A Clean Federal NDP Campaign …
A quick summary of what the NDP need to do now to win a majority in the 2015 federal election and free Canada from Dirty Oil and appeal to BCers…
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The politics of “ableism” and hard-working babies
If there was a party game that could be applied to the recent provincial election, it would have involved some kind of participant action every time a politician uttered the…
A Balanced Life: Reality or Illusion?
By George McLaren You must have heard the clichés repeated many times over. “There’s no rest for the wicked, (or the righteous, for that matter),” depending on the degree of…
“To Be, Or Not To Be”: Work-Life Balance
By: Iaroslavna Serenko Working at a large law firm in Toronto, I sadly observed tens of files on every desk each day. With such enormous amount of work, feelings of…
Balancing Act: Career or Personal Life
by Kate Lucoff Creating the perfect balance between career and personal life has always been a challenge in any profession, but particularly when it comes to such high demanding professions…
Work-life balance is it possible?
By: Amber McVittie-Quinn It is no secret that the legal profession is a demanding one. Although it is glamourized in the media, it is well known that the practice puts…
Women, work life balance and the law
By: Vicky Sparks The idea of work life balance is whispered about with the awe and mystery of the loch ness monster in most professions, but especially law. What is…
Women in law: achieving work-life balance
By: Inna Maister Nowadays it is difficult for women to be an excellent worker and mother at the same time. Especially it relates to women, who work in sphere of…
All Work and No Play: How can we find a balance?
By Lisa-Marie Hill Are you the 1 and 4 Canadian workers that admits to being highly stressed in your day to day life? Do you find it hard to balance…
Life of a lawyer in a tug of war between job and family
Life of a lawyer in a tug of war between job and family – By Deepika Choudhary Being a lawyer and a Parent at a same time is a difficult…
Work and Family – Finding the right balance….for Lawyers
By: Tamir Salomon Finding the right balance between work and family is a tough hill to climb, but it is very much attainable. With the right amount of preparation and…
Life Work Balance: Attainable, “Yes” or “No”
By A. Small There seems to be a lot of controversy whether a life work balance can exist, as I have found out by reading various articles posted on the…
Summer solstice, 2014: seconds before sunset
The sun sets over Big Lake, near St. Albert, Alberta, seconds before 10:07 p.m. The view from the birdwatching platform.
Work life balance in legal profession and changing times
By Harkirat Singh Kang Today in the fast paced world it’s difficult to maintain a proper work balance. At one hand one has his own personal life encompassing family life…
Legal professionals strive for work life balance
by Sajal Chowdhury The legal professionals usually work long hours and its bit harder for them to manage work-life balance that they inherited from their colleagues, senior lawyers and culture…
Solar Tour 2014
Cowessess wind turbine. 800kW at 32mi/h Has Li-ion batteries. Solar farm and home system of 10kW Inverter anti-islanding. Prevents electrifying the grid while grid is down. Isolation ring for the…
School is Out, Do the Teachers Get Ready?
B.C. teachers’ strike: government agrees to Vince Ready as mediator Teachers have been calling for a mediated solution to their strike since Thursday CBC News Posted: Jun 20, 2014 2:58…
Won’t Take a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Smoke Blows…
Tories and Liberals gang up on NDP over mailings—why now? What’s to be gained by a normally secretive all-party club of MPs attacking some of its members? By Leslie MacKinnon,…
Why Mainstream Media Is Failing Canadians
Today’s corporate media can’t be trusted to tell us the truth about anything. We need alternatives. Now.
Work is Important but Not on Account of life
By: Sharifullah Mahboob The founder of Pakistan Muhammad Ali Jinnah said in an address to his nation “work, work and work until your hear ceases to work”. Work has an…