Turning of the Screw – McDonald’s Tip to Hungry Workers
McDonald’s has a few employee relations problems. They pretty much revolve around the company’s preference to pay its workers somewhat less than a living wage. Not a good wage or…
November 2013
Climate Denial Group CFACT Congratulates Australia During Warsaw Talks
AUSTRALIA finally has a vocal cheerleader at the COP19 United Nations climate talks currently taking place in Warsaw – a climate denial activist think tank which rejects the science of…
Harper outshames Ford
Embarrassing our country more than Toronto Mayor Rob Ford would seem to be an impossible task. Yet our prime minister has done just that. On November 12th, the federal government…
Stephen Harper’s new hairstyle
It has been in the media that Stephen Harper has a make-up person. Now here is his new hairstyle. Attractive, eh!
2013/14 Leitch Lecture with Andrew Coyne
This is an excellent lecture from optimistic contrarian Andrew Coyne. There is large Liberal policy meeting in Montreal in February. Perhaps this can be copied to a flash drive or…
Climate Change Bad Boys Tough It Out in Warsaw
The Warsaw climate change summit may go into the books as the moment when the prosperous, industrialized nations turned their backs on the rest of the world. We’re not gloating…
Norm Kelly v Rob Ford: The Right Wing Mayor Is Dead. Long Live The Right Wing Mayor!
Happier days for the populist right Well, it was indeed a circus at city hall yesterday. I wasn’t able to attend the performance live but did have the pleasure of…
Norm Kelly v Rob Ford: The Right Wing Mayor Is Dead. Long Live The Right Wing Mayor!
Happier days for the populist right Well, it was indeed a circus at city hall yesterday. I wasn’t able to attend the performance live but did have the pleasure of…
Norm Kelly v Rob Ford: The Right Wing Mayor Is Dead. Long Live The Right Wing Mayor!
Happier days for the populist right Well, it was indeed a circus at city hall yesterday. I wasn’t able to attend the performance live but did have the pleasure of…
Join us for a Reddit AMA about the TPP at 11am PT / 2pm ET
Today is the first day of a crucial round of secretive meetings over the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in Salt Lake City, Utah. For years, OpenMedia has been warning about the…
Ferry Tales Can Come True…..
BC Ferries to cut sailings, seniors’ discounts, add slot machines Transportation Minister Todd Stone says cuts will save $19 million by 2016 CBC News Posted: Nov 18, 2013 7:01 AM…
Nov. 19: Mayoor Leblanc cheers for openess and transparency – except….
….when he wants closedness and a soundproof wall. I quite understand what he means when he says it’s a competitive world out there. But it’s supposed to be a democratic…
Time for Justin to get down to business
Trudeau must realize that although politics may be a popularity contest, it is not a personality contest. Being able to charm an intimate audience in a causal setting is not…
A day with clowns
A day with clowns, a photo by flavita.valsani on Flickr.
Norm Kelly v Rob Ford: The Right Wing Mayor Is Dead. Long Live The Right Wing Mayor!
Happier days for the populist right Well, it was indeed a circus at city hall yesterday. I wasn’t able to attend the performance live but did have the pleasure of…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Your news links for today: Canada’s Wireless Digital Divide (HowardForums) Taking those old telecom myths out for a spin (Peter Nowak) NDP push reforms to Access to Information Act (Toronto…
Conservative Ignorance and The Ford Brothers. . . .
I don’t believe that all rightwingers are dimwitted or even evil. There are still a few rightwingers around that take a relatively rounded view of the society. I disagree with…
Irreconcilable Differences
The people of Etobicoke seem to like their municipal leadership morbidly obese, sweaty, profane, erratic, dishonest and routinely inebriated. The people of ol’ Toronto seemingly don’t agree. They don’t like…
A single question that could change how we approach population health
In all the talk about health care sustainability we lose sight of the fact that the interventions that cost the least and are likely to have the biggest impact on…
Wind And Health: A New Study?
From Garth Manning, Chairman of the County Coalition for Safe and Appropriate Green Energy (CCSAGE), Prince Edward County, Ontario, writing in the T.O. Sun: Toronto human rights lawyer Julian Falconer…