Video: Inside the Nicaraguan Maquilas
OPSEU is engaged in solidarity work that extends well beyond our borders. In February we travelled with Cobourg’s Horizons of Friendship to look at development projects in Nicaragua. Our 9-part…
OPSEU is engaged in solidarity work that extends well beyond our borders. In February we travelled with Cobourg’s Horizons of Friendship to look at development projects in Nicaragua. Our 9-part…
Keeps tongue ‘tween teeth re Keystone XL during White House meeting. President Obama overheard: “We got drones, son. And Viking Alta. is not so far away.”
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger The Shawnigan Community Centre was jammed last night for a public meeting organized by Georgia Collins for the Shawnigan Basin Society and the Shawnigan Watershed Round-table. Curiously…
This month marks the tenth anniversary of the Iraq invasion. The occasion is upon us with barely a whisper from Washington. Hardly surprising… the legacy of the U.S. invasion has…
R. v. Quesnelle, 2013 ONCA 180 holds that occurrence reports are producible as Stinchcombe disclosure, not pursuant to the third party record regime. The Court ruled: With the nature of…
It is being reported today that Canada’s Minister of the Environment, Peter Kent, would not allow the public posting of a final report by the now-defunct National Roundtable on Energy…
Incomes of bottom 90 percent grew $59 in 40 years, Natasha Lennard, Salon.com “Pulitzer Prize-winner David Cay Johnston has highlighted yet more statistics that illuminate the spike in income inequality…
Feeling apathetic? Hopeless? Lost? Have you lost confidence in the election system and politicians? One might think that these symptoms are the result of free thinking, critical thought, a peek…
Average KXL Amendment Co-Sponsor has Taken 2.5 Times More Money from Industry Than Non-Sponsors, New Research Shows By: Oil Change International | Press Release: WASHINGTON – New research from Oil…
Let’s be clear: there is no present deadline for anybody to get on the Personal Support Worker (PSW) Registry. Employers may be setting their own deadline, but this is not…
Perhaps the land of low prices and deteriorating conditions could learn something from Costco, which believes in paying its employees a living wage. Recommend this Post
Lilley and Kirbie duke it out. Kirbie 1, Lilley 0.
Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo) announced her support through her Tumbr site and called the question of marriage quality “a great American debate” By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive: The…
Newspapers rise and fall on the qualities and abilities of their editors. Editors not only instruct new reporters on the rules of the trade, of reportorial writing (and journalistic ethics),…
A 2-minute video produced by Coastal First Nations – a group representing nine different aboriginal communities on BC’s north and central coast – is underscored by the famous Simon and…
A new 2-min video produced by Coastal First Nations – a group representing nine different aboriginal communities on BC’s north and central coast – is underscored by the famous Simon…
Can the dead speak to us from beyond the grave? No, of course not. But that doesn’t stop literally millions of superstitious people from believing they do. And some think…
The loss of Canadians’ student loan data earlier this year was one of the various demonstrations that the government does not have sufficient safeguards in place to protect our private…
It is news that Rob Ford was allegedly acting inappropriately at an official function where he was attending in his capacity as mayor of Toronto. It is news that he…
Divestment from fossil fuels is an idea whose time has come. Sparked by Bill McKibben’s Rolling Stone article last summer, “Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math”, divestment campaigns are now up…