Progressive Taxation and Prosperity
Responding to Justin Fox, editorial director of the Harvard Business Review Group, How big should a government be? in the Harvard Business Review blogs. Interesting discussion overall, and it would…
January 2013
Liberals. We’re big on policy.
This past weekend, at the Liberal Party of Canada in British Columbia policy conference, we passed many important progressive policy resolutions. Instead of doing the typical partisan thing and talking…
Calling In The Backup: Chiefs Unite To Face PM Harper
This is Day 40 of Chief Theresa Spence’s Hunger Strike. She has reportedly lost 30 pounds while living on a liquid diet to protest living conditions and treaty infractions faced…
A Matter of Honor: First Nations Appeal to The Queen
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes- Political Blogger Canadians following the ‘Idle No More’ efforts that have sprung up across the country by tuning in to the MSM will no doubt have a…
Joyce Murray to Justin Trudeau: What’s YOUR plan to ensure Stephen Harper is removed in 2015?
What is YOUR plan to remove Harper? Joyce Murray rocked Justin Trudeau with a sharp, hard question during the only real tussle between the nine candidates for the leadership of…
Four Years As President Leaves Its Traces
Here’s a picture of Barack Obama in 2008 and one of him in 2013. Being president may be a “bully pulpit, ” as Teddy Roosevelt said, but it also is…
Star endorses Pupatello to be Ontario’s next Premier!
Ontario Liberals are fortunate to have two experienced, capable women at the top of the list of candidates vying to become the party’s next leader – and the province’s premier…
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Environment Still an Afterthought to BC Media in Election Run-up
There is, evidently, a strong aversion in the mainstream media to talk about the environment and I can only guess why. Was the Kalamazoo spill by Enbridge too complicated to…
Visible tattoos and piercings on hospital staff okay — arbitrator
The Ottawa Hospital was attempting to fix a problem that didn’t exist when it unilaterally imposed a new dress code on employees according to a recent arbitration decision. Most contentious…
Tyson Bailey
You know, it is only the Sun that is giving this boy’s death prominent coverage. The Globe’s web site has totally ignored it, from what I can see, and the…
The HTA does applies to more than just "highways"
R. v. Hajivasilis, 2013 ONCA 27 holds that some provisions of the Highway Traffic Act can apply to private parking lots: I agree with the position advanced by the appellant.…
Guest Blog: David Fairey on the History of the Trade Union Research Bureau
A special event was held at the Vancouver & District Labour Council last week to commemorate the history and contributions of the Trade Union Research Bureau.
Sun News Network Begs For Taxpayer $
Application by TVA Group Inc. and Sun Media Corporation, partners in a general partnership carrying on business as Sun News General Partnership, for mandatory distribution on the digital and analog…
Obama on Climate
Having the leader of the free world state so clearly that we must respond to the threat of climate change is absolutely a good thing. Having him state that the…
F-35 Fiasco Dumped Into Harper’s Lap
The Harper government has tried to scapegoat its way out of the F-35 debacle, blaming bureaucratic bungling, deceit within National Defence, just about any likely target that could deflect responsibility…
What do you say when your dad asks: “Why won’t I die?”
Last Wednesday night, I went to see my dad for what I thought would be the last time. He fell and broke his leg — his femur, of all things…
Harper Rolls Over on British Columbia Workers
Read it in The Tyee. The Harper government is knuckling under to Chinese mining companies out to block Canadian labour in British Columbia mines.
Harinder vs. Brown Envelopes
I don’t know where this anti-Harinder crap is coming from – although, based on who is retweeting it, I have a few well-founded suspicions – but let me say this:…