Seen in Magog, Québec coffee shop yesterday. "Fling-flang"!
February 4, 2026 at 1:27 PM
Seen in Magog, Québec coffee shop yesterday. "Fling-flang"!
Grim new video from Canadian Labour Congress says everything's lousy, workers are getting ripped off, corporations are making out like bandits. No example of unions winning anything. No info on how to join a union. Yeesh. share.google/remD66WhZpJR...
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February 3, 2026 at 12:23 PM
Grim new video from Canadian Labour Congress says everything's lousy, workers are getting ripped off, corporations are making out like bandits. No example of unions winning anything. No info on how to join a union. Yeesh. share.google/remD66WhZpJR...
From a survey conducted not last week, but in the fall of 2025. www.ipsos.com/en-ca/canada...
Canada Viewed as Most Positive Leader on World Stage
Ipsos survey for Halifax International Security Forum finds Iran, Israel are considered least likely to have a positive impact on world affairs over next decade
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February 1, 2026 at 3:38 PM
From a survey conducted not last week, but in the fall of 2025. www.ipsos.com/en-ca/canada...
A thing that'd be faster/easier to do than the bigger suggestions in this article would be to reverse the Liberals' recent income tax cut. It delivers its biggest benefits to high & high-middle income earners and drops federal revenue by about $27 billion over 5 years. (It was supported by the NDP.)
“Extreme wealth inequality is too often treated as an inevitability — it’s not.
It’s a policy choice, and one that our federal government continues to make every day that our tax code remains the same.”-Emma Davis writes with @oxfamcanada.bsky.social’s Lauren Ravon
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It’s a policy choice, and one that our federal government continues to make every day that our tax code remains the same.”-Emma Davis writes with @oxfamcanada.bsky.social’s Lauren Ravon
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The rich in Canada are, indeed, getting richer. Here are 3 things we can do to fix that
When world leaders, including Prime Minister Mark Carney, descended on Davos, writes the authors, the most pressing economic challenge in the world was not on the agenda — rising inequality.
www.thestar.com
January 31, 2026 at 11:54 PM
A thing that'd be faster/easier to do than the bigger suggestions in this article would be to reverse the Liberals' recent income tax cut. It delivers its biggest benefits to high & high-middle income earners and drops federal revenue by about $27 billion over 5 years. (It was supported by the NDP.)
Danielle Martin, now nominated as the federal Liberal candidate in University-Rosedale, in her 2014 testimony before the US Senate (from Bernie Sanders' YouTube channel):
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Health Care: U.S. vs. Canada
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January 31, 2026 at 10:08 PM
Danielle Martin, now nominated as the federal Liberal candidate in University-Rosedale, in her 2014 testimony before the US Senate (from Bernie Sanders' YouTube channel):
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Good to see the Toronto Labour Council boosting good news about collective bargaining. This should be a much more frequent feature of the Council's communications.
Congrats UFCW Locals 175 & 633
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Over 6,000 food retail workers at Metro ratify new agreement – UFCW 175 & 633 | UFCW Canada - Canada’s Private Sector Union
More than 6,000 UFCW 175 members from Metro stores covered by a province-wide agreement have ratified a new precedent-setting collective agreement that includes substantial monetary improvements.
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January 31, 2026 at 1:13 PM
Good to see the Toronto Labour Council boosting good news about collective bargaining. This should be a much more frequent feature of the Council's communications.
What's this? A book about the labour movement that's got both a rational slice of optimism *and* a sense of humour? This book from @dskamper.bsky.social gives Homer Simpson's union some proper recognition.
January 30, 2026 at 12:50 PM
What's this? A book about the labour movement that's got both a rational slice of optimism *and* a sense of humour? This book from @dskamper.bsky.social gives Homer Simpson's union some proper recognition.
No candidate for the leadership of the NDP has promoted this now two-week old story about historically solid wage gains for union members. But the moment there's some bad news for labour, they're pretty much all over that stuff.
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
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Unions negotiated largest wage gains in a decade last year, surpassing inflation
Workplaces of more than 500 unionized employees negotiated average gains of almost 4 per cent
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January 29, 2026 at 9:19 PM
No candidate for the leadership of the NDP has promoted this now two-week old story about historically solid wage gains for union members. But the moment there's some bad news for labour, they're pretty much all over that stuff.
