Category Archives: Front Page
Harper ignores TRC report in National Aboriginal Day message, NDP promises action
Prime Minister Stephen Harper failed to mention the recently released Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s report in his message marking National Aboriginal Day today, while the opposition New Democratic Party acknowledged the document and vowed to work towards reconciliation. “Our Government
Businesses free to hire and exploit unpaid interns under Bill C-59, critics say
By Christopher Pearson Bill C-59 on implementing provisions of the government’s budget is causing alarm among advocates for interns’ rights, who claim that the new bill will make it easier for companies to hire unpaid interns, while leaving them exposed
Bill C-24 and the compromise of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms
By H.Grant Timms Already, and across a broad spectrum of political opinion, there has been condemnation for bill C-24, the Harper government’s “Strengthening of Canadian Citizenship Act”, which came into full force on June 11 after being given Royal Assent
Harper government dismantling democracy, rights coalition says
Abuse of parliamentary rules, the intimidation of public servants, the defunding and intimidation of organizations that hold views at odds with the government, and muzzling independent watchdogs are just some of Harper government’s alleged attempts at eroding democratic values in
Enforcing inequality: Harper Government creates two classes of Canadians
By Faizan Butt The federal government’s recent legislation, dubbed Bill-C24 came in to effect this week. The new law is already creating waves among legal scholars and civil rights proponents. But, the Harper government is no stranger to controversial legislation.
Carbon Free by 2100: Stephen Harper’s Non-Committal Commitment
By H. Grant Timms Most governments are exercises in contradiction between electoral platforms and performance, and often they try to convince people that the apparent contradiction isn’t one. Take, for example, the Harper government’s positioning on the military; they want
Metro newspaper handout workers left unpaid as Thinkbox National goes bankrupt
Bounced checks and application denials have left Metro newspaper handout workers without due compensation and without any proper recourse to claim for the unpaid wages. At the centre of this is Thinkbox National Marketing Inc., a company that president Emily
A rose, a class, a party by any other name
A View from the Bottom by H. Grant Timms Beginning in the 1990s a great number of political commentators extolled the great democratising potential of the Internet, took note of the blurring of ‘left’ and ‘right’ political distinctions, and joyfully
Employers facing criminal and labour law charges involving temporary foreign workers not on federal blacklist
Three Alberta businesses whose owners are facing criminal charges for human trafficking and labour law charges in a case involving seven temporary foreign workers have yet to be put on the federal government’s blacklist of employers who have broken the
Bill C-51 and the Conservative culture of contempt
By H. Grant Timms The debate on Bill C-51, distilled into its simplest form, seems to go something like this. On one side the government and its supporters, borrowing from the rhetoric of the American right, insists that there are
