Category Archives: Front Page
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
Warm climate in Europe may lead to abrupt cooling as Gulf Stream is disrupted
A warm climate in northern Europe can be hit by a sudden cooling leading to an Ice Age associated with an interruption of the North Atlantic Ocean circulation and the Gulf Stream, a new record of past climate change shows.
Bill C-51 incompatible with Canada’s commitment to constitutional supremacy and rule of law
Sukanya Pillay, General Counsel and Executive Director, Canadian Civil Liberties Association Bill C-51 creates new laws and amends existing laws to create new powers and crimes. One of these new laws is the security of Canada information sharing act, which
Rocco Galati vows to challenge C-51 in court, urges Canadians to vote against parties supporting the bill
Constitutional lawyer Rocco Galati vowed to challenge Harper government’s anti-terror legislation in court and called on Canadians to vote against candidates of any party supporting Bill C-51 at the next election. Speaking at rally against Bill C-51 in Toronto, Galati,
Bill C-51: Canada’s new McCarthy era where advocating for action against climate change is terrorism
John Bennett, Executive Director, Sierra Club of Canada First, I’d like to acknowledge the terrible incidents that took place last fall here in Ottawa and in Quebec and share our deepest sympathies for the families. We are very much aware
Canada unites in protest to stop “insidious, deceitful, and totalitarian” Bill C-51
Canadians from coast to coast are holding rallies in a bid to stop Bill C-51 calling Conservative government’s anti-terror legislation “insidious, deceitful, and totalitarian” The National Convergence event is happening Ottawa with a march parliament beginning from from the Canadian
