From Wonderful Wednesdays to Freedom Fridays.
Toronto Star reporter Susan Delacourt wrote a column recently on the changing work hours of our federal parliamentarians. It seems they are finally recognizing that spending any part of Friday…
March 2016
Complaint to/about Judy Foote, Canada Post and Holocaust-denying rag
Right here. On International Women’s Day, does Minister Foote really want to be standing in the House defending racism, homophobia and Holocaust denial – and defending this women-hating crap?
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- CBC exposes the galling amnesty deal offered by the Canada Revenue Agency to wealthy individuals who evaded paying tax through a sham offshoring…
Generation Y Gets The Short End
https://tw.news.yahoo.com/Yesterday, the Guardian reported on a study w...
Why Is Big Oil Supporting Ezra Levant’s Bigot Site?
I've always been curious about who exactly funds Ezra Levant's grotesque hate mongering site The Rebel.Because as you know the grubby Rebel Commander spends at least half his time begging…
Open Data #nlpoli
James McLeod has released the data he compiled to produce his Saturday story on the number of people in the provincial public service who make a salary of more than…
Seven Tips for Feminist Men
I know already. You’re a feminist. And a man. But I’m not going to pat you on the back for that because we need to do better. We may think…
Study highlighting large and growing gender income gap makes grim reading on International Women’s Day
PHOTOS: Status of Women Minister Stephanie McLean, at left, announced the NDP Government’s plan to improve gender equality yesterday. (Government of Alberta photo.) Below: Queen’s University Law Professor Kathleen Lahey,…
In this week’s Hill Times: the problem isn’t Trump, it’s his audience*
Donald Trump is irrelevant. Yes, yes, of course: the racist, sexist, extremist reality TV billionaire is the biggest news story on the planet, presently bigger than ISIS and Justin Bieber…
How 19th Century Cotton Mills Influenced Workplace Gender Roles (repost)
Equal pay and access to jobs are crucial goals for many working women today. That was also true nearly 200 years ago, when the entire system of waged labor, as…
Chevron starts production at GORGON (Australia) #nlpoli
SAN RAMON, Calif.--(Chevron via BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar. 7, 2016-- Chevron Corporation (NYSE: CVX) today announced it has started producing liquefied natural gas (LNG) and condensate at the Gorgon Project on Barrow…
Another Dr Smith case
The Court of Appeal for Ontario today set aside a guilty plea holding the accused was forced into the plea though innocent by the risk of wrongful conviction. Some might…
Women’s liberation, everyone’s liberation
Photo by Michael Coghlan I’d like to start by discussing how not to talk about rape in India. We cannot talk about it as though it is a problem that…
Socialist Feminism in the 21st Century
Photo by Peter In the 21st century, women of the working classes — employed in the formal economy, the informal economy, working in the countryside or doing unwaged labor —…
March 7: Exclusive
That's the label reserved for a sensational story that one newspaper or one chain has; and nobody else has. It's for stories like "World will end on Friday", something like…
Pipelines to Nowhere: Energy East, Kinder Morgan make no sense amid global green energy boom, tanking oil market
With the longterm decline of fossil fuel markets, Canada should abandon old-economy pipeline projects like Energy East and Kinder Morgan and focus on the booming green economy, argues Will Dubitsky.The…
Four Reasons for Optimism On Vancouver Climate Declaration
This is a guest post by Clare Demerse of Clean Energy Canada. Canada’s premiers and prime minister headed home from Vancouver last week having launched a brand-new climate change negotiation…
City and CP agree to landmark agreement for the creation of the Arbutus Greenway
City of Vancouver News ReleaseMarch 7, 2016 City and CP agree to landmark agreement for the creation of the Arbutus Greenway The City of Vancouver (City) and Canadian Pacific Railway…
Four Reasons for Optimism On Vancouver Climate Declaration
This is a guest post by Clare Demerse of Clean Energy Canada. Canada’s premiers and prime minister headed home from Vancouver last week having launched a brand-new climate change negotiation…