By TJ Dawe Hockey season is upon us. The tellers in my bank wear game day jerseys. People refer to their team in the possessive — “we” — despite the fact that the only contribution individuals make is to buy sufficient gear and tickets to enrich the owners sufficiently to pay the salaries of better […]
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RCMP SWAT the Elsipogtog
By Alison@Creekside What was the point of this exactly? Sending in snipers in camo with dogs to crawl through the grass towards a group of unarmed people blockading a road because they fear the wholly-owned Canadian subsidiary of a Houston, Texas exploration company is setting up to frack their land. Oddly enough, Canadian law supports the […]
CSEC and Brazil: “Whose interests are being served”?
By Alison@Creekside Amusing to see both NaPo and the G&M hosting remarks from former CSIS deputy director Ray Boisvert dismissing the recent Snowden/Greenwald docs which revealed CSEC spied on Brazil’s Mines and Energy Ministry. Snowden was present at the Five Eyes conference where the CSEC presentation on their Olympia spying program on Brazil took place. Boisvert in both papers: […]
Not much media behind Postmedia’s paywalls
By Frank Moher As suddenly as the Berlin Wall fell, paywalls went up today across the Postmedia “content network,” or whatever we call what we used to call “newspaper chains.” Steve Ladurantaye, media reporter for the competing Globe, broke the news to a non-waiting nation by posting the death notice internal memo on his personal website. […]
Lang: Indian workers are just better
By Alison@Creekside “Information technology workers displaced in Canada are being replaced not by cheap Indian workers but by better ones.” So says CBC’s Amanda Lang, senior business correspondent for CBC News and good cop to Kevin O’Leary’s bad cop on “The Lang and O’Leary Exchange,” in yesterday’s Globe and Mail. She wonders if Canadians have returned to […]
Outsource your Royal Bank account
By Alison@Creekside Royal Bank of Canada Chief Human Resources Officer Zabeen Hirji explains above that technically it’s not RBC that has hired temporary foreign workers to replace RBC employees. No, rather it’s that RBC has hired Indian offshore outsourcing company iGATE to do their own hiring as part of RBC’s plan to transition RBC IT […]
RIM’s — er, Blackberry’s — PR win
By Mark Evans While the new and much-anticipated BlackBerry 10 has finally launched, there’s another story that I think is as compelling: the public relations campaign that has happened over the past six months that let RIM arrive at yesterday’s launch with the wind in its sails. The PR work has been an impressive performance […]
Artists for the rainforest — and reality
By Rachelle Stein-Wotten Art is at the forefront of a raging energy debate in Canada. Enbridge’s Northern Gateway Pipeline – you know, the one that would travel 1,000 kilometres from Alberta to British Columbia’s coast, delivering oil to be pumped into tankers taller than monuments, destination: Asia — has created a small boom in art-not-just-for-art’s […]
Nexen: China nationalizes Canada’s oil sands
By David@Sixthestate.net Well, try that on for size. Let me be clear, says Stephen Harper: “Canadians have not spent years reducing the ownership of sectors of the economy by our own governments, only to see them bought and controlled by foreign governments instead. It is not an outcome any responsible government of Canada could ever […]
Canadian tech needs more brash, less nice
By Mark Evans Canadians are, by and large, nice and polite. Unfortunately, we’ve made this approach part of our business and entrepreneurial landscape as well. While we may be confident, we’re not bold, cocky or aggressive. South of the border, entrepreneurs are a different breed. They truly believe they’re the best, the smartest, pioneers and […]
