Fellow Canadians, please join me in signing Petition e-800 (link is to Parliament petition website). This petition is to remove a regulation which would prevent Canada from considering refugee applicants refused by the USA. Until recently, this regulation was useful in preventing abuse of the refugee applicant system, but the current US President ( Read more... )

Those of you in the USA, I'd like to encourage you to express your support for a proposed update to the minimum wage and overtime rules which raises the exemption threshold. Industry groups are mobilizing to oppose this change, which would protect low-wage employees from being required to work unpaid overtime.

In (faint?) hopes of getting a bit of discussion ( Read more... )

This article illustrates core problems with corporate personhood pretty well.

"Christian" doesn't mean what the far-right fundamentalist capitalists say it does. Susan B. Thistlethwaite explains why in a short and straightforward article. It's not news, but it bears repeating.

A newly-former Republican staffer lays out what he sees as wrong with the Republicans--and Democrats--today.

Argentina and Iceland have shown that economies don't have to work the way Big Capital tells us they do. They shrugged off their financial burdens, and returned to the real source of wealth: their people. Will the rest of the world follow suit, and if so, how and when?

I'm not fully on the NDP bus... but there went a courageous, committed politician. All of Canada feels his loss.

Maybe this should have been read, understood, and acted upon.

Crowd Psychology & Public Order Policing: An Overview of Scientific Theory and Evidence. (Dr. Clifford Stott, University of Liverpool)

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