Politics and its Discontents

As it hauls its billions in profits south of the border, Caterpillar executives should make a detour and stop in Ottawa to drop off the mone...

So the first lesson of the London massacre: Ottawa must be vigilant about vetting foreign investment and retaining jobs, but also mindful of...

I have to admit that nowadays I am feeling the pessimism of old strongly reemerging, not to the point of giving up my blog and whatever valu...

After a week out of the country with limited access to the Internet and Canadian news, I see things keep getting worse. First thing I read ...

I don't have too much time this morning, but I highly recommend Martin Regg Cohn's piece , which offers, amongst other things, a con...

Although those in the embrace of neo-liberalism would have us believe that unions and worker solidarity are but a quaint historical artifact...

Drawing comparisons between Republican animus toward labour and Harper government policies that permit the kind of outrageous corporate beha...

I have been offline for the past several days, the reason for which I may write about later. For now, I am taking the liberty of reproducin...

Today's Star editorial offers a gloomy but apparently realistic assessment of the direction Canada's manufacturing is headed in. A...

When I think of caterpillars (which, until recently, I have to admit, has been rarely), I think of a slow-moving yet determined creature on ...

After unilaterally imposing the terms of its last contract offer on its workers, terms of which entail the halving of wages and a substantia...