Politics and its Discontents

That's what Alberta's nurses are calling the move by Jason Kenney's UCP to roll back their wages by 3%.  In Kenneyland, contrac...

With all that is going on in the world, this is where Jason Kenney directs his fervour, railing against a Netflix cartoon called Bigfoot Fam...

Jason Kenney's UCP has achieved a majority in Alberta . Proclaiming that Alberta is open for business and that “[h] ope is on the hor...

The headline reads, Restaurant owners seek meeting with PM over foreign worker freeze The group representing Canada's restaurant ow...

The interesting thing about political ambition and public outrage is that sometimes they work synergistically to produce positive results. J...

As noted yesterday , the Temporary Foreign Workers Program continues to cause both grief and outrage among Canadians. The latest publicly-...

Although the Temporary Foreign Workers Program predates the ascension to power of the Harper regime, there is mounting evidence that the a...

Despite assurances last year that the TFW (Temporary Foreign Workers) program was being reformed because of a myriad of reported abuses , t...

To suggest that the Harper regime is working relentlessly to diminish the Canadian soul is hardly a remarkable insight. Examples abound...

Lucene Charles, the St. Vincent native who has been battling deportation from Canada for some time now because of her failure to fill ...

After many setbacks , Sayed Shah Sarifi, the brave young Afghan interpreter who recently arrived in Toronto thanks to his own tenacity ...

Thanks to the doggedness of The Toronto Star, for whom social justice and journalistic integrity are more than mere words, the long tal...

I have expressed more than once in this blog my opinion that the Harper regime aims to make Canadians feel powerless and disenfranchise...

Well, you have to hand it to them. The Harper regime never forgoes an opportunity to exploit tragedy: In an interview airing on CBC&...

The rhetoric about overpaid doctors notwithstanding, I suspect the public loves it as much as I do when the medical profession defends its p...

Known in legal circles as politicius pontificus interruptus , Edmonton police are doing everything within their power to prevent this ter...

I wonder if Dr. Chris Keefer's sterling example helped inspire this . Interesting that because they disagree with his cutting...

The Globe and Mail arrogantly proclaims itself to be 'Canada's national newspaper' and ' Canada's paper of record .'...

Because she failed to complete the paperwork to achieve permanent residency status when she married a Canadian 15 years ago, St. Vincent nat...

Well, here it is, Christmas Eve, and Santa has been rechecking his list, and five have been struck from it. This sad distinction goes to th...