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October 31.2011
Here is the preamble given on the website of the Occupy Wall Street gazette Occupy Wall Street is leaderless resistance movement with people of many colors, genders and political persuasions. The one thing we all have in common is that We Are The 99% that will no longer tolerate the greed ...
In Dubious Battle: The Air Canada Strike
October 21.2011
His utmost power with adverse power opposed In dubious battle on the plains of Heaven And shook his throne. -John Milton, Paradise Lost As it stands, the 6,800 flight attendants at Air Canada are not going to engage in a work stoppage and in the process have averted grounding Air Canada’s 87671 daily ...
The Decline and Fall of Rob Ford
September 26.2011
It is a difficult time for those in authority. The cuts to funding for many of Toronto’s Core Services have been derailed by those in the wet hovels of ‘Ford Nation' who have made known their extreme dissatisfaction for what the Mayor is doing. Rob Ford coaxed voters with tax cuts and ...
Winehoused: Death of a Blueswoman
July 29.2011
Much can be gathered about an individual, however complex they may be, by their taste in music. My dad, as a case in point, never let his emotions show and for that reason liked only the most rugged blues rock. Racists usually think hip-hop is the sound only a sub-human would ...
Toronto’s Ford and the Understaffing Crisis
July 22.2011
A few weeks ago, our compulsively kickable mayor refused two public health nurses that would be subsidized by the provincial government on account of the untruth that ‘we have enough people in public health right now’. This thoroughly phony statement is contradicted by the fact that Ontario has the 2nd worst ...
Discredited: Canada’s real problem with debt
July 11.2011
Your overstuffed mailbox or perhaps your e-mail bin is undoubtedly occupied by bills you just can’t shake: Canada on the whole shares your pain. Every major newspaper and every one of Canada’s six major banks has wrote worryingly about the amount of debt every Canadian has on their own personal balance ...
