Sun News twice today
This morning I went on Krista Erickson’s show to talk about Ontario MPP severance packages. I pointed out that MPPs haven’t received pensions since 1996 and rules guiding severance packages…
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ConCalls: Moving #RoboCon Along
It’s a national disgrace that 18 months after the criminal phonecalls that ruined the 2011 election, there have been 0 people charged with the fraud of misdirecting voters to fake…
Ontario Shores’ activists win awards from Durham Labour Council
The Durham Labour Council has honoured OPSEU’s campaign for workplace safety at Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences with two awards. Local 331 President Yvonne Lewis has won the…
CBS: Deb Matthews’ indifference costing quality jobs in northern Ontario
Health Minister Deb Matthews is often regarded by the media as one of the front runners to replace Dalton McGuinty as Ontario Premier – a surprise given the intense scrutiny…
Ontario Shores: Pushing worker mental illness back into the closet
Recently the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) posted bus shelter ads that noted two of three individuals with mental illness suffer in silence. The stigma of mental illness…
Government Releases DG3 and a Natural Gas Teaser
Today the government released the Decision-Gate 3 numbers, the key analysis before sanction of the Muskrat Falls mega-project. While we’ve all been looking forward to these numbers for a long…
Sandy Wind Blows
The largest hurricane recorded is underway, and it’s hitting the US and Canada. Is it because of climate change? The short answer is, yes. If you’re asking that question because…
Geoff Campbell, storified
Hey, So if you’re familiar with my experience you may know I’ve been using this cool social media curation service called Storify. I’ve used it to collect reactions to the…
Newt Gingrich defends Mourdock, says women need to “get over it”
Again, it never ceases to amaze me how much men like to talk about abortion, and limiting – or, eliminating – women’s access to it. And there’s no shortage of…
Russian Anti-Gay Lobby Warns About Gay Milk
Other countries take note. If you enact crazy anti-gay laws forbidding any positive portrayals of homosexuality, here’s what you can expect to happen: A popular brand of milk is being…
Salt Lake City Tribune endorses Obama
That’s right, Obama. Utah, home of America’s largest Mormon community – of which Mitt Romney is one – endorses the non-Mormon Democrat, President Barack Obama. Here’s what the Salt Lake…
GOP “full of racists”
Colin Powell’s former chief of staff says the Republican party is “full of racists.” Exactly no one is surprised.
Greed is Driving a Steak Through My Heart…..
Canadians ‘need to know’ about mechanically tenderized meat – in CBC online October 26,2012 Warning!!! Vegetarians, this posting contains suggestive references to meat…. Once again, greed trumps safety… Since I…
New Kingston rehab and mental health hospital a departure from recent P3s
The decision to do a long-term private deal to build and maintain the new Kingston rehab and mental health hospital suggests the McGuinty government is ramping up its efforts once…
ConCalls: The Sanctity of Election Fraud
Below is my comment left on Sixth Estate regarding the disastrously wrong Supreme Court decision yesterday. It protects the sanctity of election fraud, instead of Canadians’ right to vote in…
Geoff Campbell, storified
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Exchange Rates, the Price of Oil and the Enbridge Northern Gateway Project Joint Review Panel
This is a guest post by Paul Tulloch, of LivingWork.ca and frequent commentator on this blog, reporting on some significant and timely work he prepared for the northern gateway pipeline…
Responding to Op-Ed Comments
Today’s assignment in PR Writing is to find an organization’s op-ed on a news website and comment on the risks and rewards to the organization in regards to the comment…
So, Alberta, You Think BC’s Gonna Dance?
Oil companies going unpunished for thousands of North Sea spills I am including a link to this article in the Guardian online of Oct 25, 2012, because it is absolutely…
Privacy breaches can cost $214 per record — Cavoukian
The audience laughed when Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner Ann Cavoukian said she got called on a weekend over a major privacy breach. “I don’t know how they got…