Does the Globe now plan to do likewise for “conservatives?”
Does Sam Bacile exist? I am thinking not
Besides, if you actually watch the darn thing on YouTube it is astoundingly poorly done; more like a prank than anything genuine. Story Innocence of Muslims is credited to “Sam…
Heeeere’s Johnny
At Bishop Carroll, we were obsessed by the film, too. But mainly because it was scary.