Politics and its Discontents

Their protests notwithstanding, the truth is that raising the minimum wage is good for business . And it isn't just the behemoths depi...

In the Book of Luke , Jesus is reported to have said the following: I tell you that ... there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner ...

The opportunity to report about something positive in the kind of blog I write is rare. For example, while reports abound of corporate the...

Despite the fact that I think and write a great deal about the disparities and inequities that plague our society, I am almost embarrassed...

California, as you have likely heard, is raising its minimum wage to $15 by 2022. Although the efficacy of the increase is being hotly con...

Over the years on this blog, I have been deeply and justifiably critical of the excesses of unfettered capitalism. Degradation of the envi...

As Johnny Carson used to say, "Folks, I merely report these things" .

Were I a gifted artist (or any kind of artist, for that matter) I would draw Andrea Horwath in a two-panel caricature. In the first panel,...

There has been very much a predictable reaction from business to the Wynne government's decision to raise the Ontario minimum wage to $...

Although this is an American solution, I don't see why it wouldn't work in Canada as well. Click here if you would like more i...

Last evening I watched a fascinating documentary on PBS' Nature * about the black crested macaque, a monkey that is endemic to rainf...

Given the disappointing news about the minimum wage coming out of Ontario, and the relentless propaganda from the right about wage increas...

Poverty in perpetuity. That is what Ontario's 'socially-progressive' Premier, Kathleen Wynne, has condemned the working poor t...

We Canadians talk a good game. We want our unemployed to be able to find jobs, we want those with the need to be able to readily access th...

Although I have written several previous posts on the need to substantially increase the minimum wage so that it becomes a living wage, I...

It is a truism to state that the poor have little power to influence the political discussion. Those toiling away at minimum wage jobs , our...

The struggle to raise the minimum wage has been the subject of several of my recent posts . The current wage of $10.25 in Ontario is as in...

I have written several recent posts on the campaign gaining traction across the United States to raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour fro...

In addressing a recent convention of the AFL-CIO, outspoken U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren, about whom I have posted several times , offered ...