Guest Blog: Fight Telus’ Prepaid Wireless Policy
This guest blog was written by Celia Sankar Telus prepaid wireless pay-per-use customers who racked up balances of over $300 (as a result of topping up to prevent their funds…
September 2014
Neoliberalism & the City
Municipalities have long been sites of neoliberal policy experimentation and contestation. Since the onset of the 2008 recession, the local state has come under new pressures to privatize social services…
Cat is not happy with contemporaneous occurances
Filed under: art Tagged: Cat, disgruntled in fact, not happy
Briant Mulroney warns Stephant Harper to ‘never count out the Liberals’
Inspired by these headlines: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/brian-mulroney-warns-stephen-harper-to-never-count-out-the-liberals-1.2756734 http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/isis-in-iraq-canada-to-send-special-ops-soldiers-as-advisers-1.2755841
In An Information-Based Economy When You Provide Crap Information You Hurt The Economy
From here. Original stats-can report is here.
Your Daily Digital Digest for Friday, September 5, 2014
Your news links for today: The U.S. Government’s Secret Plans to Spy for American Corporations – The Intercept This Week in Privacy (August 30 – September 5) – imgur Infographic…
Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Job Numbers
Today Statistics Canada released their first set of job numbers since the ‘oops’ of July 2014. And the news was dismal. The labour market shed 112,000 private sector positions, the…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Jordan Brennan examines the close links between strong organized labour and improved wages for all types of workers: U.S. scholars have found that…
Ricochet
I found this site the other day and was encouraged to see the youthful energy, the quality of journalism offered and the potential ‘Richchet’ bring us. Ricochet is a new…
The certainty of uncertainty
In my ongoing quest to get to the bottom of my annoyingly reduced sleep, I received the results of a recent MRI of my brain when I visited my family…
A Voice From The Past
The always mellifluous Brian Mulroney offers some less than sweet-sounding words for the Harper government. As reported in The Globe and Mail, in an interview with Don Martin on CTV’s…
Political Eh-conomy Radio: BC teachers and First Nations on the frontlines
My guests today help take a fresh look at two issues where British Columbia is on the front lines of bigger social conflicts: that over the future of public education…
Et Tu, Brian?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/ When Brian Mulroney appeared before a parliamentary committee to explain his connections to Karl Heinz Schreiber, Stephen Harper let it be known that Mulroney
The Real Intergenerational Inequity Is Not Public Debt But Lack of Public Support
Are the guys in power in Canada and the US listening to voice of economic reason? The answer is “No!” of course. As Paul Krugman charges again today, austerity measures…
Self-Employment Masks Job Loss
Statistics Canada reported today that employers cut the number of employees by 98,000 in August, which was largely masked by 87,000 more Canadians identifying themselves as self-employed. As a result,…
Atwood & the 100 Year Forest
Depending on perspective, it is an author’s dream – or nightmare: Margaret Atwood will never know what readers think of the piece of fiction she is currently working on, because…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Friday, September 5, 2014
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Friday, September 5, 2014: Atlanta father who left toddler in hot SUV charged with murder LSUC: Tips for…
Are Hong Kong activists smarter than Canadians?
Pay attention politically smart Canadians. The activists in Hong Kong are showing you up. And what makes you think Canada is more democratic than Hong Kong? All the activists in…
Best sign, ever
It also neatly summarizes my perspective on all of existence.