canada

The perpetual ripoff is continuing in CanadaThe ripoff of the creative by the fat cats with moneyBook publishers, music publishers, arts publishers, art galleriesIt’s been going on for almost 2000 yearsprobably more The people that create the greatest works of artthe pieces that people are oohing and ahhing about 100 years laterlive in poverty and [...]

So I get back to this “program” that I must attend.Everyone on assistance must attend one.Its where private contractors, buddies of parliamentarians, suck money out of the assistance system at a rate that is greater than the amount actually paid to the recipients of assistance themselves. They go on and on about “blocks to employment”All [...]

Apparently, if someone is not on a full medical disability, if they just get hurt and are limited in their employment options for a few months due to a serious health matter that doesn’t really require a full ongoing medical disability, just a set of limitations on what they can apply for like no heavy [...]

Jack,You actually started to say somethingat the LAST minute. Figure it out buddy.You won’t get anywhere following the others lead,parroting their bullshit Start touring and talking and telling people ALL the things you want to doright now.and keep it up. In 6 months to a year you’ll have another election coming JackConsider it a 6-12 [...]

It’s so fucking insidiousthis “external contractor” shitmoney flows by the millions to these private contractorsand they don’t really deliver anything that wasn’t available before Even worse, they are scattered aboutgo here, go there, waste more time I’m up at 5, I get to this place called JobWave.It looks a bit too McHappy to be real.And [...]

I’m a dissident Canadian writer.I write about social justice, abuses of power and authority, and poverty,amongst other lefty things. I know a lot of people who say “I hate cops”.They’ve had bad experiences.I’ve listened intently and often with horror to their stories. I don’t hate cops. At all.I have a huge beef with people in [...]

I don’t have much time today, but this one is easy for EVERYONE to wrap their head around: The government of Canada over the last 20 years has created a society that is living on the edge of survival, to raise kids and actually OWN a home takes 2 working lower and middle class adults. [...]

On a lighter, more gay note than my previous post…. Let them tie the damn knot. Whoever the hell they are. If they love each other, let them get hitched!!! And while we are at it, let’s allow 3 people to form a marriage. Why the hell not. Lot’s of people who aren’t christian get [...]

I’m sure I’m not the only one who’s sick of it.All across Canada, one story is repeated over and over. They don’t even bother to rewrite it. It all trickles down to us from one or two actual sources, and we hear it regurgitated ad nauseum. Our country used to be filled with reporters. Communities [...]

The minimum wage is now so far below the real poverty level it become a disgusting human rights violation in this country. The minimum wage should be the average cost of a one bedroom suite and utilities times 2. So in Vancouver, where the average price for a one bedroom suite is $1000, add $300 [...]

Our parks and streets are full of homeless people and junkies, crack dealers sit in the playground, while swings and slides go unused for fear of needles. In less than 10 years the economic consequences of Paul Martins savage dismemberment of Canada’s social safety net have surfaced in our face like toxic sludge bubbling up [...]

If Mulroney really took a bribe for the airbus, he should be up for a 20 year sentence. That fucker in the whole gomery shitfest should have gotten 20 fucking years. Not 3 years.He was laughing at us all on tv, the fucking prick. Some corporate fucker bilks hundreds of thousands of Canucks out of [...]

Millions of Canadians use drugs. Weed. Coke. Ecstacy. LSD. Magic Mushrooms. and on and on.Stop trying to lock them up for it. Its a socially acceptable way to stigmatize and criminalize large numbers of the canadian population. And Jack – a HUGE chunk of those potheads and mushroom munchers are already in the NDP fanbase. [...]

Elections have become a one horse show of finger pointing and bullshit.Let’s cut through the bullshit before we get American-style rigged election and electoral fraud. The NDP’s largest supporter base is among the working and poor classes. Potentially the great majority of Canadians. 1. Make voting mandatory.Put a choice after all the candidates so people [...]

Canadians are getting nickel and dimed every day,and it’s poor Canadians, the working poor, who bear the brunt of these costs. Almost everyone I know has to use pay as you go by the minute phones.You need a credit card to get a cellphone plan, and a $20 service when it was gov’t owned is [...]

The provinces are fucking it up. Barriers, barriers, barriers. Anything not life threatening and you’re fucked with the new american-style Canadian McMedicine. Go to the hospital when you’re elderly and you might die from a superbug, because janitorial services are done by a contractor, cleaning is done 1/10 as often as it used to be. [...]

I don’t have a huge amount of time, catching computer time on the run,I do actually do a job search during my snippets of computer time too…. But I’ve got a LOT to say about our very own charlie brown act-alike Mr. Layton.So much its going to take a week to get all of it [...]

It takes only 2 years of college to become a cop in Canada. I’ve known a few gun loving rednecks who did it. They weren’t the kind of people I like to have “fun” with. Bad attitudes about women, queers, immigrants. Easy enough to do. Certainly not rocket science. There he is now, on the [...]

Fear. All over the news. Constantly.Movies and TV. Commandos and assassins, rah rah military man.How many people do we watch killed on tv before we’re 20 years old?Hunting down aliens and nazis in the underground secret bunker tunnels we plaster them all over the walls with the secret super rail gun. Disarm the devious slicer [...]