OPSEU Diablogue: Fraser got it wrong — StatsCan says little real difference...
Contrary to the much publicized Fraser Institute press releases accusing the public sector of abusing sick leave allowances, earlier today Statistics Canada issued a report suggesting there is in fact...
View ArticlePolitics and its Discontents: Reveling In Ignorance
It is perhaps the supreme irony of our age; for the first time in history we have access to a world of information and data literally at our fingertips; it is an era when profound ignorance should be...
View ArticleMontreal Simon: Is Stephen Harper Trying to Fiddle With the Disastrous Job...
I think it's safe to say that Statistics Canada's last job report was not well received in Stephen Harper's PMO.Because when you can only create 200 jobs in the whole of Canada in July, it is the Con...
View ArticleMontreal Simon: When the Cons Make the Poor Pay for Their Mistakes
It really couldn't be more disgusting or more Kafkaesque. Or more of a horror show.The Cons gut Statistic Canada. The battered agency screws up its job numbers.And now Jason Kenney is making the poor...
View ArticleMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Case of the Missing Job Numbers
OMG. All hail Great Merciful Leader !!! It seems that Statistics Canada has been saved from a horrible fate.After a long search, and a lot of heat, it has found the missing job numbers. The Canadian...
View ArticleBigCityLib Strikes Back: In An Information-Based Economy When You Provide...
From here. Original stats-can report is here.
View ArticleBigCityLib Strikes Back: Has Stats Canada Screwed Up job Numbers?
#ldnont has never had a month where 4000 people left the labour force. This month’s data? 5000 gone. It’s an error. @LFPress @KevinLabonte — Mike Moffatt (@MikePMoffatt) May 8, 2015 Same day we got new...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Fearless champion of the corporate overdog snarls at CCPA’s...
PHOTOS: Beggars and bazillionaires, not really as far apart as you think, the Fraser Institute insists. Top 100 Canadian corporate executives may not appear exactly as illustrated. Minimum wage...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: For the sake of a healthy democracy, Alberta Electoral...
PHOTOS: Dunvegan-Central Peace … where your vote counts for more than double! (Town of Fairview photo.) Below: Progress Alberta’s Duncan Kinney, NDP House Leader Brian Mason, Justice Myra Bielby of...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Guest Post: Five things you need to know about Alberta’s...
PHOTOS: A rural scene grabbed from the Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission’s website. Can you spot a rural voter? Remember, the driver of the car may actually be from Calgary. Below: Post author...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Silence on the right and in the media about NDP role as...
PHOTOS: Alberta Premier Rachel Notley, who is not getting any credit for her economic successes from the Opposition or the media. Below: Alberta Finance Minister Joe Ceci; Saskatchewan Premier Brad...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: ‘Blockbuster’ job creation in Alberta leaves UCP in search...
PHOTOS: The Calgary skyline in 2016. After a bad patch, the city is now back in the BMO Capital Markets’ Top Ten performance list, thanks
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Is rural crime actually getting worse in Alberta? What we...
PHOTOS: Unlike these guys, real RCMP officers cost money to train, pay and outfit. When he promised many more of them to rural Alberta, Jason
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Doomsayers, Chicken Littles and Conservatives get it wrong...
Now there’s a surprise! Ontario’s minimum wage increase behaved exactly as predicted by most mainstream economists. That is, the 21-per-cent wage increase implemented by the
View ArticleMontreal Simon: How The Con Hate Mongers Are Slowly Poisoning Canada
I've spend the last few days flying around all over the place, so it's great to be back home. And to make matters even better,
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Happy Valentine’s Day! Don’t worry, even with a fair...
Readers whose hearts are breaking at Restaurants Canada’s tale of woe supposedly caused by increases in the minimum wage and other calamities can take some Valentine’s Day comfort from the fact that...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Where’s the beef? Smells like what Restaurants Canada is...
Baloney: a large smoked, seasoned sausage made of various meats. Where’s the beef? In an opinion piece in the Calgary Herald last week, Restaurants Canada claimed that “a perfect storm of tax increases...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Where’s the crisis austerity is supposed to fix? Not...
In the decade between 2008 and last year, the number of civil servants in Alberta on a per capita basis fell by 5 per cent. In the same period, Alberta’s population grew by almost 20 per cent. I know,...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Canadian Taxpayers Federation commentary on nurse salaries...
Has anyone noticed how the propaganda produced by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation seems to be growing more inept of late? Misleading arguments and anti-union bias have long characterized many of the...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: It wasn’t supposed to be like this! Alberta sheds jobs...
In January, as the Globe and Mail put it in a colourful old-timey headline last week, Canada’s job market blew past the forecasts for the month. Unemployment also fell. In Alberta, not so much. Alberta...
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