More Evidence For A Social Wage

"A new report on Canada's Social Safety net proves what I have been saying here about the need for a Social Wage for ALL Canadians, that is a Living Wage or what was once called The Guaranteed Annual Income."

Basket Case

"Inflation rate exceeds 1,000 percent in Zimbabwe Gee that was the inflation rate in Weimar Germany prior to the rise of the fascists. Except in this case the fascists already rule in Zimbabwe."

Tory Bankers

"So who really benefits from the Tories tax cuts the most. Why the most underprivileged of all Canadians. The Banks. "

Tories Tinker with Taxes

"The Harpocrites are in the backroom this weekend, avoiding Earth Day working on your taxes. Well actually working on their wonky budget. It seems some have them have seen the light, that their GST tax cut and their baby bonuse won't help the average Canadian working family....

Spare the Taxpayer, Spur the Economy, Save the Planet

"Spare the Taxpayer, Spur the Economy, Save the Planet"

Long on Terrorism -- Short on Osama bin Laden

In this post 9/11 world, the Bush Administration uses terrorism as a pretext to do whatever they like, both at home and abroad. But there's a deafening silence from the White House on the topic of the terrorist mastermind, and leader of al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden.

JK Galbraith Speaks Truth To Power

"The truths are that egalitarian growth is efficient, that speculation must be regulated, that crime starts at the top and that peace is the primary public good"

And the rich get poorer

"The earnings of American college grads actually declined by 5.2% in real terms between 2000 and 2004. This is despite 2004 being a year of strong economic growth, low unemployment and growing productivity."

skull & bones

There's nothing interesting here. It's just a boring list of names.

Mo’ Money

"It was on this day in 1933 that a man named Charles Darrow trademarked the board game Monopoly. Darrow based the game on an earlier game called “The Landlord’s Game,” which had been designed by a woman named Elizabeth Magie. She’d designed the game...