Some Canadian content for Mayday (International Workers’ Day): This video is a documentary about the Toronto folk music group The Travellers, who started out in 1953, mixing traditional folk songs,…
European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) – Benchmarking Working Europe 2014 / Books / Publications / Home. The report Benchmarking Working Europe 2014 reviews the crisis and EU austerity policies in…
Stephen Harper has created a magical world around him, not unlike that of the rabbit hole described in Alice in Wonderland or the Matrix in the Wachowski brothers’ Sci-Fi masterpiece.…
Passed-out cats.
Rob Ford has embarrassed both himself and the city he was elected to serve yet again and again. Recommend this Post
A second video of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford smoking what has been described as crack-cocaine by a self-professed drug dealer was secretly filmed in his sister’s basement early Saturday morning.…
This is less of a post full of maps and analysis and more of a question I am posing. Will Canada one day vote OUI? That is, will “English Canada”…
She’s done. .
Shorter anonymous Conservative MP: Of course we want nothing more than fairness out of Canada’s electoral oversight bodies. And by that, we of course mean they should stop damaging our…
Professors at the University of Victoria (UVic) are demanding the school’s administration freeze all new investment in fossil fuels and initiate a three-year divestment of all fossil fuel holdings. The…
Many Canadians don’t give a damn about what goes on in Ottawa. (I’m using “Ottawa” as a euphemism for Parliament and the government rather than the city. You probably figured…
Congratulations are in order for fellow blogger, Nancy Leblanc, who will be the Ontario Liberal candidate for the riding of Parkdale-High Park in the next provincial election. Her nomination becomes…
Congratulations are in order for fellow blogger, Nancy Leblanc, who will be the Ontario Liberal candidate for the riding of Parkdale-High Park in the next provincial election. Her nomination becomes…
Congratulations are in order for fellow blogger, Nancy Leblanc, who will be the Ontario Liberal candidate for the riding of Parkdale-High Park in the next provincial election. Her nomination becomes…
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So, in the wake of Donald Sterling being unceremoniously dumped from any association with the NBA, we have Mark Steyn running to his defence. Even so, it is disturbing to…
This is a guest post by Lee Fang and Nick Surgey, originally published on Republic Report. Before the Heartland Institute became famous for its leading role in climate change denial,…
Christy Clark announces agreement to build an LNG facility at Grassy Point ( BC govt photo) The Clark government’s rosy projections of a $100 Billion “Prosperity Fund” from its proposed…
Here comes the sun
A short post based on a discussion on Twitter; which province(s) have the highest income taxes. First; you really need to add the Federal rates. Federal income taxes are a…
