Regional Politics Archives - Page 29 of 35

Quebec Seeks Exemption from Temporary Foreign Worker Ban

Temporary foreign serviceGerry Lauzon This Monday, Kathleen Weil—The Minister of Immigration, Diversity, and Inclusiveness—met with her Federal counterpart to ask if Quebec can take a rain-check o...

A Protest in Toronto Against the Tar Sands and Line 9: Seriously!

Torontonians Protest Line 9 on May 10th, 2014 Gray Jacket I almost didn’t go—I did a gut-check just before walking down the stairs to unlock my bike. I thought there was no way more than a handfu...

The Parti Quebecois’ super-secretive post-mortem of secrecy

God Save Pauline Karen Arnold The great beast that is the Parti Quebecois doesn’t die easy. Even though their monumental defeat in last month’s provincial election was heralded as a death blow to ...

Hudak’s Million (+100 000) Jobs Plan in the Ontario Election

Tim Hudak, the leader of the Progressive Conservative Party running in the Ontario election, has promised to create one million jobs as part of his platform. One million isn’t a particularly big number. To put ...

Rob Ford Still Missing, Will Be Back For Election: “Rehab is Amazing”

Rehab? Or...somewhere else? The Learning Company | The Hollywood Reporter | Shaun Merritt | X-Weinzar Rob Ford claims he has gone to rehab, and we don't doubt him, but he has also vanished off th...

Hudak’s War on Canadian Video Production

The Canadian Press Today, it was revealed that the Ontario Progressive Conservatives used Russian stock media in their campaign videos and posters. In a time where our Condemner-in-Chief has repea...

Temporary Foreign Workers “Paused” in Alberta After McDonalds Mistreatment

Ah, nothing like the salty, fatty taste of abused foreign workers Ottawa Business Journal Following accusations that temporary foreign workers at several McDonalds in Western Canada hav...

Ontario Election Outlook: Pessimism

Ontarians, I’d say that we were in the deep end again, but that doesn’t quite cut it. We’re in a deep end with our arms chopped off, our legs tied together, and we have salt in one of eyes. In other words, w...

Andrea Horwath’s Big Move in Ontario

Andrea Horwath's Ontario New Democrats have denied the government their confidence, and, with that, set the wheels in motion for an election on June 12th. Despite living in a small corner at Queen’...

Rob Ford is taking a moment to step back. Should we do the same?

The Ford phenomenon is unending. Francis Mariani | | News has just broken that Rob Ford is “ready to take a break” from his election campaign to focus on addressing his issues with substance abuse. ...