Thomas Walkom Today
The union movement is one of the last remnants of the great postwar pact between labour, capital and government. That pact provided Canadians with things they still value, from medicare…
2012
The War On Wages Continues
On the subject of rotating teacher strikes in Ontario, Tom Walkom offers a little historical perspective: When Bob Rae’s New Democratic Party government overrode collective agreements in 1993, many private…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Thomas Walkom discusses the meaning of the Ontario Libs’ attempt to take collective bargaining rights away from teachers in the context of…
Why did the Gingerbread man go to see the doctor?
Because he felt crummy!
Happy Holidays: Oil To The World & All That
The U.S. National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released its updated Arctic Report card earlier this week. Like many other recent reports about the condition of the north, the canary…
Pressing Politics Stars in House of Assembly, Tories Elicit a Warning from Dean MacDonald
Yesterday I had a fair bit of time to kill, so I decided to head to the legislature and take in some of the Muskrat Falls filibusters. As I was…
The 20-Something Birth Rates #nlpoli
As we told you a couple of weeks ago, it doesn’t look like the provincial government’s policy of paying cash for live births produced any improvement in the birthrate in…
Campaign Buttons For LPoC Leadership Contenders
I’m thinking I might give the old political consultant business a try, figuring that if LaForet can pull it off how hard can it be? So I’ve had several buttons…
The Ikea Monkey and the Harper Kong
Gawd. If my protest calendar for December wasn't booked solid. And if I hadn't got plastered at the office Christmas party.I might have been walking around today with a sign…
Idle No More – Montreal, Friday at Noon
****An English version will follow**** FRANÇAIS: 17/12/2012 – Mouvement historique – Les autochtones se réunissent sous la bannière Idle No More pour dénoncer les politiques du gouvernement Harper – Joignez-vous…
Darwin
I am now officially bored by Darwin the Ikea Primate. I believe your fifteen monkey minutes are mercifully drawing to a close, little friend. And your Toronto Real Estate Lawyer…
The GunNutz’ Response to Newtown? Turn America into a War Zone.
American gunnutz are slowly responding to the Newtown massacre and, predictably, their solution is to transform the United States into an Israeli-style War Zone. Yes, if only your kids can…
Copyright Crackdown | Weekly News Update from OpenMedia.ca
Hello! Here’s Lindsey with your update: Copyright crackdowns and threats on a global scale are threatening free expression and access to information via the open Internet. Stand with OpenMedia.ca as…
New website!
So, because I’m such a tech-geek at heart, I finally set up my very own server in my bedroom! It’s an Apache server (for those of you that know the…
The Alberta Apocalypto: The world as you know it is about to end! Again…
Alberta Finance Minister Doug Horner gets ready to make a sacrifice to placate the mighty and angry Deficit God. Alberta politicians, not to mention the Legislative complex, may not be…
They’re not going to take it anymore
The Idle No More movement is being noticed across Canada. The Star Phoenix had a major story this morning about its founders Sylvia McAdams and Sheelah McLean (pictured above) who,…
Campaign Update: Ryan Meili
Ryan’s Website: LINK Every time I think I’m out, they pull me back in! I should have known that when I said that last post was likely the last of…
ONA Study on Macroeconomic Side-Effects of Austerity
The Ontario Nurses Association has been publishing some awesome economic analysis over the last couple of years, highlighting the talents of their new economist & PEF member Salimah Valiani. Apart…
Bartolucci backs Pupatello
He’s one of the greatest guys you’ll ever meet. A real pro. And now he has backed Sandra Pupatello,here.