Ontario Education Minister Laurel Broten has decided to impose conditions of employment on Ontario’s public elementary and secondary school teachers. She did mention that she would repeal Bill 115 after…
Ontario Education Minister Laurel Broten has decided to impose conditions of employment on Ontario's public elementary and secondary school teachers. She did mention that she would repeal Bill 115 after…
New Jersey’s popular Republican governor, Chris Christie, has turned on the Republican-controlled House of Representatives and House majority leader John Boehner is reeling. “Americans are tired of the palace intrigue…
Using the legislative power that Bill 115 provides, Ontario Education Minister Laurel Broten has announced she will impose contracts on Ontario teachers but then rescind Bill 115 because it has…
Michael Moore I don’t support the troops, America, and neither do you. I am tired of the ruse we are playing on these brave citizens in our armed forces. And…
I’m still away on Christmas/New Years vacation, hence my absence from here… so Happy New Year to everyone. Secondly, just a little update on the Ontario Liberal Leadership convention and…
It seems that most ideas in the realm of Science Fiction stay as fiction but it’s not too rare that “out there” ideas from Sci-Fi can become real. At the…
On December 3, 2012 Politics, Re-Spun’s Stephen Elliott-Buckley spoke with Jarrah Hodge from Gender-Focus.com, exploring issues around feminism and labour, and: labour unions the BC Federation of Labour temporary foreign…
Ontario Education Minister Laurel Broten has decided to impose conditions of employment on Ontario’s public elementary and secondary school teachers. She did mention that she would repeal Bill 115 after…
Making predictions in a sport as unpredictable as politics is very much a fool’s errand. I don’t think anyone saw Dalton McGuinty’s retirement or Justin Trudeau’s left hook coming in…
Responding to Branko Milanovic, Lead Economist in the World Bank research group and a visiting professor at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy, Why Income Inequality Is Here…
Even right-wing Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall thinks it’s wrong. Recent cuts to the Interim Federal Health program for refugees have led to a storm of criticism by the medical community…
This is a thorough and highly critical look at development NGOs in the Canadian context. It focuses on building an understanding of how such organizations are not meaningfully “NG” at…
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Barbara Yaffe lets Hugh Segal make the case for a guaranteed annual income to end poverty in Canada: (Hugh Segal) says it…
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Thursday, January 03, 2013: Alberta’s top court puts random workplace drug and alcohol testing on hold Superior Court…
From John Ivison’s column today: Another area where the government is attempting to make structural changes that could end the cycle of poverty and despair is by creating a First…
On SRBP’s eighth anniversary, a sampler of some January commentaries: A year of Bonding (January 2006) Whistleblower Protection Legislation (January 2009) Pater Knows Best (January 2011) Undisclosed Risk: financing the…
Today I submitted my intent to be a delegate for Gerard Kennedy at the upcoming Ontario Liberal Leadership Convention. Hopefully I will get the opportunity to support Gerard in Toronto…
Today I submitted my intent to be a delegate for Gerard Kennedy at the upcoming Ontario Liberal Leadership Convention. Hopefully I will get the opportunity to support Gerard in Toronto…
