Canada 1867
I originally wrote this in May 2013. I may update or repost it in the future. The Dominion of Canada held its first election between August 7th and September 20th…
May 2013
Saskatchewan: A beachhead of labour law reform?
By: Andrew Stevens | First published by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives on May 3, 2013: Sweeping changes to Saskatchewan’s labour relations and employment standards legislation are on the…
Saskatchewan: A beachhead of labour law reform?
By: Andrew Stevens | First published by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives on May 3, 2013: Sweeping changes to Saskatchewan’s labour relations and employment standards legislation are on the…
Is Pierre Poilivre Related To Joe Oliver?
They certainly seem to be singing from the same hymn book. Orwellian and hypocritical are inadequate descriptors of this little twit: And speaking of Orwellian, how else might one describe…
Accountability for Social Assistance.
The Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty has made three visits to the social assistance office in the past two weeks and have come out with a partial victory. You can read…
How’s your water?
Watch this excellent weekend type video and you will understand the question. (h/t)
How’s your water?
Watch this excellent weekend type video and you will understand the question. (h/t)
How’s your water?
THIS IS WATER – By David Foster Wallace from The Glossary on Vimeo. Watch this excellent weekend type video and you will understand the question. (h/t)
leaving paris / barcelona, day one
After our little breakfast at our local bistro, I decided I’d take a stab at the Rodin Museum. Allan was happier not to go, so he stayed in the room…
Absolute best comment written about Premier Photo Op
Long time Liberal Warren Kinsella, only guy in the four years of Northern Insight who threatened to sue this humble blogger, wrote the most precise description of Christy Clark yet…
Damien Gillis Talks BC Election on SFU Radio
Listen to this half-hour interview by CJSF 90.1 FM’s Sylvia Richardson of The Common Sense Canadian’s Damien Gillis on the eve of the provincial election. The two compare the Liberals’…
Doug Finley
RIP, Doug. Last communicated with him in an email exchange – about rock’n’roll, not politics. That tells me he had his priorities straight. My condolences to his family and many…
Independent MLAs, Candidates Shake Up BC Politics
Throughout the past term, BC’s three sitting Independent MLAs – Bob Simpson from Cariboo North, Vicki Huntington from Delta South, and Abbotsford South’s John van Dongen – have proven the…
organized labour is the only potential political force with enough critical mass & enough organizational capability to get things moving.
Here’s my take on the May Day CUPE Sponsored Workshops in Ottawa on Saturday, the 27th of April: It was an interesting affair for its lamentations and the myriad problems…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Armine Yalnizyan makes the case as to why wealth equates to far too much power in Canada: The problem is not that the…
Who Cut Duffy Slack and Why?
A more than curious omission in just one of the Senate standing committee reports on Senators Mac Harb, Patrick Brazeau and Mike Duffy and their housing expense claims. What distinguishes…
The playbook was left open
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission Seeing as though this was on the front page of the National Post this week, one could say that the secret…
The playbook was left open
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission Seeing as though this was on the front page of the National Post this week, one could say that the secret…
Guy Merchie: Mysteries of Life
Something to ponder over the weekend: DIVINITY Who or What runs the Universe?Is there a plan behind the daisy, the hummingbird,The whale, the world?Who conceived the eye back in the…
The World We Are Destroying
My friend LeDaro often posts videos that depict the world around us, poignant reminders of what we are so blithely destroying through our heedless consumerism and governments that know the…