Kenney calls upon fast-food employers to raise wages, employ more Canadians: Federal Employment Minister Jason Kenney called a new moratorium on the fast-food industry’s use of the temporary foreign worker…
The whining from Canadian restaurants over the TFW cancellation is both offensive and insulting to Canada. Any restaurant anywhere in the country that has to close down because it cannot…
University of Montreal professor Paul Daly on the Supreme Court decision that the Harper Cons cannot unilaterally change the Senate: Constitutional change is “difficult . . . and why shouldn’t…
Critics trash environmental artwork This definitely falls into the “don’t piss on me and tell me its raining” category. What an insult from our Visual Arts Placement Jury to a…
Shorter statement from the Weyburn restaurant at the centre of the Temporary Foreign Worker program controversy: “It’s all the employees’ fault!” Darn it, that “restructuring” will just trip you up…
Now, it could be that the Harper government’s move to take humpback whales off the endangered species list is just a routine change which echoes similar downgrades by environmental organizations…
I’m not sure how the Hallelujah Chorus became a Christmas song — it’s a much more logical as an Easter celebration. Here is the Hallelujah Chorus by the 5th grade…
Air Canada apologizes for luggage toss caught on video – Toronto – CBC News: In spite of Air Canada saying that tossing bags down the stairs isn’t their policy, its…
Rich people are NOT just like the rest of us, only with money.Sometimes they’re just amazingly silly. Case in point — Josh Romney sends out a tweet with a photo…
Here’s what employers supposedly like about temporary foreign workers: Dan Kelly, president of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, recently told CBC News that many Canadian employers feel that temporary…
It couldn’t have happened to a more deserving guy: despite endorsements of Anders by Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Calgary cabinet heavyweight Jason Kenney, Liepert’s message that the area deserved…
From Thomas Walkom’s column about Jim Flaherty and the CBC cuts — CBC cuts show other side of Jim Flaherty: Those who knew him say he was hard-working, loyal to…
And I think I’m just in time to watch the so-called Fair Elections Act go down in flames. First, we find out that moving elections investigations to the AG department…
So Dr. Dawg retweeted one of my tweets and a bunch of great people let me know they have decided to follow me on Twitter — and so now I’m…
I have usually dismissed as wishful thinking those recent stories about Harper’s precarious position in the party. But maybe it is true that Harper’s control over the party is slipping,…
Lawrence Martin thinks just about everybody is reaching their gag limit on the Harper Cons: The strategy of the PMO has been to subjugate the other powers bases in Ottawa,…
Over the years, whenever there is a war going on just about anywhere, it’s The War Nerd, Gary Brecher, who seems to explain it better than anyone else.So I’ve been…
The University of Regina Cheer Team posted a “cowboys and Indians” photo, hastily removed with the apology that they didn’t intend to disrespect anyone. Well, of course not. But as…
I get the impression that the Parti Quebecois election campaign has rapidly fallen off the rails.Last weekend we heard about nothing except Pierre Karl Peladeau’s separatist yearnings and problematic ethics,…
If Sun News Network is Fox News North, then Pierre Karl Peladeau sounds to me like Donald Trump.Michael Den Tandt’s list of anecdotes sure makes Peladeau sound grotesquely egotistical poseur,…
