Politics and its Discontents

There are two lead letters in today's Star that bear reproducing. Expect no admission of a flawed ideology on the part of the neolibe...

The above observation is voiced by a former grocery store owner whose business closed shortly after Walmart moved into her town. But this is...

Yesterday's post revolved around The Next System Project, an initiative committed to exploring replacements for the traditional institu...

I thought long and hard before making the decision to post the following, for two reasons: one, in the broader scheme of things it is a qu...

Despite being on track to meet its 2014 financial objectives , Scotiabank , with a total $5.57 billion of net profit in the first three qu...

About a year ago I wrote two posts on Richtree Market, the union-busting Toronto eatery that got the clever idea of terminating all of it...

The advertising would have us believe that Tim Hortons is a Canadian institution and icon that we should all revere as patriotic citizens....

... seems to be undergoing some serious perturbations these days. Earlier in the month came the story of three McDonald's outlets in B...

Despite the best efforts of the Harper government to make its own addiction to the fossil fuel agenda the Canadian people's as well, i...

Anyone who reads my blog regularly and has drawn the conclusion that I am anti-capitalism would be completely wrong. I have nothing agains...

My friend Gary recently alerted me to this, which should sicken all Canadian citizens. It is a story of corporate greed, massive amounts of ...

For the true cost of those bargains that we all slavishly delight in (cue Pavlov's dog), you might want to read this article about Walm...

I've just finished reading Confessions of a Sociopath , written by the pseudonymous M.E. Thomas, a law professor who confesses herself...

We hear it all the time from those who slavishly and unconscionably parrot the corporate line: raising the minimum wage is a job-killer. Whi...

There is a segment in the documentary, The Corporation , where Michael Walker of The Fraser Institute extols how corporations help developin...

The question of personal integrity is one that is very near and dear to my heart. Since literature at its best is a reflection of some of ...

I'm not sure who is actually responsible for breaking down these outsourcing statistics according to province and company, but we cer...

As fellow blogger LeDaro pointed out to me the other day in a comment on my post about the Royal Bank's outsourcing of jobs, such pr...

Somehow, I don't think George Orwell would be too impressed by the RBC response to its public relations nightmare over the outsourcin...

RBC CEO Gord Nixon I just knew there had to be a logical explanation. This explains that .