Why Are Alberta’s Energy Sector Wages So High?
Alberta has the highest average weekly wages in Canada. The Oil and Gas employees make twice what average industrial wages are in other sectors. Here is a link to an…
November 2017
Why Are Alberta’s Energy Sector Wages So High?
Alberta has the highest average weekly wages in Canada. The Oil and Gas employees make twice what average industrial wages are in other sectors. Here is a link to an…
First Nations Warn the Province Could Face Billion Dollar Lawsuit If Site C Goes Ahead
Leaders of the West Moberly and Prophet River First Nations are warning that the B.C. provincial government will face a billion dollar lawsuit over treaty violations if it decides to…
Wanna Wet Your Kennedy Assassination Appetite?
Foreign Policy has posted a very interesting interview with Jefferson Morley, veteran journalist and author of “The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton.”Morley discusses how the…
Why Are Alberta’s Energy Sector Wages So High?
Alberta has the highest average weekly wages in Canada. The Oil and Gas employees make twice what average industrial wages are in other sectors. Here is a link to an…
Policy over Partisanship
Two decades ago, I was involved with a student newspaper. It was called the Calumetro and it was published by the Calumet College Student Government. It was one of many…
Q&A with Chris Turner on the People, Pipelines and Politics of the Oilsands
Chris Turner’s new book, The Patch: The People, Pipelines and Politics of the Oil Sands, opens with a story about ducks. Actually, in the context of the oilsands, it’s the…
Piketty: The Market and Private Property Should Be The Slaves of Democracy
http://therealnews.com/t2/story:11858:Piketty:-The-Market-and-Private-Property-Should-Be-The-Slaves-of-Democracy Filed under: Uncategorized
After Collapse of Coalition Talks, What’s Next for Germany?
http://therealnews.com/t2/story:20532:After-Collapse-of-Coalition-Talks,-What’s-Next-for-Germany Filed under: Uncategorized
Imagine If We Decided Not to Lose. Imagine If We Decided to Fight Back.
We’re at war. It’s a war you sense more than feel. You read about it almost every day and most reports are very discouraging. We seem to be losing. It’s…
LawFact of the Day: Wills and Estates
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Thursday November 23, 2017. Today we are talking about Wills and Estates. For more information on Employment Law, Family Law, Wills,…
Austerity Apparatus Book Launch, Ottawa November 25!
Join us for a book release and discussion of J. Moufawad-Paul’s new book Austerity Apparatus in room 307 of University of Ottawa’s GSAED Building at 5pm on November 25th! Austerity…
Nov. 25 + Nov. 26: Expozine 2017!
Saturday Nov. 25 / samedi le 25 novembre, de 11h00 à 18h00 Sunday Nov. 26 / dimanche le 26 novembre, de 11h00 à 18h00 Église Saint-Denis, 454 Laurier E. (…
Feeling Stiff? Squat!
Hang loose my friends, it’ll help you live longer. Staying limber can help you not only feel young but live more life. A simple way to figure out if you…
Lancement du calendrier Certain Days Freedom for Political Prisoners
jeudi le 7 décembre de 17h30 à 19h30 à L’Euguélionne, librairie féministe 1426 Beaudry, Montreal, Quebec facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/136421840349229/ * This event will be in French, with whisper translation into English.…
The Illness Is Now A Pandemic
Donald Trump personifies what ails the United States. Jared Yates Sexton writes: Throughout the first year of his presidency and the entirety of his campaign, Mr. Trump has shown an…
The Secret Handshake
In her column in today’s Star (which does not yet appear to be available online), Linda McQuaig points out the remarkable similarities between the government of Justin Trudeau and that…
New column day
Here, on how the Saskatchewan Party’s climate obstruction is entirely out of touch with the province’s citizens. For further reading…– Abacus Data’s national poll of attitudes toward climate change policy…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Karl Nerenberg writes about Bill Morneau’s conflicts of interest – with particular attention to the NDP’s justified criticism of legislation aimed at…
Andrew Scheer’s Shameful and Disgusting Alt-Right Day
By now it should be clear that Andrew Scheer and his Rebel campaign manager Hamish Marshall, are turning the Cons into an Alt-Right party.A party of bigots and misogynists, more…