Weekly Recap Archives - Page 46 of 79

Alberta Adds 82,000 Jobs, Canada Loses 9,500

Let me tell you about a magical place where the rate of unemployment is 4.9%. The unemployment rate is so low that business owners need to import workers from overseas to work unskilled jobs for above minimum w...

CCLA: Most Detained Canadians Are Innocent, Awaiting Trial

Apparently our law enforcers have been doing an exceptionally thorough job of protecting Canadians from the frighteningly dangerous threat of people who might have committed a non-violent offence maybe (but mos...

New Brunswick Legislature to Return For One Day For Pension Amendments

In a world strongly divided along party lines, it seems that one group is capable of uniting our leaders: old blue-collared retirees, specifically ones who used to work in a paper mill in Edmunston, New Brunswi...

Poll Shows Rob Ford Within Range of Victory?

A new poll by Forum Research out this morning shows Olivia Chow's support cratering, and Ford's...not really doing any better, but he's now statistically tied with Chow and Tory. Well, at least Rob Ford's in a ...

4 BC Events That Weren’t Archived, So We’ll Never Know About Them

The years of 2004 to 2014 will be forever remembered as a time in British Columbia when nothing happened. The wind may have blown, the snow may have fallen, but in terms of human civic history, not a peep was h...

When Not to Travel: Israel Under Travel Advisory

We've all seen it. You're waiting around a luggage carousel after a five hour flight. You're exhausted, sweaty, and aggravated. The flight attendant was rude, the plane was cramped, and the flight took off 2 ho...

The CRA Audits PEN Canada For “Political-Activities” AKA Harper-Hating

Yesterday morning, the Canadian Revenue Agency launched their political-activities audit of PEN Canada, a small charity dedicated to promoting freedom of speech, and you don't need to audit the CRA to figure ou...

It works so well, but it's still so disturbing

Elizabeth May Enlists NDP And Grits For Co-Operation To No Avail

They say you’ll never get what you want if you don't ask for it, but with Elizabeth May's new strategy to pick up seats in the next election, no one's even calling her back. This past weekend was the Green P...

Aboriginal Leaders Give Vancouver An Eviction Notice

When it comes to First Nations politics, Vancouver wants to have its cake and eat it too. There's a pattern here of two-faced policy that's got local Aboriginal leaders ready to evict the city of Vancouver off ...

Twitter Accounts Monitor Government Editing Wikipedia

A few clever programmers have done more for governmental transparency than most politicians have. There are now Twitter accounts in tons of countries that automatically tweet when someone from a government IP a...