Politics and its Discontents

When it comes to jobs , we live in very precarious times, with fewer and fewer people securing full-time work with benefits. Paradoxically, ...

This epitomizes why I don't shop at Walmart. A training film was released yesterday showing the shameless propaganda the corporate gia...

To the red-meat crowd (a.k.a. the Harper base et alia), few things can seem more gratifying than an attack on unions. Viewed as the enemy ...

It's funny, isn't it, that the Harper regime can use our tax dollars to monitor us, manipulate us, and promulgate all kinds of pr...

P osted by MoS, the Disaffected Lib: Pierre Backpfeifengesicht Poilievre has declared Conservative war on Canada's "radical&qu...

This one's for you, young Tim . H/t Union Thugs

Once again in my neck of the woods, we are experiencing punishing cold, cold that is predicted to remain throughout the week, so it seems ...

Excerpted from a slide on how management should speak to employees to discourage union talk. As reported by ThinkProgress , the above is b...

In response to an opinion piece written by Stephen Skyvington espousing the Tim Hudak canard that mandatory union membership is one of th...

When considering the political motivations of Ontario Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak, the boy who would be premier, there seem ...

Continuing on with the theme of the minimum wage , which groups in both Canada and the United States are demonstrating to significantly incr...

Nobel Memorial Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz recently gave a powerful speech at the annual AFL-CIO convention in Los Angeles. Wat...

As usual, Star readers offer their penetrating commentary on recent events and the benighted Tim Hudak. Enjoy! 80-year-old woman tasere...

Several days ago I commented on a story from The Star about the unsavory labour practices of Richtree Market , a Toronto restaurant that &...

Most days that I post a blog entry, I choose my topic based on my reaction to news stories. Today, two disparate pieces seem particularly no...

All of us have a right to respect and dignity. Many of us do not receive it. Having been 'educated' in the Catholic system at a ti...

Crazed clerics are not the only ones possessed of an evangelical fervour. Young Tim Hudak, leader (at least for now) of the Ontario Progres...

They certainly seem to be singing from the same hymn book . Orwellian and hypocritical are inadequate descriptors of this little twit: ...

Many years ago, in the midst of my teaching career, there was a movement by a group of us to try to get the Ontario Teachers' Pension ...

I do hope young Tim Hudak enjoys this brief video , directed by Bruce McDonald: