Canada Coaching Countries to Waste Water
Canada, a decade ago, used to do more good than bad in the wider world. Now we’re an international wrecking crew, teaching countries how to waste their water supplies on…
Canada, a decade ago, used to do more good than bad in the wider world. Now we’re an international wrecking crew, teaching countries how to waste their water supplies on…
Our digital future looks pretty pathetic. Check out our own Chris Malmo’s unflinching account of the failures of the government’s Digital Canada 150. Article by Chris Malmo for Vice Remember…
On April 8, two Islamophobic attacks were carried out in Montreal. In the first case, in the early morning hours, an axe was thrown through a window the Centre communautaire…
Go to the bottom of page 1 of Section A. “Proposed high school changes are discussed”. I have spent my life in education. So I read that rather long story.…
From Innovative Research. Looks like the gas plant fiasco has run out of steam. And its hard to suggest with numbers like these that Andrea Horwath’s NDP has any kind…
Think SOPA is dead? Think again. U.S. President Barack Obama has picked Robert Holleyman, who led efforts to pass the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), to help lead the effort…
Your news links for today: Canada’s Digital 150 Strategy: Cynical, lazy and so 1867 – Boing Boing Colorado Town Approves Public Networks – Save the Internet Job listing hints Google…
Is Roger Martin having us on? This morning the publicly funded Institute for Competitiveness & Prosperity released a working paper on policy opportunities for Ontario’s health care system during Longwood’s…
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger The controversy swirling around the democratic right to vote has been increasing in its velocity. Canadians are recognizing that this plan targets voters who are unlikely to…
* H/t Dan Gardner In the twisted morality of the Harper universe, it will be claimed and conveyed as a complete vindication of the Prime Minister. That the RCMP has…
This piece was originally published in Monthly Review and republished here with the author’s permission. This old airport’s got me down—it’s no earthly good to me, ‘cause I’m stuck here…
Yesterday five university students were brutally murdered at a house party near the University of Calgary. The headlines have been lurid, the details of the story as it unfolded on…
A couple days ago, I wrote a blog on Jim Flaherty that took the politically correct position: Flaherty was a good person, but not-so-good finance minister. Today that got me…
At a point you’d think somebody would stop and ask a few questions. Last week we reported on how Kingston’s Providence Care cut down the trees and removed the plaques…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Angella MacEwen takes a look at the large numbers of unemployed and underemployed Canadians chasing a tiny number of available jobs. And Carol…
L to R: Jesse, Christian, Kristen, Conor Photo by Phyllis Van Dine-Humble This is one of my new favorite pictures of Conor, far right in the picture, taken last evening…
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Wednesday, April 16, 2014: Tips Tuesday How law firm mergers can go wrong This week at the SCC…
Reaction Call to Action from Reaction on Vimeo. Reaction is a new company which recently crowd funded enough money to send a boatload of housing to help refugees fleeing the…
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While it is a truism that migrant labour built Canada, this same migrant labour has long been used to discipline domestic workers. Both facts are imprinted into the history of…