Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Bryce Covert rightly challenges the claim that poverty bears any relationship to an unwillingness to work – along with other attempts to…
Jason Kenney
Too Little, Too Late
So, Jason Kenney has applied some bandages to the hemorrhaging Temporary Foreign Workers program. The changes prevent employers in places with high unemployment rates from applying for temporary foreign workers…
Three reasons why Ottawa’s Temporary Foreign Workers Program ‘reforms’ likely mean little
There’s always been a worldwide pool of skilled and unskilled employees like these fellows for jobs in North America – immigration. Below: Employment Minister Jason Kenney and Immigration Minister Chris…
Beware of Those Bearing Pledges. They Might Just Have to Honour Them
Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution. Sophocles Pledges are nothing new for politicians. Some are broad in scope, like FDR’s pledge to…
Tim Hudak Wants to be Like Mitch Daniels. No Wonder. He’s Another Mike Harris
Indiana- Louise Cohoon was at home when her 80-year-old mother called in a panic from Terre Haute: The $97 monthly Medicaid payment she relied on to supplement her $600-a-month income…
I Have A Simpler Solution
The headline reads, Restaurant owners seek meeting with PM over foreign worker freeze The group representing Canada’s restaurant owners is calling for an urgent meeting with Prime Minister Stephen Harper…
Jason Kenney’s Never-Ending Fast Food Nightmare
Oh goody. Pass the ketchup and call an ambulance. It looks like Jason Kenney's Little Shop of Con Horrors and Foreign Workers just got even MORE entertaining.Because now not only…
Jason Kenney and the Foreign Workers Turd Blossom
Oh dear. I'm afraid I have some shocking Con fashion news to report today. It seems that Jason Kenney has been forced to replace his fine feathery foreign workers pimp…
Sunday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your Sunday reading. – James Greiff makes the case against the right’s faith-based reliance on costly high-end tax cuts in place of attracting people through jobs and…
Jason Kenney and the Foreign Worker’s Farce
Well I see that Jason Kenney has been reduced to playing King Canute.Frantically trying to hold back the rising tide of foreign workers flooding into Canada. Trying to make it…
Where’s the beef? Ottawa and the fast-food lobby are serving nothing but baloney about the need for Temporary Foreign Workers
Whatever it says on the menu, fast food restaurant owners, other employers of temporary foreign workers and their pals in the Harper Government are serving baloney. Below: Dominique M. Gross…
TFWP: Yet Another Reason To Shut It Down
The consequences of the Harper Government’s widening of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program over the last several years keeps going from bad to worse. At first it was employers choosing…
Canadian Airlines Hired Temporary Foreign Worker Pilots
by: Obert Madondo | May 11, 2014 Obert Madondo, Editor, The Canadian Progressive Canadian airlines exploited the Harper Conservatives’ Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) to “systematically” exclude Canadian pilots and…
The Day the Jason Kenney Went Crazy on Twitter
Lordy. For a moment the other day I thought that I might have to change my poster for Jason Kenney's leadership campaign, fearing that he had finally gone over the…
Jason Kenney, Stephen Harper, and the Foreign Workers Monster
You should have seen them today in the House of Commons, like a two-headed beast attacking the foreign workers monster they created.Stephen Harper vowing to crackdown on those who abuse…
Jason Kenney and the Issue That Could Kill the Harper Cons
Oh boy. Try as I might I can't escape the feeling that things are out of control in Harperland.If it isn't the snow in Saskatchewan, it's the runaway blimp in…
The Harperland Spring and the Big Con Makeover
If it wasn't for the fact that it's almost May, and Spring still feels like Autumn, I might have trouble believing I'm still living in Canada, or Harperland.For when I…
The Monster Burger and the Inner Torment of Jason Kenney
Lordy. I think it's safe to say that Jason Kenney is now wrestling with his greatest inner torment since he chose chastity over sex, so many painful years ago.For he…
TFWP: SHUT IT DOWN, Minister Kenney
If the C. D. Howe Institute study released yesterday isn’t a clue as to what is so fundamentally flawed with the TFWP, I don’t know what is. In its report,…
Political Ambition And Public Outrage
The interesting thing about political ambition and public outrage is that sometimes they work synergistically to produce positive results. Jason Kenney, whose ambition to become the Conservative Party’s next leader…