Poverty Important to Canadians
While our neo-con governments would have us believe that all Canadians feel as they do that poverty is but a moral failing it turns out that “The vast majority of Canadians want the federal and provincial governments to lead a war on poverty, including raising minimum wages and creating more low-cost... Read this post...
2008 Blog Action Day: Poverty
With last night’s election results revealing another NeoCon minority government, it seems fitting somehow that today is Blog Action Day ‘08 A call to action for bloggers to raise awareness on issues of poverty. During the campaign Make Poverty History asked the leaders what they would do... Read this post...
Let them eat mud!
Mud, it's whats's for dinner While most of us remember making mud pies as a childhood pastime, some mothers in Haiti have been serving them as a main course. Ironically, many of these women were once rice farmers themselves. But in the 1980s, U.S.-grown rice began pouring into Haiti. Thanks to federal... Read this post...
Workers Rights
This post will deal mainly with Ontario, though I would imagine similar situations are happening across the country. In Ontario workers rights are being eroded at an alarming rate, most especially by the huge increase in Temporary Labour placement companies and their use by employers. Temporary agencies,... Read this post...
Protecting life
What springs to your mind when you hear this phrase? Perhaps programs which allow people access to the essentials for living– homes, food access to health care. Perhaps you think of the bike helmet you bought your child, or your resolve to never drive drunk or tired or otherwise occupied. Maybe... Read this post...
