Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Heather Stewart writes about the OECD’s study showing the connection between increasingly precarious work and worsening inequality. – Tara Deschamps reports on…
2015
Why Greece’s Syriza party is not sticking to the script on an IMF deal | Paul Mason | Paul Mason
Why Greece’s Syriza party is not sticking to the script on an IMF deal | Paul Mason | Paul Mason. The leaked IMF document seen by Channel 4 News last…
Temporary and part-time jobs surge promotes inequality, says OECD | Business | The Guardian
Temporary and part-time jobs surge promotes inequality, says OECD | Business | The Guardian. Heather Stewart A surge in self-employment and temporary or part-time jobs over the past two decades…
New column day
Here, expanding on this post about the new challenges the Cons are facing heading into this fall’s election. For further reading…– Geoffrey Stevens offers his own take on the Cons’…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Thursday, May 21, 2015
Your news links for today: Spy agencies target mobile phones, app stores to implant spyware – CBC News NSA Planned to Hijack Google App Store to Hack Smartphones – The…
Visualizing where things stand
With all the news about the Federal “3-way tie” I decided to put in a poll average; weighted towards more recent polls. The results were near what other political predictors…
Boycott Bottled Water for a Better World
Bottle water is a sham and you all know this. The problem is that a lot of people don’t and that our society permits these individuals to continue their unwarranted…
It’s not in the cards for Tom Mulcair.
Whether you prefer to use a crystal ball, tarot cards, automated telephone calls or the entrails of a sheep, forecasting the results of the fall federal election in Canada at…
King Stephen’s Fondest Dream
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Always Rigging The Game
http://www.opednews.com/ From the beginning, everything Stephen Harper has done has had one objective: to rig the game in his favour. His latest foray is his attempt to legislatively re-write history.…
REMINDER: Autism Society New Brunswick Meeting This Saturday 1:00 Room 303 Tilley Hall UNB Fredericton
REMINDER of ASNB meeting THIS Saturday At 1 PM. ASNB family ADVOCACY is responsible for the early intervention program recognized as an evidence based North American model. Our efforts also…
Will the Con’s Porky Behaviour Cost Them the Next Election?
As you probably know Stephen Harper's Cons have been in a feverish, grunting frenzy recently.Running wildly all over the country, spewing our tax dollars out of every orifice, in a…
Either Side of the Fence
This brief video compilation shows Harper’s views when he was Leader of the Opposition only just over a decade ago, and at a recent press conference. Opposition Leader Stephen Harper…
TBT: a cabinet divided #nlpoli
The latest case of the Premier and one of his ministers saying different things can’t be put down to brain farts. You also cannot dismiss this because fisheries minister Vaughan…
Oil Royalty and Oil Price Forecasts (2015) #nlpoli
Don Mills says people in Newfoundland and Labrador have a false impression of the state of the provincial economy. Wade Locke says Mills is full of it. To bolster his…
Jason Kenney, Stephen Harper, and the Absurd Chicken Hawk Cons
In retrospect it could only be called a triumph of bad timing. For there was Jason Kenney at the Canadian Club in Toronto, puffing out his chest like a chicken…
Rachel Notley sets transition schedule for NDP government, gives impression grownups are in charge in Alberta again
Premier Designate Rachel Notley addresses reporters in the Alberta Legislature Building’s media room yesterday. (CBC photo.) Below: MLA Deborah Drever, new Lieutenant Governor Lois Mitchell. If Alberta’s Conservatives weren’t worried…
List: What’s happened since Alberta’s historic election
It has been an incredible 15 days since Alberta’s historic 2015 election. Here is a quick look back at what has happened in the past two weeks and what will…