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Think the Quebec student strikes aren’t about you?

04/10/2015 by the editor Leave a Comment

By Alison@Creekside A one minute time lapse of the start, last week, of the student strike against austerity in Montreal: Austerity — that’s when your government impoverishes its citizens by decimating public services like education and health in order to balance its lining of corporate pockets with tax breaks. “Our services are worth more than your profits” is the slogan […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: 2015 Quebec student strike, austerity, BIll C-51, business, Canada, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Conservatives, corporations, education, health, law, Montreal, Quebec, Temporary Foreign Workers Program

Get rich quick, or else

11/12/2014 by the editor Leave a Comment

By Alison@Creekside Between September 2008 and August 2010, Scotiabank received a $25 billion bailout amounting to 100% of the bank’s value – or as Steve and Jim preferred to call it at the time: “liquidity support” ***. Last year Scotiabank made a record $6.7 billion in net profit and CEO and president Brian Porter netted a […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Bank of Canada, banks, Canada, Chris Alexander, economy, jobs, Scotiabank, Stephen Poloz, Temporary Foreign Workers Program, unemployment, youth

Cons drop cover charge for foreign musicians

06/30/2014 by the editor Leave a Comment

By Frank Moher We’re kind of hard on the Conservative government around here, so when it does something right, it’s only fair we note it. You might want to print out and laminate this post for safekeeping as we’re not likely to do this again anytime soon. The government has dumped the fees it was […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books Tagged With: Andrew Cash, arts cuts, arts funding, Canada, Canada Council, CBC, Chris Alexander, Conservatives, James Moore, music, National Film Board, NDP, Shelly Glover, Telefilm Canada, Temporary Foreign Workers Program

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

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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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