Taxes
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…
April 2014
Please Share: 9 hours to Stop the Secrecy!
9 hours left to Stop the Secrecy! Let’s keep the pressure on – SHARE and LIKE! Show the person sitting next to you on the bus! Share at the gym…
Sustainable economy: Salvation gets cheap
Paul Krugman wrote an important column on the economy and environmental sustainability titled, Salvation gets cheap. This is based on the IPCC’s recent report that suggests a green technological revolution…
Breaking: CSX Railroad "Bomb Train" Carrying Crude Oil Explodes in Lynchburg, Virginia
A freight train owned by CSX Corporation has erupted in downtown Lynchburg, Virginia, which sent “flames stories high” into the air, creating a large black cloud. ABC‘s WSET has reported…
Sheen and gloss, personal and political: A Review of We are the Giant
We Are the Giant, a powerful portrait of five human rights activists in Syria, Libya, and Bahrain, personalizes the multiple, simultaneous, and in many ways ongoing struggles often monolithically referred…
April 30: We’re a world leader…
….The CBC has the story. Most of the world has it, I suspect. But you won’t find it anywhere in the Irving press, not even in that bowl of intellectual…
Of Popadicks, Pidcock and Ottawa
Looks like some middle-aged man has been busted for exposing his willy to people at my old neighbourhood, near Mooney’s Bay in Ottawa. “As a side note, this quote from…
PSW minimum wage hike not the end of the story
Deb Matthews promised and delivered – sort of. The Ontario Health Minister had committed earlier this year to revisit compensation for personal support workers. Minimum wage for PSWs had not…
Hidden histories and political legacies of the Canadian anti-apartheid movement
This piece originally appeared in the March-April (2014) issue of Canadian Dimension magazine. Subscribe or buy previous issues HERE. One could be forgiven for thinking that graying Tories were the…
Please Share: Only 12 hours left to Stop the Secrecy
We have just 12 hours to Stop the Secrecy! Please help to Stop the Secrecy around the TPP! Please SHARE this image right now to maximize our impact in these…
TTC Chief Andy Byford On Scarborough LRT Vs. Subway
…or, at least, an LRT running underground: Andy Byford says that TTC is mindful of changing politics, is doing work on Scarb. transit that could apply to either subway or…
josh lueke is a rapist and why we should continue to say so
Stacey May Fowles has written a incisive, biting, and definitive piece about shaming men who rape. I can scarcely quote from it (although I will), because every word is not…
Barrick Gold Faces Demonstration Against Human Rights, Environmental Abuses at Toronto AGM
Barrick Gold’s shareholders will be greeted by a familiar sight in Toronto this morning: protesters are once again gathering outside the Annual General Meeting of the world’s largest gold mining…
Is It Irony, Or Is It Hypocrisy?
It may be both. The Harper regime’s penchant for withholding information from the public that should be accessible is well-known and well-documented. As pointed out in this Star article, we…
Don’t believe the (LNG) hype
Today we released a new report, Path to Prosperity? A Closer Look at British Columbia’s Natural Gas Royalties and Proposed LNG Income Tax, about liquefied natural gas (LNG ) development…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Your news links for today: Government makes over a million requests a year for data from telecoms – Chronicle Herald Government agencies seek telecom user data at ‘jaw-dropping’ rates –…
A visceral, jarring work: A review of Children 404
“Children like me simply don’t exist for them.” With these ominous words, spoken over a crackling telephone connection, Children 404 draws to a close; its unsettling conclusion signaled by an…
Careful What You Ask A Georgian Grandma
Lawyers should never ask a Georgia grandma a question if they aren’t prepared for the answer. In a trial, a Southern small-town prosecuting attorney called his first witness, a grandmotherly,…