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Harperism, from Hayek to Koch and Coyne

10/07/2014 by the editor Leave a Comment

By Alison@Creekside Neo-liberalism: trickle-down, deregulating, deunionizing, globalizing free market privatization of government. When Stephen Harper was studying under the “Calgary school” in the 80’s, he became so enamored with the neo-liberalism of Austrian philosopher Friedrich von Hayek — guru to Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, the Chicago boys, the IMF, and the WTO — it formed the basis […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books Tagged With: Andrew Coyne, Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, Aurea Foundation, Barrick Gold, books, Brian Lee Crowley, Calgary School of Public Policy, Canada, Charles Koch, conservatism, Conservatives, Donald Gutstein, economics, Fraser Institute, Frontier Centre for Public Policy, International Monetary Fund, Jim Flaherty, Kenneth Whyte, labour, Macdonald-Laurier Institute, Manning Centre for Democracy, Margaret Thatcher, Martha Hall Findlay, Michael Walker, Michel Kelly Gagnon, Mont Pelerin Society, Montreal Economic Institute, neoconservatism, neoliberalism, Nigel Wright, Peter Holle, Peter Munk, Ronald Reagan, Stephen Harper, Trans Pacific Partnership, unions, World Trade Organization

United we watch

09/02/2014 by the editor Leave a Comment

By Rod Mickleburgh My mother hated Labour Day. For her, a high school English teacher, it was not only a day to pay tribute to workers and unions, but a signal that the lazy, hazy days of summer were over, and it was time to go back to work. Every year, the prospect of facing […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books Tagged With: British Columbia, Canada, education, film, labour, movies, unions

Kenney’s new “Labour Minister Missing in Action” program

06/23/2014 by the editor 1 Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Alberta, Canada, Employment and Social Development Canada, Enbridge Pipeline, globalism, Jason Kenney, labour, Northern Gateway Pipeline, oil sands, Phillipines, Stephen Harper, tar sands, Temporary Foreign Workers Program, work

Serving up labour

06/01/2014 by the editor Leave a Comment

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, […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: business, Canada, Conservatives, Jason Kenney, labour, restaurants, Temporary Foreign Workers Program

Solidarity whatever

12/10/2013 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Rod Mickleburgh These are strange days, indeed, for public sector unions. Big developments, not always happy ones, are everywhere. Yet the dearth of labour reporters and collective yawns from editors and the public alike have combined to obscure groundbreaking events that would have dominated front pages not so long ago, when unions were considered […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Alberta, Alison Redford, British Columbia, business, Canada, Christy Clark, Conservatives, labour, Tony Clement, unions

Farewell, Big Jack

12/06/2013 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Rod Mickleburgh I talked with Big Jack Munro a few days before he died in November. It was pretty tough going. The big booming voice that had bellowed from the podiums of hundreds of meetings was down to a whisper. His legendary fire was just about spent. But some things had not changed. His […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: British Columbia, business, Canada, labour, unions

Life In Canada’s Small Government Dystopia

06/30/2012 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By David@Sixthestate.net The following post is deliberately alarmist. Orwellian, you might say. I’m not trying to paint a picture of what things are like in Canada right now, or even what I think they’ll be like in the near future. I’m not an idiot. But I do want to paint a picture of the sort […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: access-to-information, Bill C-38, Bill C-43, Bruce Carson, Canada, Canadian Border Services Agency, Canadian politics, CBC, censorship, Charter of Rights, Conservatives, Constituent Management Information System, Constitution of Canada, crime, CSIS, Elections Canada, Employment Insurance, environment, First Nations, free speech, government surveillance, hacking, Harper, immigration, Jason Kenney, John Baird, Kevin Page, labour, Liberals, National Roundtable on the Environment, NDP, Parks Canada, parliament, public service, Radio-Canada, RCMP, robocall scandal, robocalls, Statistics Canada, unions, Vic Toews

Put to bed: The strike that broke the news at The Calgary Herald

02/03/2012 by backofthebook.ca 2 Comments

The Calgary Herald told its striking workers they were about to “jump off a cliff.” By the end, the Herald had gone over the edge, too ~~ Excerpted from Leaving Dublin: Writing My Way From Dublin to Canada, by kind permission of Rocky Mountain Books By Brian Brennan I never envisaged it would end the […]

Filed Under: Put to bed: The strike that broke the news at The Calgary Herald Tagged With: Alberta, books, business, Calgary, Calgary Herald, Canada, Conrad Black, Hollinger, journalism, labour, newspapers, Southam, unions

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Fort McMurray: Shopping time!

By Brady Tighe We’re now officially in the aftermath phase of the northern Alberta wildfire crisis. The fire is long gone, and everyone with a home to return to is back in its … [Read More...]

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Electoral reform: Hashtag fresh thinking

By Alison@Creekside The most interesting and innovative idea to come out of the first meeting of the all-party Special Committee on Electoral Reform, or ERRE, was Nathan Cullen's suggestion, … [Read More...]

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The Trudeau gush fest is getting old

By Jim Henshaw There have been several bewildered as well as angry accounts coming out of the USA lately about how little media time has been spent covering the Democratic Presidential Primary … [Read More...]

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My friend, Rick, at the Pride Parade

By Frank Moher On this dreadful day, I don't want to write about the shootings in Orlando. I want to write about my friend, Rick. Rick lives just outside of Nanaimo, a city of about 80,000, … [Read More...]

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Triumph of the drama nerds

By Frank Moher Two drama nerds have recently moved into high profile positions. Before I name them (or perhaps you’ve already guessed who they are; or perhaps you’d like to scroll down and look at … [Read More...]

From “Our Rape Blog”: Shooting the Moon

Originally published on Our Rape Blog, the author's account of the aftermath of a violent sexual assault. By Mary Fraughton Have you ever played Hearts? It’s a card game. For our purposes, … [Read More...]

First Nations defending Lelu Island

The video: Lelu Island: “They will come.”

From Creekside: The B.C. provincial government is trying to green light the construction of a massive LNG terminal on Lelu Island in the Skeena Estuary -- Pacific Northwest LNG, backed by Malaysian … [Read More...]

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