Canadian Business
Quebec unions at work
You may have come here by googling “why are unions bad?” If a private company was contracted for snow removal, they certainly wouldn’t be wasting labour costs l
Archive: 2011
97 posts from 2011.
News making
LPC blogger issue unresolved
Late last week, I wrote about an email received by Dr. Roy regarding his interest in covering the upcoming Liberal convention as a blogger. He received a respon
News making
LPC won’t accredit bloggers at convention
I’ve learned the news today that the Liberal Party of Canada will host the first modern political convention that doesn’t accredit bloggers. Our friend Dr. Roy
CBC
CBC fights the culture war
What’s this? A CBC story about huge guns, a baby, and Santa? From Scottsdale Arizona? What is the relevance? Oh, those Americans and their guns. “Is it appropri
Climate and Environment
Canada out of the Kyoto Protocol
Was Canada ever even in? The Kyoto Protocol was adopted in 1997 in the city of the same name in Japan. The United States was the only holdout at the time, with
Canadian Media
Just another day in Ottawa…
So, this tweet stream caught my attention yesterday, [quotetweet tweetid=139742792263016448] [quotetweet tweetid=139744432890195970] (5 minutes later, Coderre r
New Democratic Party of Canada
Vacated prime real estate in Ottawa!
Paulina Ayala is the NDP Member of Parliament for Honoré-Mercier in Quebec. She was elected on May 2nd in the Orange Crush that saw the NDP take most of the sea
Parliament of Canada
Occupy Eviction Day
Occupiers in Toronto and Ottawa stand to be evicted from their tents today as St. James Church and Ottawa’s National Capital Commission have issued trespassing
Foreign Affairs and Defence
Syria now on UN human rights committee
Maariv via The Weekly Standard, A short time after UNESCO, the UN’s organization for education and science, accepted the Palestinian Authority as a full member