Our Tories are troubled tra-la!
When writing about the ‘Dump the Dummy’ campaign among Ontario Conservatives a couple days ago, we could hardly imagine the Tories having any choice. It gives you serious pause though…
August 2013
Labour Force Numbers Worse Than They Look
Today’s Labour Force numbers provide more evidence that Canada’s labour market is still mired in a 3-year funk. Following one year of decent recovery from mid-2009 (the trough of the…
Thag make sex toy!
Thag was preparing himself for a long hunting trip. He’d already sharpened his fire-hardened spear, and collected fresh grasses for insulating his clothes and moccasins. The last thing he needed…
Politics with your Folk
TweetFor this political junkie, one of the small highlights of attending Edmonton’s Folk Music Festival each year is flipping through the $5 programme book to sneak a look at the…
Bears Dancing
They are quite entertaining. 🙂 CBC News.
140 Law – Legal Headline for Friday, August 9, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Friday, August 9, 2013: The Duty To Accommodate Is Not Unlimited – Mondaq News Alerts (registration) Lawyer agrees…
Police Power
While the title of this post may seem a bit of a tautology, since the power of police on the streets is obvious, there are other arenas where they wield…
Corruption in the Pipeline: A Timeline of Keystone XL Misinformation
Though plagued by corruption, the Keystone XL (KXL) “zombie pipeline” refuses to die. While firsthand accounts from front line communities in Alberta, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas have galvanized activists, the…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Henry Blodget recognizes that the systematic corporate squeeze on mere workers represents a deliberate choice rather than an inevitability: One of the big…
Austerity Bites? Public-Sector Implosion Hits Canada’s Job Market
Statistics Canada reported a loss of 39,000 jobs in July, even as Canada’s working-age population grew by 39,000. As a result, unemployment rose and many Canadians withdrew from the labour…
Maybe It’s Time For Mike Duffy And Pamela Wallin To Throw Stephen Harper ‘Under The Bus’ And Come Clean On This Whole Sorry Affair!
When Stephen Harper decided to add Pamela Wallin and Mike Duffy to Canada’s unelected, undemocratic Senate, he started in motion a series of events that has ultimately become an ugly,…
Uneasy Lies the Head
The knives are out.Tim Hudak’s days as leader of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party are numbered. Bob Hepburn writes in The Toronto Star: In the wake of disappointing losses in…
The Long Slow Death of Fox News North
Uh oh. Somebody call a plumber, or a mortician. It looks as if Sun TV News, also known as Fox News North or Harper TV, won't be able to make…
Churn, churn, churn #nlpoli
For your consideration: a conspicuously large number of changes in the senior levels of the provincial public service over the past four years or so. The most recent person to…
John Baird and the Hoggy Homophobe
Lordy. It's taken me a day to recover from this stunning sight. I haven't seen such a match up since El Macho met La Cuca in the finals of the…
Happy happy joy joy
LOL! Loved the remark on tonight’s news that Sun News TV generated more letters of complaint to CRTC than it had actual viewers.— Michelle Simson (@MichelleSimson) August 8, 2013 In…
Sanctimonious, who me?
RossK at The Gazetteer notes one particular whine of one practitioner in the corporate media, Sanctimonious was an interesting choice of word by this guy but it better fits a…
Is the Green Party Still Relevant? Part 2: The Inside Baseball of Green Electoral Co-Operation
Stephen Harper’s Conservative Party stands astride Canada’s political reality like an unmovable colossus. Scandals and legal suits are not changing public opinion, and the Conservative Party remains poised to achieve…
New Leadership Team Proposed for Unifor
The CAW and CEP have created a team of union leaders proposed to lead Unifor, Canada’s new super union, after its founding convention on September 1. The post New Leadership…
Do you consider folks of a different political ideology your ‘enemy’?
I ask that because apparently John Baird, Canada’s Foreign Minister, does. Mr Baird has been rightly praised for condemning Russia’s anti-gay laws and for taking on the social conservative REAL…