Temporary Foreign Workers
Armine and I have some comments in today’s Toronto Star article on Temporary Foreign Workers (page B1). Armine has been commenting extensively on this issue and my head talked for…
April 2013
An open letter to Anonymous about Rehtaeh Parsons
Dear Anonymous: I have never written to you, the global hacktivist group, before. Like everyone else, I have read about your exploits and, more than once, nodded my head with…
Daniel McGowan Forbidden From Publishing Articles Without Permission (Village Voice)
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2013/04/daniel_mcgowan.php on the main Kersplebedeb website: http://kersplebedeb.com/posts/daniel-mcgowan-forbidden-from-publishing-articles-without-permission-village-voice/
Snapshot of Genocide
An excerpt from Loic Wacquant’s Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity (Duke University Press 2009), pages 59-73: The Gaols of the Subproletariat: An Experimental Verification It suffices,…
Temporary Foreign Workers and the Semi-Slave economy. . . .
Jim Flaherty, that inconceivably incompetent buffoon who calls himself a ‘finance minister,’ keeps telling us that the Conservatives needed to expand the ‘temporary foreign workers’ program because there are ‘labour…
140Law – Legal Headlines for Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Wednesday, April 10, 2013: Manitoba judges get pay hike Nun admits stealing $128,000 from churches; spent money at…
Video message for FEMEN: ‘saving Muslim women one bra strap at a time’
A Muslimah from Manchester, England, gets her message across in this funny yet pointed video in which she thanks FEMEN ‘from the bottom of her heart’ for showing her how…
More On RBC’s Outsourcing From Star Readers
I have a busy morning ahead, so for now I take the liberty of reproducing two letters from this morning’s Star that make some excellent points as to how to…
The Flintstones wasn’t a documentary
Sorry, I just had to say that. Sometimes I just can’t help myself. Anyway: the fact that Stockwell Day is supporting the BC Liberals isn’t even remotely news – but…
RBC-gate
It’s now been a full week of this Royal Bank of Canada PR disaster, and it shows no signs of abating. Is it true, as a commenter wrote yesterday, that…
My first year as a woman
A year ago, this story rocked my world, and my daughter’s, no pun intended. Against Me, and Tom Gabel, were a huge, huge deal for us. So, here’s her update…
Final Power Rankings
There isn’t a lot of suspense surrounding Sunday’s Liberal leadership vote. Pick the metric of your choice – fundraising, endorsements, hair volume – and Trudeau leads his nearest challenger by…
Winter storm watch for today!
It's springtime, but a winter storm watch is in effect. Environment Canada warns it's not snow we have to worry about. A series of low pressure systems is bringing heavy…
Alberta Federation of Labour Demands Inquiry Into Temporary Foreign Worker Program
List of ‘accelerated’ TFW approvals reveals widespread abuse of program By: Alberta Federation of Labour | Press Release: EDMONTON, April 9, 2013 – A list of fast-tracked temporary foreign worker…
The O stands for Originality, aka the oxymoron to "Ottawa"
This article was published in The Huffington Post Canada. Read it here and post a comment! This week is momentous for legions of moms and women in general: the “Big…
The Transformation #nlpoli
Provincial Conservatives in Newfoundland and Labrador have a political philosophy that is equal parts Machiavelli, Kafka, and the Three Stooges. For the first few years they seemed to be constantly…
Tar Sands: Exxon’s New “Energy Everywhere” Program (Satirical Video)
Political satirist Andy Cobb’s take on the recent ExxonMobil tar sands oil spill in Mayflower, Arkansas: America’s oil industry is terribly misunderstood. When a lot of people hear “364 pipeline…
Harper’s Canada Posts Poor Showing on Child Well-Being
Sideshow Steve Harper doesn’t have much time for the plebs, especially the little ones – the dependent-types. UNICEF has just released a report on the well-being of children in the…
"In America truth is offensive, If you tell the truth, you are offensive."
So writes former U.S. deputy treasury secretary, Paul Craig Roberts, in his column for CounterPunch, America, Land of the Lost. Roberts recently published the e-book, The Failure of Laissez-Faire Capitalism,…