Politics

Jamie Biggar — The Harper Conservatives are trying to rush their 242-page election law through Parliament with minimal debate and no expert testimony, despite major flaws that would have lasting consequences for our democracy.[1] It boils down to this: instead ...

Sean Devlin— On the morning of Feb. 13, six people used approximately 300 cans of donated food to barricade the entrance to Finance Minister Jim Flaherty’s office. The action was taken in protest of yesterday’s federal budget which failed to ...

Elizabeth May — It used to be understood that a healthy economy included low unemployment and available jobs right across the country. Pockets of persistently high unemployment would receive help in stimulus investments and in enhanced unemployment insurance coverage. Now, ...

The belly laughs from Toronto’s comedy couple never ends. It’s been announced that the riotous Ford Bros. Comedy Tent is opening on YouTube. They’ve needed a bigger tent than CFRB radio or Toronto City Hall to fully explore the comedic ...

Sonia Singh —The Ontario government will increase the minimum wage to $11 as far away as June.While this increase would recognize that wages have been frozen for four years, it still locks Ontario workers 16% below the poverty line.”For Premier ...

While free trade continues to drain Canada of jobs shipped to the U.S. south and to Mexico, Tory corporatists are blaming the Ontario Grits and Dippers for jobs being drained from the province. “Ontario can be a place where people ...

Elizabeth May — I have been over the last few days, like most Canadians, getting the deluge of retrospectives on 2013.  Rob Ford’s name looms large in these reviews, along with Duffy and Wallin, Senate expenses and shenanigans. This review ...

Moving forward to the final meeting of the Budget Committee, Deputy Mayor Norm Kelly is pleased to confirm his support for the Budget Committee and their work they have undertaken to bring forward recommendations to deliver a fiscally sustainable budget. ...

Canadian Taxpayers Federation— CTF has crunched the numbers and Ontario taxpayers will keep less of their paycheques after January 1st as EI and Canadian Pension Plan taxes both go up.In its annual New Year’s Tax Changes report, the CTF has ...

Ontario’s Tory Premier Kathleen Wynne (in Liberal disguise), has created an immigration opportunity for Indian high-tech workers to replace those local employees scarfed away from Canadian companies by foreigner Cisco Systems to whom she awards $190 million of your dollars. ...