How bizarre
A tweet responding to this week’s column post raises a point worth plenty more discussion. So let’s go into a bit more detail about how the Sask Party’s response to…
labour.
New column day
Here, on how the evolution of labour rights under Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms can be traced directly to anti-labour overreach by right-wing governments – and how Brad Wall…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – The New Democrat comments on the need to develop the NDP as a movement as well as a party. And a national movement…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Geoffrey Stevens discusses the basic problem behind the Cons’ insistence on cutting back actual help to people while wasting billions on prisons…
Monday Morning Links
Assorted content to start your week. – Tim Harper comments on the Harper Cons’ collusion in a war against Canada’s middle class: Under the Investment Canada Act, (foreign) takeovers are…
Debunking Anti-Union Myths
In this first installment of a promising series of videos York University professor Dr. Stephanie Ross eviscerates the myth and right wing neoliberal meme that unions are no longer needed…
Sunday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Vivian Belik looks at the long-ignored outcomes from a guaranteed income experiment in Dauphin, MB – and finds that the positive results of…
Leadership 2012 Roundup
Thanks to an end-of-week conference it’s been a few days since I’ve done a general roundup on the NDP leadership race. And based on the pace of activity, it looks…
Parliament in Review: November 30, 2011
After the previous day’s debacle in which government-sponsored amendments to the Cons’ dumb-on-crime bill were ruled out of order, one might have expected at least some acknowledgment of fallibility on…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Mike Ward nicely describes the “Orwellian reverie” being used by the Cons to try to manipulate the public into acceding to the every…
Molly’sBlog 2012-02-03 21:24:00
AMERICAN LABOUR: WORKERS WIN INJUNCTION AGAINST WALMART CONTRACTORS: Here’s an interesting item and an appeal for solidarity from the Making Change At Walmart group. *************************Workers win injunction against Walmart contractorsPosted…
Oh, Those ‘Radicals’!
Today the HarperCons stepped into the cesspool polluted waters tarsands issue to announce a water monitoring project which will take 3 years and $50 million to fully implement. the regina…
Monday Morning Links
Assorted content to start your week. – Susan Delacourt wonders whether the Cons plan to launch an attack on the environmental movement to match the schism which helped the Libs…
ode to a hero: attorney for the damned (with thanks to jill lepore)
Clarence Darrow was one of my earliest heroes. I first encountered Darrow in the guise of Spencer Tracy, who portrayed the lawyer in the 1960 movie “Inherit the Wind”. Darrow…
Molly’sBlog 2012-01-26 20:49:00
CANADIAN LABOUR QUÉBEC: RIO TINTO LOCKOUT SOON TO ENTER SECOND MONTH: In the town of Alma Québec the lockout of employees of Alcan will soon be into its second month.…
save peel region public day care
Tomorrow, Peel Region Councillors will vote on whether to end publicly financed, union-staffed daycare services in Mississauga and Brampton. A report from an audit by KPMG – released only days…
Conservatives Federal Public Service Cuts: Up To 68,000 Jobs To Vanish
The cuts behind the curtain: How federal cutbacks will slash services and increase unemployment. Federal cutbacks announced in the 2010 and 2011 budgets will result in more than 60,000 job…
belafonte on obama: "a dagger in our sense of justice"
On a recommendation from a friend, I watched Harry Belafonte interviewed by Charlie Rose in New York City. Belafonte – musician, actor, social-justice activist, radical – is a joy to…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Jim Stanford highlights a trend of employers forcing work stoppages in order to force massive concessions out of their employees – and notes…