We love cheap stuff! We love it so much that we’re perfectly willing to let people in different countries (as long as they have different coloured skin) work in places we wouldn’t even walk through – places like the ones we striked to outlaw 50 years ago, for wages that were so horrible that we [...]
I’m enjoying the outpouring of sympathy for the natural disaster in Haiti, from the entire Western world. It’s like, sure, your country was famous for its underdeveloped infrastructure and poverty and disease, but that was your fault. An earthquake that destroys hospitals full of those HIV-riddled children we didn’t give a crap about yesterday? GET [...]
The worst thing about the reporting of Harper’s prorogation is the fact that they’re calling it a “suspension.” As if they’re going to get back after the break and pick up their discarded text-books and get back to work.
It’s more like an expulsion.
Seriously, if you kid gets suspended from school she at least gets to [...]
Economic experts (ie: people who have never worked for a living, but like to talk about it a lot) are talking about what a boost to the economy lowering the minimum wage would be.
Actually, though, the argument works even better if you talk about lowering the maximum wage. Then we can hire more CEOs, at [...]
TD is reporting FLAT PROFITS!
OH MY GOD.
Wait, what? They made the same amount of profit that they did last quarter? Stop the presses…?
The Toronto-based bank on Thursday reported net income of $1.01 billion during the three months up to Oct. 31, 2009. That’s slightly down from $1.014 billion during the same period a year earlier.
But [...]
Harper is doing another China visit to drum up trade after he pissed them off by (rightly! I know, right?) criticizing their atrocious, shameful human rights record. Since it’s one of the world’s largest economies, and our second-largest trading partner, this mission is probably a good idea – especially since, Harper says, he remains firm [...]
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