CN Profits From Accidents

"Last year after a record number of dangerous and toxic accidents CN promised to plow money into improved safety. It was just a good press release. This year we again suffered more dangerous accidents with CN. Because safety was sacrificed for the bottom line....again. ...

Conservative Labour Policy

"This is scary.....what changes could the Conservatives be contemplating making to Canada's Federal Labour laws.... Federal Labour Standards Review, certainly none to benefit workers or unions.....not when you meet with these folks.... Canada's labour minister...

And They Oppose Interracial Marriage Too

"Attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund obtained success within the last week in four lawsuits filed to protect public school students who want to tell their classmates why they oppose the Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade, decided 34 years ago today."

Conservative Nanny State

"Here is a another example of the Conservative Nanny State bailing out the private sector. Private cable companies, Shaw and Videotron, who leech off the public air waves and off the municipal cable infrastructure, pull a capital strike over the Canadian TV Fund and the...

Right Wing Drive By Smearing

"The MSM and Blogosphere is all aghast over the dirty tricks from the rightwing media accusing Clinton of dissing Obama. But lost in the media glare was this attack on Democratic Presidential contender Bill Richardson. And it is even slimier than the attacks on Obama and...

Harper Cops Out

"Despite the cash settlement and the official apology from the New Government of Canada, it wasn't our fault it was that other government, what Harper would not do is clean house in the RCMP and CSIS of those who are directly responsible for what happened to Arar."

Blogging Tories Continue To Slander Arar

"While the Grande Formage his-self today apologized for the Canadian Government, the RCMP and CSIS treatment of Maher Arar there are those in his peanut gallery over at the Blogging Tories that continue to spread the lie that Arar is Al-Quaeda or a terrorist, or...."

PETA Kills Cats & Dogs

"Trial set to start for PETA workers caught euthanizing, dumping cats and dogs Well after all cats and dogs are not vegans. So PETA probably feels justified in taking out these carnivores."

Contientalism

" Continetalism here we come. This has always been the main dispute between the Nationalist Left of the ruling class against the Contientalist Right of the ruling class."

Rumpelstiltskin Clinic

"Remember the tale of Rumpelstiltskin....... Pay up or we keep baby, Indonesian clinic tells poor parents Anywhere else this would be considered kidnapping. An Indonesian clinic is keeping a baby until her impoverished parents pay the escalating bill for her delivery and care."

RCMP Union

"Scarlet tunics and union cards? Mounties press for bargaining rights "Right now, it's like a dictatorship. When the commissioner decides something, nobody can argue, nobody can come up and explain that this thing here is not right," Tony Cannavino, president of...

Falacious Argument

"$10 minimum wage would cost 66000 jobs: Sorbara Yet when he and other MPP's gave themselves a 25% raise there were no losses in jobs.  "

Time For A Guaranteed Annual Income

"The New Canadian Government asked for it and now they have it but will they do anything about it? No excuse for grinding poverty in Canada: advisory council report"

Gender Parity

" Today is not only Robbie Burns day but it is also the birthday of British author and feminist Virginia Wolfe who was born in 1882. And she gets forgotten because of all the brouhaha around Burns Day. Ironic that, if it wasn't another example of unconscious systemic...

Hand's In Your Pocket

"NDP Leader Jack Layton is accusing Canada’s big banks of “gouging” clients by charging ATM fees to access their own cash. Layton says he wants the practice outlawed. He says it’s just not fair to force someone to pay $1.50 for withdrawing or...