Dr. David Suzuki (at the 5m, 56s point) addresses the inaugural Canvas Campus teach-in, relating to unsustainable capitalism versus the laws of nature. “We gotta bring corporations under control.” Watch on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g-0d3RyIiU&t=5m56s...
in Ontario and now are asking for a “Financial Accountability Office” as properly as their earlier spending budget requests. Offered that Ontario is nonetheless in Deficit it need to raise Corporate Taxes and consider Progressive Revenue Taxation! http://www.thestar.com/news/queenspark/2013/05/02/ontario_spending budget_2013_liberals_spending budget_packed_with_ndp_measures.html  ...
at 14.5% where the unemployment rate stayed the identical at 7.2% May possibly will be just as poor as the new grads hit the market. Also Toronto’s rate is eight.four% http://www.thestar.com/company/economy/2013/05/ten/canada_adds_12500_jobs_unemployment_price_holds_steady.html  ...
claims to live in PEI and got some $ 90,172 housing allowance which somebody else paid back for him to avoid an embarrissing audit. Nigel Wright a milllionaire works for the PMO and tried to aid out a crony. Duffy must go…and so should Wright http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2013/05/16/pol-duffy-senate-expenses.html  ...
The Democracy Project: a History, a Crisis, a Movement by David Graeber – review What’s the 1st question that springs to thoughts when you believe about Occupy Wall Street? Where did it go? Was something in fact achieved? What went incorrect? These are not the concerns that David Graeber desires to answer in his new book on the protest and its ramifications. Graeber, an anthropologist and lifelong activist, was there from the beginning and helped give OWS its start in life in September 2011. He also helped coin the slogan “We are the 99%”, which did so significantly to brand the movement. Now, nearly two years on, Graeber wants to draw some of the wider lessons. He thinks the query that demands to be answered is: Why did it function? This is not as crazy as it sounds. Graeber has two motives for believing that Occupy was a huge good results. The 1st is that so several folks showed up at all. Graeber, who is also an anarchist, is a veteran of actions, rallies and occupations whose participants can normally be counted in the tens, not the tens of thousands. Bloombergville, a forerunner of the occupation of Zuccotti Park, was a camp of 40 activists living in tents opposite City Hall in decrease Manhattan throughout the summer time of 2011. No a single noticed, which is what tends to occur with this kind of protest. The original occupation of Wall Street on 17 September drew a couple of thousand folks, which was regarded as a triumph. But within weeks the movement had spread to a lot more than 600 cities, and large crowds were assembling day-to-day in New York. Graeber writes of possessing to pinch himself as he watched thousands of men and women mimicking the hand gestures and rallying cries of activists who were more used to shouting at every single other across empty rooms. full article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/mar/28/democracy-project-david-graeber-assessment...
No doubt laden with austerity cuts even though continuing with tax cuts for Corporations. All the although running a Deficit for a sixth year in spite of promising “balanced budgets and fiscal duty.” The revenues are coming in reduce below their poor stewardship of the Economy beneath a majority government even though Evil Corporations sit on many hundred billion dollars of cash…and politician’s wasteful spending on Advertisements telling how wonderful things are when we know that living through it is not so Finance Minister Jim Flaherty will deliver a federal budget on March 21, the same day the parliamentary budget officer, Kevin Page, is due in court in an attempt to clarify his mandate and get federal departments to hand over more financial information. Flaherty announced the budget date Thursday in Ottawa after meeting with a group of students from a national charitable organization, who provided their own input on what they want in the spending plan. The Harper government is expected to further tighten purse strings and avoid significant new spending in the budget. The minister has indicated the budget will project modest growth in the short term, close tax loopholes and look to secure better results for the government’s billions of dollars in job-training funding. Many of the private sector economists Flaherty regularly consults in setting the government’s economic forecasts are predicting sluggish economic growth in 2013 of between 1.5% and 1.8%. For many fiscal conservatives, a better label for these annual events would be Economic Inaction Plans. Budgets, after all, are not the fuel of growth. They are the government’s plans to take money out of the economy via taxes and spend it on a million different things. And as the United States has learned, government spending does not necessarily create growth, but the tax increases extracted to finance that spending can certainly undermine growth. The Harper Government re-branded its budgets as “action plans” in the heat of the 2008 financial meltdown. It began with the 2009 budget, a document that came with a label on the cover in large type — “Canada’s Economic Action Plan”— and dramatic descriptions of a global economy in the grip of “the most synchronized recession in the post-war period fuelled in part by the worst financial market crisis since the 1930s.” The action plan would “boost confidence and economic growth and support Canadians and their families during this period of economic weakness.” It was a multi-faceted effort, a “stimulus plan” that would spread money all over the country to help Canada emerge from recession “stronger, with a modernized, greener infrastructure, a renewed science and research base, a more skilled labour force, lower taxes and a more competitive economy.” This “stimulus phase” of the plan supposedly ended last year. In a “final report” on the plan last year, Ottawa claimed it had “steered the economy through the deepest global recession since the 1930s” and has positioned Canada to succeed in the new global economic order. http://opinion.financialpost.com/2013/03/14/terence-corcoran-tory-action-plans-sow-seeds-of-economic-inaction/ ...
