http://www.sharenews.com/opinion/2010/08/25/labour-needs-step-employment-equity Posted by Editor on Wednesday, August 25th, 2010 in Front Page Opinion By AJAMU NANGWAYA There are two issues that are not really grounded in the current public discussion on the Conservative government’s proposed review of employment equity in the national civil service. The two matters are the question of race and structural racism and [...]

http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/Basil-Davidson-s-soul-cannot-rest-in–peace_7832155 PATRICK WILMOT Thursday, August 26, 2010 // After 95 years, the last of which were spent in the fog of unknowing, this great but simple man died in July. He trekked through the jungles with Mondlane, Machel, Cabral and Neto, and now he has joined them in that immortality of the spirit created [...]

I got this wrong first time round. Krugman commends Nick Rowe over at Worthwhile Canadian Initiative for his spirited views and writing on monetary policy.

The Canadian Medical Association (CMA) has recently released its 10th edition of the National Report Card on Health Care. At the top of the list of concerns among Canadians is the fear that the quality of health care in the country will decline as a result of increased strain on the health care system as the baby boom generation gets older.

Our friend Nick Rowe over at Worthwhile Canadian Initiative has attracted the formidable critical ire of Krugman - this is mainly for monetary policy wonks. I shall suspend my impulse to national solidarity.   For everyone else, Krugman is blogging like mad these days on the huge incipent danger of double dip and extended stagnation — and [...]

From August 23 to September 2, the UWSA and the University of Winnipeg are hosting the Spence Street Festival. Local student musicians will perform, student artists will showcase and sell their work, the community garden will be open and accessible to volunteers, and the Graffiti Art Gallery will be commissioned to create UWSA and U of W specific work on site and to facilitate participatory art demonstrations. Come to one or all of the fun events & activities throughout the week: August...

It was a bittersweet day yesterday in the fight against neoliberal globalization. Bjork is helping fight green energy privatization in Iceland while Canada supports global neoliberal resource rape. Prime Minister Harper is sending $130m of our money to AbitibiBowater after Newfoundland and Labrador premier Danny Williams nationalized their assets after the company threatened to bail [...]

Struggles span decades (This is the lead article from the September 2010 issue of the SFL Labour Reporter) What makes someone stand up for their rights? For the unemployed men 75 years ago, it was relief camps that offered no ‘relief’. No work, no wages, and little hope of turning around their own situation, the On to Ottawa Trekkers made their way across the country. It was an act borne of destitution, riding on the coattails of courage. The state resorted to using force to beat back the...

OTTAWA –A foreign takeover of the Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan would threaten potash mineworkers and their communities across the country, says the president of the union representing about 3,000 potash workers, including 800 miners, production and construction workers at PCS. “As a branch plant of multinational giant such as BPH, all rules for civilized negotiations to keep jobs and investment in Canada would be off the table,” says Communications, Energy and Paperworkers President Dave...

Today the Canadian Labour Congress Ontario summer school kicked off. Many important course’s are underway to build and renew the labour movement in Canada. The participates have come from all around the province and are settled in to the Family Educational center in Port Elgin. I have the great opportunity to deliver a course in [...]

Prof.  Myron Gordon was an economist, a long-time member of faculty at the Rotman School of business at the U of T, and a founding member of the Progressive Economics Forum.  Sadly he passed away in Toronto on July 5 of this year. My Gordon was very influential with me, and I know with many other independent-minded economists [...]

“This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.” – T.S. Eliot An Apocalyptical Cliché Large swaths of Pakistan are in ruins. The same is still true of Haiti, to say nothing of the long-standing devastation [...]

It’s time to respin the National Post. So much so, that I’ve signed up for their 90-day free trial subscription. Mainly, I’m looking to get a stack of newsprint for lining our garden this fall for next spring. And it’s not just because the CanWest zombie has rebranded itself as PostMedia [whatever they intend that [...]

Following the winds of changeBy JOHN HARRINGTON, Independent Record | Posted: Sunday, August 22, 2010 12:05 am Within weeks a 60-foot tower that could support an electricity-generating wind turbine will be built in the Helena Valley. But there are no plans to put blades on the tower, no plans to connect it to the electrical grid and start harnessing some of the valley’s renewable resource. Instead, the tower will be placed at the Stan I. Dupree Lineman Training Center off Canyon Ferry Road and...

One million. No, it’s not the number of posts that Armine has written about the census. (I count only 32.) A million is the number of times this blog has been viewed since Marc started it back in the summer of 2006. It has been an eventful few years in Canadian economics: the commodity “super cycle,” [...]

Paul Krugman agrees with my view that the bond market is signaling  long term economic stagnation rather than experiencing a bubble - and he is, of course, far more influential and cogent than I. “But the argument has become even stranger recently, as it has become clear that investors aren’t worried about deficits; they’re worried about [...]

Former premier Bill Vander Zalm's 700,000-signature petition against British Columbia's HST will be allowed to proceed, a provincial Supreme Court justice ruled Friday in Vancouver. Chief Justice Robert Bauman said in his decision that Premier Gordon Campbell himself called the petition against the harmonized sales tax a success for democracy and it would rob petitioners of the fruits of that victory to deny them the right to proceed. Following the decision, Vander Zalm was ecstatic when...

Recently the BCMEA has been contacting casuals at home, directly, and advising them of work opportunities while dishonestly showing “Local 502” on call display.  This issue was brought before an arbitrator and some of the rulings outlined in job arbitrator R. Keras’ decision in the summary disposition 2010-03 are as follows: “The despatching ‘in effect’ [...]