By Jessica Murphy, Parliamentary Bureau OTTAWA – Canadians would pick a tax hike over waving goodbye to freedom 65 when it comes to pension reform, a new survey suggests. A poll by Abacus Data indicates 57% of Canadians support keeping the age of eligibility for Old Age Security at 65 even if it means cutting [...]

A statement from the interim NDP leader on a meeting with the Prime Minister….

On Saturday, February 4, The Action for Peace Working Group of Occupy Boston will co-sponsor a rally and march as part of an international day of action to demand NO WAR ON IRAN. The march, …Read More – Syndicated from http://www.canadianprogre…

Here, on the Wall government’s insistence that public-sector cuts are the answer no matter what the question – and the cautionary tale we should draw from their Irish model.For further reading…- The CP documents Wall’s latest demand for austerity at …

Tuesday, November 29 saw debate at third reading on the Cons’ omnibus crime bill. And with even some Cons starting to recognize the desperate need for amendments, the government’s obstinate refusal to allow for any real consideration of the…

Tuesday, November 29 saw debate at third reading on the Cons’ omnibus crime bill. And with even some Cons starting to recognize the desperate need for amendments, the government’s obstinate refusal to allow for any real consideration of the bill stood …

Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Paul Wells points out that despite the Cons’ best efforts to get Canadians to panic over the state of our retirement system, the truth is that we’re actually better positioned now than was projected 20…

…earlier retirements? To some, this was the future as seen through the lenses of the mid 1990′s. With the Robot Master and his minions raising the possibility of changing the age at which one qualifies for OAS from 65 to 67, I cannot help b…

The Canada-U.S. “Beyond the Border” agreement announced in December 2011 promotes bilateral “friendship, sharing, and collaboration.” These are excellent values. They are instilled in kindergarten. But if Canada wants to build an adult relationship wit…

The Prime Minister’s speech at Davos was, I would bet, written by Stephen Harper himself. It bore the stamp of his long-standing contempt for the European welfare state.
He all but said that the Europeans had brought the crisis on themselves through tr…

Stephen Harper does not seem to care how Canadian government policies compare to those of other countries (other than the U.S.), or want to know how other countries build (or not) their industries, and care for (or not) their citizens.
When Harper was …

Doesn’t this sound like the chatter going on in the US back around 2007 before the balloon that was their housing market went BANG!!!

-From the CBC-
Average prices have grown more than twice as fast as family incomes since 2001, but BMO’s report argu…

Doesn’t this sound like the chatter going on in the US back around 2007 before the balloon that was their housing market went BANG!!! Average prices have grown more than twice as fast as family incomes since 2001, but BMO’s report argues …

If there is one monolithic industry that could afford to do its own Research & Development (R&D) into cleaning up its significant “associated byproducts” (AKA toxic waste). But they don’t have to, because our super helpful provincial and federal governments are paying the UofR to do it for Shell, Syncrude, and the rest. January 27, [...]

Stephen Gordon projects the sort of job cuts the public service might be facing….

Modified form letter I sent started with: Dear Prime Minister Harper, Threatening charities as ‘adversaries’ of your government, is wrong. The form response I got back started with: Dear [Saskboy]: Thank you for writing to the Prime Minister. In your e-mail, you raised an issue that falls within the portfolio of the Honourable Joe Oliver, [...]

Two recent stories out of Ottawa underline the ongoing political and economic assault on ordinary Canadians. More Canadians are now working for low wages than at any time in decades, continuing a trend that began in the early 1990s, and Stephen Harper …

The Regina Mom’s amassed a number of links about the proposed Northern Gateway Pipeline and, though other bloggers have moved on to the HarperCon’s potential attack on Old Age Security (OAS) [See Alison@Creekside], TRM’s staying on this issue a bit lon…

“In the months to come, our government will undertake major transformations to position Canada for growth over the next generation” — with these words, Stephen Harper has thown down the gauntlet. On Friday, in a grand, sweeping, blustering speech (see…