Category Archives: Front Page
Why bomb Syria when Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya taught us bombs don’t bring democracy
By Don Davies NDP MP for Vancouver Kingsway, BC The old adage that those who do not pay attention to history are doomed to repeat it, I think, is time-tested and true. I will review what has been the experience
TFW program allows employers to target vulnerable women for sexual abuse and violence
By Fay Faraday, Lawyer, Visiting Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School For the last 25 years I have been working with low-wage migrant workers across all the different streams of temporary labour migration: the seasonal agricultural worker program, the live-in caregiver
Aligning with Bush’s axis of evil and violating international law is no laughing matter
By Thomas Mulcair, Leader of the Official Opposition Again today we are debating the Prime Minister’s military adventures. The Prime Minister is again preparing to ask our brave troops to risk their lives overseas. This issue has come before the
Bill C-51 and the Charter: What the father giveth, the son giveth away
By Michael Nabert Don’t get me wrong, I understand the cynical reason why Justin Trudeau hasn’t come out harshly against this hideous bill to eviscerate Canadian rights and turn us into a police state. Hoping to draw more voters from
Raising retirement age leads to inequality
Raising the age of eligibility for the Old Age Security pension and the Guaranteed Income Supplement will increase inequalities between older people, according to new research coming out of Montreal. “This change will force retired people into greater dependence on
John Baird gets job with mining giant that got government subsidies when he was a minister
John Baird, who resigned last month as Minister of Foreign Affairs, has landed a job as an advisor with Barrick Gold, a corporation that received subsidies for its mining operations from the government during the time Baird was in the
Oil price drop: the windfall and the fallout
By Dr. James Stanford, Unifor Economist A decline in oil prices by half is a major shock for the Canadian macroeconomy. In my judgment—and I actually worked, in another life, as an energy economist for a few years before I
Only a fifth of Alberta businesses plan to hire Canadians after TFW permits expire
Only a little over a fifth of all Alberta businesses that use temporary foreign worker plan to hire Canadians once the TFW permits expire, according to a new survey. The government’s new “4 and 4” rule, which requires foreign nationals
Niqab is none of my business, two thirds of Canadians say
Even though the majority of Canadians feel uncomfortable around women wearing the niqab, nearly two thirds of Canadians believe that whether a woman wears a niqab is none of their business as it is a matter of personal choice, according
Tories cut and paste “we reject the argument that every time we talk about security our freedoms are threatened”
“We reject the argument that every time we talk about security, our freedoms are threatened. We reject the arguments that every time we talk about our security, our freedoms are threatened. Canadians understand that freedoms and security go hand in
