Atlantic Premiers are all riled up about changes to Employment Insurance, again. Seasonal, resource-based jobs cannot survive without EI supporting workers through the off-season. These industries, the Premiers contend, are vital to Canada, and, thus, it is worth it to… Continue Reading
So, for those of you who missed it, after Justin Trudeau (son of the late, venerated Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau) became leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, the Tories – being the Tories – went on the attack with… Continue Reading
The Conservative government has introduced some controversial changes to the Employment Insurance program. The changes include ‘encouraging’ recipients to take jobs that are either outside of their field, at a significantly lower pay rate or further away from your home. Frank… Continue Reading
Here’s a new ad by the National Citizens Coalition aimed at the Conservative governments spending: Hat tip: Stephen Taylor (who works for the NCC and runs the aggregator Blogging Tories).
As any recovery conservative will tell you, today’s Conservative Party of Canada bears little resemblance to the conservativism of the past (or even the current conservative rhetoric). National Post‘s Andrew Coyne offers a nice overview of how the Tories have… Continue Reading
There’s a bit of a scandal brewing up here. The Ottawa Citizen‘s Glen McGregor and Stephen Maher broke the story that the servers of a call centre with ties to the Conservative Party were used for misleading and potentially illegal robocalls… Continue Reading
For quite some time, it has been a standard policy of the Canadian government (stretching back before the current government) to intervene on behalf of any Canadian sentenced to death in a foreign land. For one person, though, the government’s… Continue Reading
It’s the death penalty, but DIY style! From The Globe and Mail: “Each assassin should have the right to a rope in his cell to make a decision about his or her life,” senator Pierre-Hugues Boisvenu told reporters ahead of… Continue Reading
With increased deficits and other fiscal demands, the Canadian government is ready to make some serious changes to the Canada Pension Plan. One potential change that has been floated is to raise the age of eligibility from the current 65.… Continue Reading
As you may know, pipelines are pretty big news in Canada right now. Not only were there plans, now scuttled, to build a pipeline going south, but there are still plans to build a pipeline going to the west coast,… Continue Reading