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The Hudson’s Bay Retail Sweatshop 14 Aug 2013 | 09:20 pm
Sweatshops ‘R Us! Ripping off employees by paying them less than a living wage [the Metro Vancouver 2013 living wage is $19,64], all to pad shareholder profits, is the glory of exploitative capitalis...
The First Day of School, 2013: Beware! 13 Aug 2013 | 07:56 pm
Work to enrich students’ lives and minds, not teach them to be serfs! Well, a new school year is about to begin, so it’s time to analyze just how much destruction the 1% will visit upon public educat...
MexAmeriCanada? We Are Not Thinking Creatively Enough 12 Aug 2013 | 12:01 pm
MexAmeriCanada doesn’t have to be our future. I think I’m guilty of being a bit slow and uncreative. The bogeyman of deep integration, North American Union, the United States-ification of Canada, the...
Altruism + Community 11 Aug 2013 | 09:00 pm
“It almost hurts me to walk down a road and have people grab my hand and ask for my autograph and not sit and talk. When I’m finished I’m not going to be on the front page, but I’m going to be just as...
Who Are the Leaders with an Authentic Way Forward? 10 Aug 2013 | 09:00 pm
What are they saying to the growing inequalities of the 21st century? “I want Dr. King to know that I didn’t come to Selma to make his job difficult. I really did come thinking I could make it easier...
The Content of Their Character 9 Aug 2013 | 09:00 pm
Represent! I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. - Martin Luther K...
The Occupy Movement Vs. Maquiladoras 8 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
Workplace justice: a pipe dream, or something to build solidarity to fight for? I had the distinct, and creepy, pleasure of sitting in front of a group of fellows yesterday in, ironically, the cheap ...
The 1%, Their Cottages, and the Occupy Movement 7 Aug 2013 | 09:00 pm
You aren’t middle class if you own a cottage. Remember that. If I need to single-handedly reboot the Occupy Movement for this one, I’ll do it, I tell ya [emphasis is mine]: A month ago, I had a conv...
Women As Meat, Volume 874,597 6 Aug 2013 | 12:22 pm
Backlash 101. Every attempt we made to start a serious debate was met with responses such as “feminism and rape are both ridiculously tiring”. via What happened when I started a feminist society at ...
Online Surveys, No Longer Much Fun 5 Aug 2013 | 09:00 pm
Once upon a time, it was fun to take online polls. For lots of reasons. But one of my favourites was to watch how poorly polls could be constructed. Once, six years ago, Innovative Research Group put...
