Bidding Farewell to Boreal Citizen
Ahhh…blogging. So rewarding. So time consuming. After much deliberation, I’ve decided that it’s time for Boreal Citizen to come to an end. It’s already past due, drawn out by the…
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On Michael Sona
Officials from Elections Canada have laid an information in a Guelph court alleging one charge against Michael Sona, a former Conservative Party of Canada staffer and campaign executive. You guys…
Campaign: It’s time we challenged our employers to talk about mental illness
Partners for Mental Health are blunt. They call it the cost of doing nothing. That’s the cost of employers failing to address mental illness in the workplace. P4MH has all…
OPSEU provides TV support for Kingston P3 plebiscite campaign
KINGSTON – The Ontario Public Service Employees Union is supporting the Kingston community plebiscite campaign by sponsoring a new television commercial to air over the next two weeks on CKWS-TV.…
Oil Spills Create Jobs
I’m severely disappointed in the lack of vision that conservatives have regarding our economy. Faced with information that burning a lot of fossil fuel is not able to be sustained…
Show me – some countries put everyone’s salary on the sunshine list
“If there’s a more pointless annual story than the sunshine list, I can’t think of it.” – Tweet today from Adam Radwanski, Globe and Mail columnist. Radwanski didn’t always think…
New Look and Site Update
You are probably thinking that things look differently – well that’s because they do. I just updated the back-end of the site (it’s the database and WordPress by the way)…
WikiLeaks: Major Revelations Is What Journalists Do – See @carwinb
There’s some crow to eat this morning, for anti-Assange, anti-Wikileaks people. Last year we got confirmation in the form of a WikiLeaks-Strafor leak of all things, that Assange had been…
Forward Together #UofR: Buffy St. Marie – Live Blog
Buffy St. Marie tackled the subject of Aboriginal peoples’ self image. What has been the basis for it? In many cases in popular culture, it’s from philosophers in Europe who…
Video: Inside the Nicaraguan Maquilas
OPSEU is engaged in solidarity work that extends well beyond our borders. In February we travelled with Cobourg’s Horizons of Friendship to look at development projects in Nicaragua. Our 9-part…
Second deadline for PSW Registry is cancelled – for now
Let’s be clear: there is no present deadline for anybody to get on the Personal Support Worker (PSW) Registry. Employers may be setting their own deadline, but this is not…
Doing What’s Right Doesn’t Always Look Cool
“Finish your food; there are children starving in… Regina.” When I first started recovering items from dumpsters, I was of course keenly aware of the social stigma implications. I consoled…
Wab Kinew at UofR Minifie Lecture
On Tuesday I tried to live blog Wab’s lecture from my smart phone, but the WiFi or something else wasn’t working right. The lecture will be online soon, and is…
Under LHIN investigation, Northern hospital files $500,000 legal action against activists
A northern Ontario hospital and two senior staff have initiated a $500,000 legal claim against a group of nine activists opposing formal amalgamation as the North East LHIN has begun…
Oil The Humanity!
Oww, my sides would be hurting from laughing at the irony of this situation, if it weren’t a deadly serious joke that the Conservatives are playing on Canadians. On a…
Sask. energy building codes consultation – Live blog
7:30 I have a feeling I won’t be here long. It’s not quite what I thought I’d see. A short 50 minute PowerPoint presentation. It’s not a technical overview of…
Transportation: Where to go, and how to get there in #YQR
– Most of my speech as heard in the video above, and posted to my Regina politics blog: I’m very pleased to have been asked to speak at Campion College…
ConCalls: Penashue Campaigns Early #cdnpoli
Kady at CBC learned that Peter Penashue’s campaign started while he was still a Minister, suggesting the Conservatives calculated at least one last photo-op before he stepped down as Minister…
$12.4 billion in tax revenue lost due to recession, not overspending — CCPA
Officially Ontario ended its recession in 2009, but the effects still linger in 2013. The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives estimates the “great recession” of 2008-09 and the slow recovery…