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:
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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…
Nightmare in Amerika, and the Lesson for Canada
At first sight it couldn't be a more depressing sight, or more of a nightmare.Team Mitch McConnell and his ghastly Republican tea baggers, seizing control of Congress, and promising to…
Spending Comparisons #nlpoli
The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) released its annual summary of health care spending health care last week. This is a pretty basic collection of numbers that show how…
Careless or captured?
When you read or listen to resource industry advocates, especially ones masquerading as objective political pundits, compare their concerns in 2009 about burning natural gas to generate peak-demand electricity to…
Dean Del Mastro’s Hasty Departure From Parliament
Well it looks as if we won't have Dean Del Mastro to kick around anymore. For after beating his chest for a few days, like a wounded gorilla, the Deaner…
Said to be sought as candidate by Wildrose Party, ‘tax watchdog’ spokesperson’s intentions are for the moment unclear
CTF Alberta spokesperson Derek Fildebrandt last summer at the Legislature in Edmonton. Below: Premier Jim Prentice and political blogger Dave Cournoyer. Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith is “working hard” to recruit…
A Seasoned Banker has 9 Questions for Island Savings President Rod Dewar
David Indgehas 9 questions With regards to the proposed merger between ISCU and FW and having read comments on the subject by Mr. Dewar, one of the points he continues…
Rafe: Shell promises “green” LNG…we can trust them, right?
Christy Clark and Marvin Odum, President Shell Oil Company at recent BC LNG conference (BC govt flickr) I’m sure, like me, you were excited to read in the Vancouver Sun…
Some Thoughts on the Vancouver Election … Plus Endorsements!
With a week and a half to go before voting day in municipalities across British Columbia, the campaign here in Vancouver seems to have devolved into a veritable hatefest against…
Breaking: Denton, Texas Hit with Lawsuits After Landslide Victory on Fracking Ban
Less than 24 hours after Denton became the first Texas city to ban fracking within city limits, the city is being sued. The Texas General Land Office and the Texas…
Former Hydro head pulls out of NEB’s “farcical” Kinder Morgan hearings
Read this Nov. 3 story from CBC.ca on former BC Hydro boss Mark Eliesen’s decision to drop out of the Kinder Morgan The former head of BC Hydro, Marc Eliesen,…
Is the FCC about to betray 5+ million people?
We’ve just learned that U.S. FCC Chair Tom Wheeler is considering a plan that could fall far short of what 5+ million of you have spoken out for: strong, enforceable…
Coastal Tar Sands – Journey To Deleted Islands
What happens when a major corporation wants to build an oil pipeline over land to the west coast where it will be loaded on to supertankers that have to navigate…
The EU’s New Climate Commitments Make Canada and the U.S. Look Ridiculous
The European Union has reached a new legally-binding climate change agreement that would see greenhouse gas emissions drop by at least 40 per cent of 1990 levels by 2030. The…
The EU’s New Climate Commitments Make Canada and the U.S. Look Ridiculous
The European Union has reached a new legally-binding climate change agreement that would see greenhouse gas emissions drop by at least 40 per cent of 1990 levels by 2030. The…