Media get it wrong on Bank of Canada minimum wage study
Over a million workers in Ontario just got a big raise thanks to tireless, bottom-up orgainizing, but if you look to the media it’s a bad news story. The same,…
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Canadian economists support $15, media round-up
53 Canadian economists, myself among them, have signed an open letter in support of the $15 per hour minimum wage. The letter follows on the immense bottom-up campaign in Ontario…
Note To Tim Hortons Head Office: Please Respect Your Workers
On Sunday, I wrote about The Toronto Star reporting that a Tim Hortons franchisee is eliminating paid breaks for his/her employees as retaliation against the June 1 increase of the…
Tim Hortons Takes Aim And Fires
The advertising would have us believe that Tim Hortons is a Canadian institution and icon that we should all revere as patriotic citizens. Who can forget the role the coffee…
She Speaks!
But unfortunately, the politically timid (opportunistic?) leader of the Ontario NDP, Andrea Horwath, doesn’t really have much to say as she finally figures out what her political ambitions will permit…