Monday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your Labour Day reading. – David Macdonald offers a reminder that any difficulty employers are having finding workers is a result of their failing to pay wages…
September 2022
Despite protests, Ecuador’s Guillermo Lasso embraces Canadian mining at the expense of Indigenous peoples
Leonidas Iza Salazar, President of Ecuador’s Indigenous umbrella organization CONAIE, during nationwide protests in June 2022. Photo by Nico Kingman/Amazon Frontlines. This June, Indigenous-led protests erupted across Ecuador in rejection…
With The Passage Of Time
Thirty years ago, Brian Mulroney was looking at the worst defeat in political history. His chosen successor, Kim Campbell, had won just two seats in the House of Commons. Anthony…
Wish a Caregiver Happy Labour Day!
The feminist scholar Arlene Kaplan Daniels coined the phrase "invisible work" to describe the many tasks that women have traditionally performed in their families and communities. Picking apart our common…
Wish a Caregiver Happy Labour Day!
The feminist scholar Arlene Kaplan Daniels coined the phrase “invisible work” to describe the many tasks that women have traditionally performed in their families and communities. Picking apart our common…
On yelling at Chrystia Freeland
This still image from a video posted to social media shows Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland being verbally accosted as she visits Grande Prairie, Alberta, August 26, 2022. Irrespective of…
A terrible day in Saskatchewan
This morning we woke up to the alerts on our cell phones: Canadian police searched across Saskatchewan for two suspects believed to have stabbed to death 10 people in an…
The Matches of the Month.
September is promising to be the most exciting and maybe the most terrifying month for political liaisons Canadians have seen for a while. It was kicked off by the reported…
Happy Labour Day: the tide of workers who wish they had a union is growing
Happy Labour Day! Overall union membership may be shrinking, but the number of workers who wish they had a union and would vote to join one if they could appears…
Danielle Smith & the Alberta Sovereignty Act
In June 1215 King John signed the Magna Carta, agreeing to terms that enshrined the principle that no one, not even a king, is above the law. And now 807…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Jasmine Kerrissy and Judith Stepan-Noris examine the state of the U.S. labour movement for Labour Day. And Gil McGowan points out the…
Poilievre And The Young
It appears that young voters are attracted to Pierre Poilievre. Sam Routley writes: The voting behaviour of young voters is highly volatile when it comes to both turnout and party…
What Open Border?
I was trying to figure out the ArriveCAN app today and I think this border-crossing nonsense would be appropriate for a police state but it really does not belong between…
Weekend funnies
Gordon Lightfoot – 83 years old! – performed at the CNE tonight in Toronto and people loved it, lots of tweets about it. Kiefer Sutherland happened to be in town…
Guest post by Steve Bradshaw: Is a regional transit system really a good deal for Edmonton?
By Steve Bradshaw Edmonton City Council is being asked to upload our Edmonton Transit Service into a regional system responsible for public transit throughout the entire Edmonton metropolitan area. Amalgamated…
Social Media is Making Me a Worse Reader
I have realized in the last few days that social media – especially but not only Twitter – has made me a worse reader.I mean this in a specific way.…
Social Media is Making Me a Worse Reader
I have realized in the last few days that social media – especially but not only Twitter – has made me a worse reader.I mean this in a specific way.…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Jennifer Ackerman reports on what Saskatchewan can expect from a COVID wave allowed to sweep across the province without precautions. Eva Ferguson points…