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
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New York: "Gov. Kathy Hochul and state officials have staunchly defended congestion pricing as both legal and effective."
Ontario: provincial Conservatives, NDP, and Liberals oppose any such reform for Toronto
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/n...
Ontario: provincial Conservatives, NDP, and Liberals oppose any such reform for Toronto
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/n...
Judge Questions Trump Administration’s Push to Halt Congestion Pricing
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January 29, 2026 at 11:28 AM
New York: "Gov. Kathy Hochul and state officials have staunchly defended congestion pricing as both legal and effective."
Ontario: provincial Conservatives, NDP, and Liberals oppose any such reform for Toronto
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/n...
Ontario: provincial Conservatives, NDP, and Liberals oppose any such reform for Toronto
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/n...
These job cuts are part of a plan to reduce spending by ~ $12B per year over 5 years. The recent income tax cut reduces revenue by close to half of that, ~ $5.4B per year. The NDP supported that tax cut. Would be good to know which NDP leadership candidates think that was the right move.
ICYMI: In its alternative budget for 2026, @policyalternatives.ca laid out how a tax on Canada’s richest could be used to fund the federal public service and create new projects. [https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/alternative-federal-budget-2026-taxation/] rabble.ca/labour/thous...
Thousands of public servants receive notices that their jobs could be cut
Two unions representing affected public servants warn that these cuts will affect services that Canadians rely on.
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January 28, 2026 at 12:44 AM
These job cuts are part of a plan to reduce spending by ~ $12B per year over 5 years. The recent income tax cut reduces revenue by close to half of that, ~ $5.4B per year. The NDP supported that tax cut. Would be good to know which NDP leadership candidates think that was the right move.
Rev. Al Green is 79 years old and just dropped this good cover of a song written by the Gibb brothers. youtu.be/ICkjwNpWg28?...
Al Green - To Love Somebody (Official Lyric Video)
YouTube video by Al Green
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January 25, 2026 at 8:57 PM
Rev. Al Green is 79 years old and just dropped this good cover of a song written by the Gibb brothers. youtu.be/ICkjwNpWg28?...
In support of an entirely reasonable political goal (supporting the incumbent mayor), the Toronto & York Region Labour Council pretzel-logics itself into celebrating Toronto's shift to a lower tax increase on wealth in the form of property.
This year, the City of Toronto is trying something new: taxing the rich. The City’s new Mansion Tax is already delivering for working people by raising over $150 million dollars to fund city services.
It also means working families are saving big time...
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It also means working families are saving big time...
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January 25, 2026 at 3:43 PM
In support of an entirely reasonable political goal (supporting the incumbent mayor), the Toronto & York Region Labour Council pretzel-logics itself into celebrating Toronto's shift to a lower tax increase on wealth in the form of property.
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hello Mr Vice President this is your economist speaking I am advising you to keep using this metaphor
Vance on the economy:
"You don't turn the Titanic around overnight"
"You don't turn the Titanic around overnight"
January 22, 2026 at 6:06 PM
hello Mr Vice President this is your economist speaking I am advising you to keep using this metaphor
This thread is interesting and informative. Starts out positive on Mr. Carney's Davos speech, and then shifts into a frame that's more questioning.
Carney’s speech is fantastic and lyrical, and it’s overdue to have a G7 leader finally say out loud what we’ve all felt. Draws heavily on Stubb’s pragmatic realism, and reminds me of Bob Rae’s thinking and turns of phrase
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'The Old Order is Not Coming Back': Mark Carney's Speech to the World Economic Forum - Policy Magazine
The following is the text of Prime Minister Mark Carney's speech to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on January 20, 2026.
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January 20, 2026 at 11:34 PM
This thread is interesting and informative. Starts out positive on Mr. Carney's Davos speech, and then shifts into a frame that's more questioning.
Cannot be simply coincidental that this power move by Shatner comes hot on the heels of PM Carney's speech in Davos.
January 20, 2026 at 10:55 PM
Cannot be simply coincidental that this power move by Shatner comes hot on the heels of PM Carney's speech in Davos.
When people decide to join unions, it deserves more promotion like this
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USW organizing successes - USW Canada
The USW’s commitment to support health-care workers who want the security and benefits of union membership led to another organizing success recently when more than 150 retirement home employees in Aj...
