Given the disappointing news about the minimum wage coming out of Ontario, and the relentless propaganda from the right about wage increases being job killers while conveniently ignoring the experience…
Muslim group insulted by Canada’s PM. The council had criticized the inclusion of a controversial rabbi in Harper’s delegation that went to the Middle East last week. “Rather than responding…
8521624548_fe3b21051d.jpg Government should immediately implement Privacy Commissioner’s report as step toward greater spy agency transparency and accountability, says OpenMedia.ca January 28, 2014 – This morning’s Federal Privacy Commissioner’s report contains…
When Jean Marie Neal and her husband moved to Calvert County, Maryland, she knew natural gas was imported nearby at the Dominion Cove LNG plant. “We did not object,” Neal…
…because it’s been bothering me. But I think I do understand Saturday’s Faith Page. The headline is First North River Church hosts pancake supper. There’s also a whole bunch of…
BC’s teacher’s have been waiting for this ruling for over a decade. The Christy Clark Government has been nailed for unfair labour practices. Teacher’s can bargain class size! Here is…
Place your finger on your forehead, just above the eyebrows toward the right side. It is now within centimetres of your conscience. Our conscience is not, as long thought, a…
Via Land Over Landings: HUGE THANKS to all who came to Pickering council last night: we packed the house and wowed them with our accuracy, facts and passion. It was…
It would appear that the Ontario Conservative Party’s support for right-to-work legislation is costing them support and costing them candidates. Ontario Conservatives are concerned how the labour policy messaging is…
As I mentioned a few days ago, PMO needed to lawyer up. They now see why. Harper and PMO will lose: falsely calling someone a terrorist is among the most…
Another thing the Internets have taught me about how to come up with ideas is that readers of blogs fully enjoy being told what to do. Which is to say,…
There may soon be good news for the province’s personal support workers. “When PSWs tell me they can make more at Tim Horton’s, I sit up and take notice,” Health…
Sometime when the Ingerman kids were young and the Soderstrom kids were only a hope, Doris and I took the gang down the Hudson to Albany (I think) to see…
In the late 1970s American TV sitcom, Welcome back, Kotter, the character played by comedian Gabe Kaplan returned to his old high school to teach a remedial class of misfits.…
Pete Seeger has died. It’s trending everywhere. Which in a sense is all the proof I need of my thesis. It’s heartening to see that a life well lived, an…
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Tuesday, January 28, 2014: Prince Is Suing His Facebook Fans For $22 Million – Business Insider Quentin Tarantino…
Poverty in perpetuity. That is what Ontario’s ‘socially-progressive’ Premier, Kathleen Wynne, has condemned the working poor to. After waiting more than six months for what turned out to be a…
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – David MacDonald studies the effect of the Cons’ income-splitting scheme, and finds that it’s oriented purely toward funnelling money toward the top…
