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Canada lost 400,000 manufacturing jobs and Tories pretend there’s no problem
By Nathan Cullen, NDP MP for Skeena—Bulkley Valley, BC More than 1.3 million Canadians are out of work today. The government has added more than $150 billion in debt to the national debt. That is more than $4,000 for every
Poilievre under fire for tweeting misleading job numbers citing satirical twitter account
By Mary Simpson Jobs minister Pierre Poilievre has come in for heavy criticism and ridicule for tweeting that Canada has gained 65,000 full time jobs in June citing a satirical twitter account while remaining silent on the net job loss
Neoliberalism and Red Toryism: a Further Reflection on Political Philosophy and Branding
By H. Grant Timms Some might point out, in response to my previous column, that, well, times change and so it really does not matter what parties call themselves. Today’s conservatives, liberals and democratic socialists are not bound by the
What’s Inside the Conservatives’ Box
By H. Grant Timms With a Conservative party ad running over and over (ad nauseum) throughout the NHL playoffs (and since), I could not help but think about political marketing, packaging and image making. The ‘nice hair’ anti-Trudeau ad is
Depart of Justice on trial today for not vetting bills for constitutionality
By Christopher Pearson Edgar Schmidt, a former special advisor and general counsel to the Department of Justice, will appear in Federal Court in Ottawa this morning to present his claim against the government demanding that the Minister and Deputy Minister
Conservative’s ISIS ad violates Geneva Convention, opposition says
By Mary Simpson The Conservative Party of Canada’s new ad using ISIS imagery of prisoners of war to attack the Liberal Party leader Justin Trudeau’s stance on the terror group violates the Geneva Convention on the treatment of PoWs, according
Students footing hefty tuition bill as government funding for universities fall
By Christopher Pearson A disturbing trend is beginning to form where university revenue coming from tuition is growing rapidly while government funding is falling, according the latest figures coming from from Statistics Canada. The data show that between the years
Open letter to Justin Trudeau: Your Conservative light policies feed voter cynicism
By Derek Birch Young people don’t vote. Why don’t they vote? No one under the age of 35 even remembers a time when politicians actually did the will of the people. For anyone under 35 this means an entire lifetime
Truth, reconciliation, and the government’s assimilationist ethic
By H. Grant Timms Though the release of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s report dominated the news the week of its release, typical of today’s 24 hour (or less) cycle, the talk it generated has all but ceased in the
TFW pilots hired at Canadian Forces Base in Ontario, records show
Temporary foreign workers were recruited to work as pilots at the Canadian Forces Base in Trenton, Ontario, records obtained from Service Canada show. The Canadian Forces Land Advanced Warfare Centre awarded a contract to assist parachute training to Rampart Aviation
