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Will the CRA hunt the hunters?

10/20/2014 by the editor 1 Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Canada, Canada Revenue Agency, Conservatives, Dept of Justice and Public Safety, Employment and Social Development Canada, Environment Canada, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, gun registry, Jason Kenney, Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters, Robert Sopuck, Stephen Harper, Transport Canada

Hong Kong: Whose side is Canada on?

10/02/2014 by the editor Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Canada, Canada-China Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement, China, Hong Kong, Jason Kenney, John Baird, Stephen Harper, Umbrella Revolution

Behind Steve’s Nobel nomination

09/02/2014 by the editor Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: anti-Semitism, B'Nai Brith, Canada, Canada Christian College, Canadian Alliance, Charles McVety, Conservatives, Frank Dimant, fundamentalism, Gaza, Israel, Jason Kenney, Reform Party, religion, Stephen Harper, Stockwell Day, The Jewish Tribune, United Nations

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

Your guide to the Economic Action Scam

05/18/2014 by the editor Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Canada, Canadian economy, Conservatives, economy, Jason Kenney, Stephen Harper, unemployment

Leaked docs throw new light on Fair Elections Act

02/17/2014 by the editor Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: "Fair Elections Act", Canada, Canadian politics, Conservatives, Dimitri Soudas, Eve Adams, Facebook, Guy Giorno, James Moore, Jason Kenney, Justin Trudeau, Laureen Harper, Liberals, Maclean's, Manning Centre, Michael Sona, Peter MacKay, Shelly Glover, social media, Toronto Star

The Conservatives’ invented reality

06/28/2013 by backofthebook.ca 1 Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Bev Oda, Calgary, Canada, Canadian International Development Agency, Conservatives, F-35, First Nations, G20, G8, Jason Kenney, Justin Trudeau, Peter MacKay, PMO, robocall scandal, robocalls, Stephen Harper, Sun News Network, Tony Clement

Outsource your Royal Bank account

04/09/2013 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: business, Canada, India, Jason Kenney, money, Royal Bank of Canada

Robocalls: So where were we?

12/13/2012 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: 2011 election, Andrew Gill, Canada, Canadian politics, Conservatives, Dean Del Mastro, Elections Canada, Jason Kenney, Joe Volpe, Liberals, Rick Dykstra, robocall scandal, robocalls, U.S.

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