Half-Cocked
Nation, we woke up this morning to hear that, for the second time in a week, a resident of Calgary was shot and killed by police. We don't know what…
2016
Half-Cocked
Nation, we woke up this morning to hear that, for the second time in a week, a resident of Calgary was shot and killed by police. We don’t know what…
Trump Has Germans Thinking a Lot About Democracy
The German people have not forgotten their past and president-elect Donald J. Trump has them revisiting those painful memories of a darker time. An article in Der Spiegel asks “How…
The CDC & Corporations: Profit Instead of People
A number of reports confirm my fears that the CDC in the US is a revolving door of scientists and the pharma industry, with everyone looking to make a buck,…
An Idea Whose Time Has Come
Executive pay might be the biggest scandal of the day in Big Business. We regularly read of CEOs earning five to six hundred times the average wage of their employees.…
Half-Cocked
Nation, we woke up this morning to hear that, for the second time in a week, a resident of Calgary was shot and killed by police. We don’t know what…
Monbiot Tackles Neoliberalism’s Death Grip on the West
Neoliberalism has been the default operating system of western governments, Canada included, since it was ushered in during the Thatcher/Reagan/Mulroney era. Justin Trudeau is a neoliberal as were his predecessors…
Tell Trudeau to reject the Trans-Pacific Partnership!
Photo by Lorie Shaull Winnipeg, Nov. 23, 2016 – Winnipeggers attended a townhall meeting at the University of Winnipeg about the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a multilateral trade agreement that threatens our…
Maude Barlow: Government Neglect, Corporate Abuse, and Canada’s Water Crisis
Photo from Millstonenews.com Winnipeg, Nov. 24, 2016 – Council of Canadians Chair Maude Barlow discusses her latest book, Boiling Point: Government Neglect, Corporate Abuse, and Canada’s Water Crisis with Paul…
Neoliberalism Out, Neofascism In?
Cornel West says America is in for a makeover, Trump style. White working- and middle-class fellow citizens – out of anger and anguish – rejected the economic neglect of neoliberal…
Look Justin, Cut the Bullshit
Today’s the day when we learn whether the federal government will put our north coast in jeopardy or merely threaten our south coast with disaster. Which pipeline will Trudeau approve?…
It’s Time for the Economy to Shrink
money With the frequent boom and bust cycles the economy goes through it is rare for people to argue that perhaps the downward portion of cycles should continue. Shrinking the…
Maybe Hillary’s Not So Bad After All.
Hubba, Hubba Hillary Clinton’s email scandal cost her heavily in the last election. Trump never went to a rally without feeding the Gullibillies the promise that he would see her…
The Fight Must Continue
Because I am quite a private person, I rarely discuss anything personal on my blog. But I will, to a small extent, break that general rule today to convey something…
Enforceability of Employment Agreements: Termination Clauses in Ontario
BY SIMRAN BAKSHI, ASSOCIATE LAWYER In the excitement of finding a new job, it can be tempting to overlook the importance of the termination provisions that might be included in…
LawFact of the Day: Employment Law
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Tuesday November 29, 2016. Today we are talking about Employment Law. A video posted by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on Nov…
fidel castro, 1926-2016
More than any ruler I can think of, Fidel Castro defies our insistence on seeing leaders as solely either good or evil. As this excellent assessment in Social Worker (UK)…
Castro and Us
All of leftbook seems to have been posting about Cuba and Castro, and in a really weird way this has served as a pretext for rehashing all kinds of 20th…
World AIDS Day 2016
The blank page stares up at me, “World AIDS Day 2016”. That will be Thursday. It’s not like it used to be when life was much more urgent, desperate. I…
Donald über Alles: Trump Virus spreads in Toronto
From InFocus at York University: Neo Nazi Publication “Your Ward News” appears at York University; Administration Promises Action Students from the Israeli Students Association (ISA), a CAMERA-supported group, recently discovered…