Getting more out of job creators
Probably the best and most successful way to get more out of the job creators, is to convince them that they can make more money.
2012
4594…Sorta May be Perhaps Quebec Crisis Over
They kinda mighta reached a deal.Sort of. “With Mr. Charest we never know what to expect,” Parti Québécois leader Pauline Marois said. “What I deplore is that he waited 82…
Harper’s Reckless Indifference to Inevitable Catastrophe
“But Skipper, the oil’s 600-feet down” It would probably take something of a mass insurrection to stop Stephen Harper’s plans to transport toxic Alberta sludge through British Columbia’s coastal waters.…
A Healthy Society – Chapter 6 Discussion
Chapter 6 of Ryan Meili’s A Healthy Society addresses education. But in addition to discussing familiar themes about funding and access to existing educational systems, Meili also makes some important…
Dear Quebec students,
As Martine Desjardins, president of the Fédération étudiante universitaire du Québec (FEUQ), said after the 22 hour negotiating marathon between Quebec student federations (which at last included La CLASSE) and…
May 6: Sunday morning…..
…so what the hell (figuratively speaking), let’s talk about morality. No, I am not going to start quoting from The Bible. The trouble with people who glue their noses to…
Sunday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – There’s still plenty more emerging on the Robocon election fraud scandal. The reporting combinations of McGregor/Maher and Chase/Leblanc/Mills have both discussed Elections Canada’s…
Austerity and Innovation – Reinventing Society
Over the last week, I have been busy – let me bring you up to date. Last Wednesday, May 2, I tuned in to a podcast of the MARS lecture…
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Search string of the day: why should the planet earth be conserved ? Because it’s the only planet we’ve got! If we use it up, we don’t have a replacement…
Conrad Black has many friends in Canada
A journalist by the name of Peter Worthington opines that “Black is as Canadian as maple syrup”. Worthington says Black’s renunciation of Canadian citizenship was because of Jean Chretien. Mr.…
Mulcair’s Shrewd Gambit
It is quite fascinating to digest the narrative Mulcair has chosen in the early days of his leadership. An economic argument, Mulcair can’t seem to stop talking about “dutch disease”,…
[May 14 in Toronto] From Protest to Resistance: West Germany’s Red Army Faction in the 1970s and 1980s
The Red Army Faction was one of the best known, and most vilified, urban guerilla organizations of the Cold War period. Emerging from West Germany’s radical student movement in the…
Such Exquiste Timing
I doubt that Stephen Harper reads anything that Robert Reich writes. But, as a trained economist, the prime minister might take a look at Reich’s most recent blogpost. Reich writes…
New Progressive Blogger affiliate:
Please welcome Bionic Liberal to Progressive Bloggers.
Anti-coal Mark Jaccard, a Nobel Peace Prize winner arrested
Harper government is letting us down on many fronts and his policies on the environment are one of the major let downs. Harper is in the pocket of oil, gas…
Video: Bell’s touch tone phone charge
Another example of how big telecom companies price-gouge Canadians. Let’s continue to grow our community so we can change the industry and safeguard the possibilities of the open and affordable…
Standard day at the lake
Jammed my finger under the cabin fixing a pipe, feels like it’s broken. Dog was lost for hours, Son Two inconsolate; she eventually returned. Blackflies are back with a vengeance.…
Senate Reform Bill C7
What with all the other stuff going on, not the least of which is the Budget Omnibus Bill which guts environmental regulation and leaves much of the outcomes subject to…
On Andrew Prescott
…the most likely candidate so far for Pierre Poutine. From Media Culpa: Further on in this thread, Andrew Prescott makes reference to being “asked today to join the Board of…
4593…Ezra Levant’s View Of The NDP
My non friend Ezra Levant, opines on the Dippers in Suns: The party that once stood with forestry workers, sawmill workers, miners, rig hands — the folks who work hard,…