Nov. 6: The big push is on…
I was a little surprised that the Irving press published the story of the UN report on climate change and fossil fuels. But they’re making up for that single and…
November 2014
Wow! Those Trudeau Gaffes Are Just KILLING The LPoC
And Mulcair is kickin’ LPoC ass! And…and…
It’s Our Future
Over 300,000 Internet users contributed to our crowdsourced vision for free expression online in the 21st century. What matters most to the Internet community? Watch this animated video to find…
Another BC Liberal Lie Gets Shattered – In Record Time
One of the greatest whoppers the British Columbia Liberals have told is that B.C. Ferries is an independent operator. This has been the story since the Liberal government “privatized” the…
The F-35’s Very Huge and Obvious Achilles’ Heel
We know that a lot of top US military types have lost their passion for the F-35 light attack bomber. A recent report from the Pentagon’s Center for Strategic and…
Possibly a poor dress rehearsal forced Harper to change his travel plans
Filed under: Cartoons (Single Panel), Making fun of Conservatives, Making fun of Harper
Your Daily Digital Digest for Thursday, November 6, 2014
Your news links for today: CRTC issues its first decision on Let’s Talk TV – Canada News Centre Bell Posts Strong Q3 Results with Wireless Revenue up 7% – iPhone…
First West Credit Union-’Salary Budget Reductions’– Unfair Labour Practices
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger The following information was waiting in my inbox this morning. It is of significance to all Island Savings Credit Union members and staff who value job security…
Hoskins unveils Health Plan v. 2.0 at OHA HealthAchieve
Ontario’s health minister has what he calls Health Plan version 2.0. Speaking at the closing of the Ontario Hospital Association’s annual HealthAchieve conference, Dr. Eric Hoskins revealed his top four…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Heather Mallick and Linda McQuaig both weigh in on the connection between income splitting and the Cons’ plans for social engineering. And…
All the Government Money Can (legally) Buy
Apropos of my post yesterday about how the public are being methodically conditioned, “tuned up”, to be compliant to neoliberalism, the US Center for Public Integrity spent the mid-term elections…
New column day
Here, arguing that while Stephen Poloz is indeed thoroughly out of touch in suggesting that people entering the workforce should take on unpaid internships as matters stand now, we should…
When My Enemy’s Enemies Are Still My Enemies
One of the greatest mistakes we make in the conduct of modern warfare is to make our conflicts suit a politically palatable narrative. It can seem as though the spin…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Thursday, November 6, 2014
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Thursday, November 6, 2014: Anti-abortion laws blocked by Oklahoma’s top court Food-safety lawyer won’t eat these things My…
The crisis in the Manitoba NDP: the politics of taxes
The current crisis in the Manitoba NDP has its roots in the decision of the Greg Selinger government to raise Manitoba’s 7% provincial sales tax to 8% in its 2013…
They Claim He’s a Smart Man
http://dyn.com/ The Conservative “Family Tax Cut” is straight out of the fifties. Linda McQuaig considers three families, each earning a total $100,000 in income:
SNC-Lavalin Got Harpers Corporate Tax Cut – Made Huge Profits – Will Now Axe 4000 Jobs!
Another huge corporate welfare bum is going to cut thousands of jobs after lining their bank rolls with Stephen Harper’s huge corporate tax cut. “Montreal engineering conglomerate SNC-Lavalin says it…
There Wasn’t A Moist Eye In The House
With the exception of that maudlin master of emotion, the disgraced Dean Del Mastro, Members of Parliament seemed strangely unmoved by the self-proclaimed victim of injustice as he announced his…
Selling Ontario services to the world’s wealthy.
It started with education. For many years community colleges and universities in Ontario and across Canada have been selling education to the children of wealthy parents in foreign countries. This…
The Psyche of the Caregiver: A Story of Eldercare Devotion
This is the second in our National Caregiving Month series of blog posts from YOU, our readers and fellow caregivers! Judy Fox and Andrea Hurley are the co-authors of one…