What students are talking about today (October 25th edition)
Supreme Court, Halloween costumes, & UBC "dimes"
View ArticleWhat students are talking about today (October 30th edition)
Drake graduates, Sandy kills, & good news for graduates
View ArticleCanada, U.S. sign visa info sharing agreement
Info on those who want to visit, study or work in Canada could be shared
View ArticleRyan Lochte, gay at West Point, Irish Studies & Black History
What students are talking about today (February 6th)
View Article‘Israel Apartheid,’ Oberlin College & pro-gay Carly Rae
What students are talking about today (March 5th)
View ArticleToo pink for pride, protests in Waterloo & a bar mitzvah
What students are talking about today (March 15th)
View ArticleProvinces hostile to Canada Job Grant
Kenney: training funds can't go to "habitual welfare recipients"
View ArticleOntario still not happy with Canada Job Grant
Feds and provinces debate job training funds
View ArticleProvinces still won’t accept Canada Jobs Grant
Feds wants training funds tied to specific individuals
View ArticleWhy the so-called Canada Job Grant isn’t working
Provinces say youth, new immigrants would lose funding
View ArticleFederal funding to help skilled newcomers land jobs
Liberals criticize training through career colleges
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Remembering a massacre in Iran
This afternoon in the House of Commons, MPs will vote on a motion to condemn the massacre of some 5,000 political prisoners by the Iranian government in the summer of 1988 as a crime against humanity,...
View ArticleIf the government can’t use a private member’s bill to create a new law, the...
The citizenship and immigration committee is presently tied up with an NDP filibuster of C-425. The bill, in its original form, was tabled by Conservative MP Devinder Shory to “reduce by one year the...
View ArticleThe end
The last two rounds of Question Period this morning, in which Elizabeth May suggests that denigrating one’s rivals in response to questions about one’s own failings is a philosophically flawed and...
View ArticleClimate change and the Alberta flood
President Barack Obama will outline new policies on greenhouse gas emissions tomorrow. Keystone XL apparently won’t be mentioned, but it is part of the subtext. And given the Harper government’s...
View ArticleJason Kenney’s speech to Islamic Society of North America removed from...
Liberal Party leader Justin Trudeau has received sharp criticism for speaking last week to the Islamic Society of North America, an organization the secular Muslim Canadian Congress describes as...
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Premiers vs. PM on job training
Aaron Lynett/CP If the term “open federalism” rings only a faint bell, don’t be too hard on yourself. It was briefly a key catch phrase during Stephen Harper’s early months as Prime Minister back in...
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Debating the Canada Job Grant debate
Aaron Lynett/CP John Geddes (Ottawa bureau chief) and Econowatch bloggers Erica Alini and Stephen Gordon discuss the debate around the Canada Jobs Grant. John Geddes: Among the innovations he’s...
View ArticleKenney, Mulcair, Trudeau, Paille and May on Quebec’s charter of values
If nothing else, Pauline Marois’ charter of values does give us an opportunity to clarify our desire for a free, open and inclusive society. So far, Thomas Mulcair has delivered a statement in which he...
View ArticleHow Kenney, Mulcair and Trudeau took on Quebec’s charter of values
Reporting on Jason Kenney’s announcement today that the federal government might challenge Quebec’s so-called charter of values in court, the Canadian Press noted that the employment minister, who is...
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