By Alison@Creekside The Canada Con Revenue Agency is bothering birdwatchers now. The Kitchener-Waterloo Field Naturalists pictured at left (membership 300, annual revenues $16,000) got a stern letter from the CRA just after they sent a letter to two federal cabinet ministers complaining about government-approved neonicotinoid insecticides that damage bee colonies. CBC: “The stern missive says the group must take appropriate […]
Hong Kong: Whose side is Canada on?
By Montreal Simon It’s an amazing sight, thousands of young pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong, defying the old guard in Beijing. Daring to lecture them on the limits of power, in their own backyard. In the shadow of Tiananmen. The young members of the Umbrella Revolution, lighting up the darkness with their cell phones… And […]
Behind Steve’s Nobel nomination
By Alison@Creekside Not content with awarding Stephen Harper their Gold Medallion human rights award and pledging to create a Stephen Harper Centre for Human Rights, B’nai Brith Canada announced on Friday that they will nominate him for the Nobel Peace Prize. From their statement: Moral clarity has been lost across much of the world, with terror, hatred and […]
Kenney’s new “Labour Minister Missing in Action” program
By Alison@Creekside This week Employment Minister Jason Kenney replaced the old LMOA, Labour Market Opinion Assessment, with the brand new LMIA, or Labour Market Impact Assessment — henceforth to be known as the LabourMinister Missing in Action program for its accelerated 10-working-day approval process to put TFWs in skilled trades. Remember those 270 unionized welders and pipefitters laid off from a Husky […]
Serving up labour
By Alison@Creekside Evan Solomon asks why restaurants don’t just raise wages to attract workers: “This is the criticism — raise the wages and they will come.” Garth Whyte of Restaurants Canada: “So let’s raise it to $100 an hour — we’ll still need them [temporary foreign workers]. That’s the issue, we have, uh, you know, people, […]
Your guide to the Economic Action Scam
By Alison@Creekside I’ll bet you’ve already guessed what Step #2 is — replying to the Canadian applicants. Here’s how the rest of Steve’s Economic Action Scam works: Vastly inflate the stats for supposed job vacancies and skill shortages in Canada by basing them on a program that counts online classified ads, including one on eBay that features […]
Leaked docs throw new light on Fair Elections Act
By Alison@Creekside Last week, the Star published a half dozen articles based on secret memos and a 70-page slide show about the Cons’ 2015 election war room strategies, anonymously leaked to them, and as presented to the Conservative National Council (above) by Harper’s former dcomm and now executive director of the CPC, Dimitri Soudas: “Everything we do […]
The Conservatives’ invented reality
By Alison@Creekside Fakers. Fake F-35 mock up cockpit from Lockheed Martin for DefMin Peter Airshow MacKay to hold $47,000 presser in to announce purchase of 65 Lockheed Martin stealth fighters in 2010. Fake citizenship ceremony in which half of the participants were actually Citizenship and Immigration Canada staff passed off as new […]
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 […]
Robocalls: So where were we?
By Alison@Creekside Three days before polls opened in the last federal election, Elections Canada officials were using the word “scam” to describe election irregularities, making this statement from the EC commish, throwing in the towel two weeks after the election even before any investigation had begun, all the more astonishing: Commissioner of Canada Elections May 16, 2011 […]
