Politics and its Discontents

Given the odious, intrusive and likely unconstitutional nature of Bill C-377, the 'private member's' bill covered with the indel...

The other day I wrote a post about the resurrection of Bill C-377, the Harper backed private member's bill that would wage war against ...

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 ...

So what else is new? In today's Star , Tim Harper tells a tale of the ongoing indefatigable contempt Canada's putative prime minis...

A bit of a busy day today, so I only have time right now to recommend today's editorial in The Star, a timely warning about the im...

In my favorite Shakespearian play, Hamlet , there is a scene wherein his erstwhile friends, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, explain that ...

That perhaps might have been the call in Michigan yesterday, as it joined 23 other states in enacting so called 'right-to-work-legislati...

In its ongoing and odious servitude to a reactionary constituency, the Harper regime continues to use the heavy hand of government to t...

In two recent posts , I discussed Bill C-377, a Harper-driven anti-union measure disguised as a private member's bill. Introduced b...

The other day I wrote a post about Bill C-377, ostensibly a private member's bill put forward by Conservative MP Russ Hiebert that...

Although I believe unreservedly in the vital role that unions play in both protecting and promoting workers' rights, I make no apol...