The courts will not deliver smaller class sizes
Yesterday’s BC Court of Appeal ruling against the BC Teachers’ Federation was a disappointment to teachers and parents across the province. Many hoped that the court would uphold the trial…
May 2015
The courts will not deliver smaller class sizes
Yesterday's BC Court of Appeal ruling against the BC Teachers' Federation was a disappointment to teachers and parents across the province. Many hoped that the court would uphold the trial…
The courts will not deliver smaller class sizes
Yesterday’s BC Court of Appeal ruling against the BC Teachers’ Federation was a disappointment to teachers and parents across the province. Many hoped that the court would uphold the trial…
Prepare to Convert
It could be change on the scale of the advent of Christianity only bigger and far faster. Life as you know it could be about to change and, if that…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Friday, May 1, 2015
Your news links for today: CRTC to announce wholesale wireless decision on May 5th – Mobile Syrup Mobilicity has 157,000 subscribers, asks judge for another stay until August 31st –…
To See Ourselves as Others See Us
Ask anyone in the Third World where, if they had their druthers, they would choose to live and their top choice, hands down, would be the United States. Ask those…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Bill McKibben argues that Bernie Sanders’ run for the presidency should have massive positive impacts extending far beyond both Sanders’ central theme of…
Podcast: Pension tensions and privatizations
https://politicalehconomy.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/podcast150501-pensions-and-privatization.mp3 I have two guests on two different topics today. First up: Kevin Skerrett, a pension researcher at the Canadian Union of Public Employees. I spoke with him about the…
The Grey Wolf Escapes
Forget your chemtrails, your big pharma, your New World Order; forget UFO abductions, Bigfoot and GMOs. This is the granddaddy conspiracy theory of them all. This one makes all the…
Democracy must always been seen
This blog has been very quiet for the past five months. I wanted to give the new Park Board a chance to find it’s feet. It isn’t easy being a…
But who will pay for his hairdresser?
Seeing the Prime Minister striding arrogantly down the Hall of Honour with King Abdullah II of Jordan the other day gave us second thoughts on Stephen Harper’s future plans. He…
Daisy Group: nine years!
Seems like just yesterday – the Daisy Group opened its doors on May 1, 2006, on Yorkville. Our very first visitor, on the very next day? The best Liberal Party…
The Strange Harperland Spring and the Propaganda Challenge
It's been eerily quiet down by the waterfront where I live. It still doesn't feel like Spring.People seem strangely subdued. And although I am looking forward to all the good…
Ontario Sex Ed Curriculum As A Federal Issue
When I first read that Team Trudeau was blaming its recent slide in the polls on the new Ontario Sex Education curriculum, I didn’t buy it. But Lo!, here is…
Yesterday – Alberta
A follow up to my “Today” post. So, what happened yesterday? A few things, lets start at the bottom and work out way up 1 – The Liberals were totally…
Conservatives stay the debt-building course #nlpoli
Budget 2015 offered absolutely no surprises. On major areas the Conservatives continued their policy of spending more than the provincial treasury can afford. That’s been their trade-mark since 2003 and…
A vote for the NDP is a vote for change; a vote for the Wildrose Party is a vote for the same old Tory dynasty
PHOTOS: Alberta NDP Leader Rachel Notley. Below: Premier Jim Prentice, Wildrose Leader Brian Jean, neoconservative godfather Preston Manning. With five new polls yesterday showing Alberta’s New Democrats approaching minority government…
Are Albertans afraid of changing their government?
Four days before Election Day, Progressive Conservative Party leader Jim Prentice stood on a stage in front of hall of supporters who paid $500 per plate to attend the evening…