Yesterday at Toronto’s International Girls’s Day rally and march the theme was Fires are Burning and We are Increasing. In the speeches there was speak of violence towards ladies and an indigenous acknowledgement… http://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2013/03/08/the_gender_gap.html http://www.cbc.ca/news/interactives/womens-day-quiz/  ...
was a revolutionary of our generation! He took Oil riches from the Oligarchy and redistributed the wealth to the poor by way of Bolivarian Circles. He was willing to stand up to W. Bush and nonetheless preserve trade with the U$ which required the Oil. He helped establishment of a trade zone inside the Americas… http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2013/03/06/wrd-venezuela-chavez-death-cancer-maduro-election.html  ...
disproportionately jails those who can least afford to defend themselves versus the profiling of the police technique and the law http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2013/03/01/unequal_justice_aboriginal_and_black_inmates_disproportionately_fill_ontario_jails.html  ...
Feb. 15 to 16th exactly where over 80% of the Planet economies meet to largely talk policy as the currency war is avoided… http://www.cbc.ca/news/planet/story/2013/02/16/g20-flaherty-economy.html  ...
due public opposition and a variety of troubles particularly the Vikileaks that detailed personal items about Vic Toews…who knows what other negative behaviour are committed by Conservatives?… http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2013/02/11/pol-rob-nicholson-criminal-code-modifications.html    ...
as the Conservatives speak about” Jobs and the Economy” whilst promoting more Law & Order legislation. Housing sales are down as effectively as exports… http://www.cbc.ca/news/company/story/2013/02/08/company-jobs-canada.html  ...
when the truth is he has been living in Ottawa, Ontario the past 30 years. He is claiming additional cost abusing the guidelines whilst living on the public teat till he is 75… http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2013/02/05/pol-mike-duffy-pei-taxes.html  ...
Please join the Toronto Quit the Cuts occasion at City Hall this coming Tuesday to when once again Quit THE CUTS! Attached is a flyer for the east-end about cuts affecting homeless prevention solutions and shelters – please print off and enable us distribute! Make contact with your city councilor and inform them to Cease THE CUTS! See here: ‘No one should really be left out in the cold’ from Collectively Toronto tool to send a message to neighborhood councilors: http://togethertoronto.ca/campaigns/homelessness ——————— Speak Out Against the Spending budget! Join the Cease the Cuts ‘Budget Breakfast’ Tuesday, January 15, 2013 8:00am Toronto City Hall (100 Queen St. West, front entrance) It is time as soon as again to speak out against the Toronto City Spending budget. The 2013 spending budget has enormous cuts to services the men and women of Toronto desperately require. City Council votes on the spending budget on Tuesday, January 15th. Join us as we fight to Stop the Cuts for 2013. How to get involved: 1. Get in touch with your local councilor demanding that they vote against any cuts in the 2013 spending budget. Demand even more solutions, not less. (Unearth your councilor here: http://app.toronto.ca/im/council/councillors.jsp) two. Talk to mates, family members, co-workers and neighbours about the cuts. Distribute the Quit the Cuts Price range flyer: http://tinyurl.com/STCbudget2013 three. Join us for the Quit the Cuts Spending budget Breakfast on January 15th. We will be at City Hall to voice our opposition prior to council votes. Important Troubles in this Budget Ideology more than Frequent Sense • Service and staffing cuts from final year have not and will not be reversed. The loss of revenue from cutting the Automobile Registration Tax and freezing property taxes in 2011 leaves a lingering hole in the budget that is made use of as an excuse to cut solutions. • House taxes are once once more only becoming raised by beneath two% rather of the 3% required to match inflation. Corporations continue to get handouts as their home taxes are becoming raised by much less than 1%. A 3% raise would price the typical homeowner only $ 80-$ 90/year. The cost of not rising taxes is massive cuts to solutions we all desire. • The City is once again refusing to use last year’s surplus to balance subsequent year’s books. This is a different justification for cuts. Utilizing surplus is a common spending budget practice – not the recklessness that Ford claims it is. • Budgets that have been reduce by ten% final year are frozen for this year. Including inflation and development in the city, most departments are down 16% or much more. Much less funding implies fewer services. Proposed Cuts and Fee Hikes • Shelter, assistance and housing is becoming attacked when we already have a housing crisis in this city. Due to federal, provincial cuts there is a cut of $ 72 million from last year’s spending budget. City Council should really be fighting these cuts on behalf of Torontonians. Instead they are adding their personal cuts via the elimination of the Individual Needs Allowance, slashing the price range for TCHC repairs, rent subsidies and reducing the quantity of shelter bed nights by a whopping 41,172 • We currently face one other TTC fare hike while service levels remain grossly inadequate • Dialysis individuals are going to shed Wheeltrans access • The Global AIDS Initiative is becoming axed • Cuts to the Fire Department that place everyone’s safety at threat • Police, who in fact got a price range increase last year, are only being asked to freeze their $ 1 billion budget....
High-quality news! Rob Ford’s hand picked budget chair has resigned following his ultimatum if the other councillors were to add to Del Grande’s proposed 2013 spending budget. The Spending budget committee added $ 1.three million. The Executive committee added $ 7. million and to top it all off the Council added $ 12. million… http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/cityhallpolitics/post/1316169–toronto-price range-chief-mike-del-grande-resigns  ...
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