But while UBI is desirable in principle, it’s not a magic solution to the intricate and perennial problems of poverty and income inequality. Furthermore, its implementation in Canada is not financially, administratively, politically or constitutionally feasible.
With Allan Bartley’s Ku Klux Klan in Canada, he tells how this country has not been magically immune to hate mongers and authoritarianism
For many Canadians, there will be a strong temptation, as we watch the end of Donald Trump’s presidency, to indulge in one of our nation’s favourite pastimes, congratulating ourselves on how different our political life is from that alarming, lethal gong show down south. No QAnon shamans or rage-intoxicated, beard-braiding Bubbas with Bazookas for us! We are a civilized country.
The existing contract says employees lose seniority rights after being laid off for a period of 12 months. The hotel (and other lower mainland hotels) have the ability to extend that period voluntarily in the face of the pandemic, but have elected not to do so, probably selectively firing strong union members.
Gene McGuckin
Feb. 13, 2021
Vote was 97% in favour of a strike
A strike is one step close for a group of Burnaby hotel workers.
As we reach the one year anniversary of the brutal raids on Wet'suwet'en territory and the wave of incredible action across Turtle Island, the struggle continues despite the challenges of COVID-19.
This is a further entrenchment of Harper's widely opposed Anti-Terrorism Act (Bill C-51) of 2015. A short time after that law was passed, an RCMP report identified environmentalists as "terrorists." First Nations activism, of course, has also been identified as terrorist. Trudeau, elected a few months after the law was enacted, had promised to amend it to "increase oversight," but he never seems to have gotten around to that (another campaign-trail lie).
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