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…
April 2014
Vice: Canada’s Internet sucks and the government has no real plan to improve it
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…
Islamophobic Attacks in Montreal: The Need for a Militant Movement Against Racism
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…
April 16: It starts on p.1….
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.…
New Ontario Poll
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…
Please Share: Our image about SOPA back from the grave
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 Daily Digital Digest for Wednesday, April 16, 2014
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…
Tommy Douglas never said health care would be free — advisor to Premier
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…
Six pieces of ID and still not allowed to vote-Elizabeth May
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…
CPC slogan 2015: “No grounds for criminal charges.” *
* 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…
A practical solution to an urgent need
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…
On The Murders In Calgary Yesterday
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…
Flaherty: Not-so nice guys finish last
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…
Providence Care expresses regret over memorial but fails to make it right
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…
Wednesday Morning Links
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…
The Smiles Gang: Conor and LHHS Friends Had a Blast Last Night Going to See Rio 2 in 3D
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…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Wednesday, April 16, 2014
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…
Emergency Shelter Packaged Like a Coffee Cup
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…
Fur Elise
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The Temporary Foreign Workers Program and labour market discipline
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…