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January 20, 2026 at 10:33 PM
When people decide to join unions, it deserves more promotion like this
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Haven't seen the rest of the speech, but hard to imagine clarity and flow like this from Pierre Poilievre.
In a speech to the World Economic Forum, Mark Carney says middle powers such as Canada must accept that the rules-based international order is effectively dead, and great power rivalry with is here to stay. Key excerpt:
January 20, 2026 at 4:50 PM
Haven't seen the rest of the speech, but hard to imagine clarity and flow like this from Pierre Poilievre.
I often listen to this podcast. Its regular commentators are engaging and well-informed. And this week they all (save David Herle, who didn't really make a forecast) confidently predicted that pretty much *nothing* substantial would result from the Canada-China meet-up.
🤬🗳️ Carney goes to China.
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January 18, 2026 at 12:54 PM
I often listen to this podcast. Its regular commentators are engaging and well-informed. And this week they all (save David Herle, who didn't really make a forecast) confidently predicted that pretty much *nothing* substantial would result from the Canada-China meet-up.
What Ontario's current Conservatives, NDP, and Liberals would eagerly line up to prevent a Toronto mayor from being able to say about our city:
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Zohran Mamdani Lauds NYC Congestion Pricing For Reducing ...
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January 18, 2026 at 3:46 AM
What Ontario's current Conservatives, NDP, and Liberals would eagerly line up to prevent a Toronto mayor from being able to say about our city:
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Something that'd likely make a real dent in Toronto's congestion -- traffic pricing -- was killed in 2017 by then Liberal Pemier Wynne, but let's not forget that the NDP and the Conservatives were enthusiastic accomplices in its demise. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Shawn Micallef: Manhattan has lessons for Toronto’s traffic nightmare. Why won’t we learn them?
Even when Toronto knows the solutions to its traffic problems exist, it doesn’t seem to want to use them.
www.thestar.com
January 18, 2026 at 3:14 AM
Something that'd likely make a real dent in Toronto's congestion -- traffic pricing -- was killed in 2017 by then Liberal Pemier Wynne, but let's not forget that the NDP and the Conservatives were enthusiastic accomplices in its demise. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Drove yesterday in southern Québec not far from the Vermont border and listened to a panel of commentators on NPR. One of them asserted that the Canada-China deal on EV/canola/seafood tariffs is the most under-covered development in international relations for the US so far this year.
January 17, 2026 at 1:54 PM
Drove yesterday in southern Québec not far from the Vermont border and listened to a panel of commentators on NPR. One of them asserted that the Canada-China deal on EV/canola/seafood tariffs is the most under-covered development in international relations for the US so far this year.
Closing date for applications for the United Steelworkers/Leo Gerard Chair in Collective Bargaining & Worker Representation at the University of Toronto is February 2, 2026.
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Associate Professor/Professor-USW/Leo Gerard Chair in Collective Bargaining & Worker Representation
Associate Professor/Professor-USW/Leo Gerard Chair in Collective Bargaining & Worker Representation
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January 16, 2026 at 2:22 AM
Closing date for applications for the United Steelworkers/Leo Gerard Chair in Collective Bargaining & Worker Representation at the University of Toronto is February 2, 2026.
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"unacceptable"
What is the most overused word in your industry?
Let it out.
Let it out.
January 13, 2026 at 4:04 PM
"unacceptable"
While Canada's national union federation rarely promotes labour's wins, that's not the case for union federations in other nations. Here's the LO, Norway's national union congress, with a recent review of some labour gains there.
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January 12, 2026 at 1:03 PM
While Canada's national union federation rarely promotes labour's wins, that's not the case for union federations in other nations. Here's the LO, Norway's national union congress, with a recent review of some labour gains there.
frifagbevegelse.no/nyheter/sykk...
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My old union knows it's important to promote the collective bargaining gains that its members achieve -- here are details of a dozen new deals from across Canada.
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Bargaining successes - USW Canada
Each year, USW members at hundreds of workplaces across Canada, covering virtually every sector of the economy, negotiate strong collective agreements that protect health and safety and improve wages,...
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January 10, 2026 at 2:05 AM
My old union knows it's important to promote the collective bargaining gains that its members achieve -- here are details of a dozen new deals from across Canada.
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