What's Left 2016-11-20 Volume 82
Anti-Choice activists, coming to a campus near you; Homelessness is a youth issue; November 20 was Trans Day of Remembrance; Students across the country fight for access to PSE
Bernie Sanders on how to hold Donald Trump accountable | PBS
Tavis Smiley: When you take care of working people, they take care of you
Travis Smiley: The media was complicit in creating Donald Trump
We have been here before, but it feels different this time | What's Left
The Republicans have won the US Presidency, and clear majorities in the House and Senate. All at a time when critical appointments to different parts of the US bureaucracy and branches of government will have lasting implications.
What's Left 2016-11-13 Volume 81
We have been here before, but it feels different this time; BC teachers' union wins right to negotiate learning environment; Book Review: The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende; LEFT NOISE: Leonard Cohen has died at age 82
What's Left 2016-10-30 Volume 80
Liberals announce terrible social services plan, we make fun of it with satire; Standing Rock Hard; Quebec: Liberal Party corruption, police spying on journalists; Basic Income; LEFT NOISE
Basic Income | What's Left
In a clear victory for rhetoric over substance in the age of post-truth, the Ontario Liberal government has announced that it will run a pilot project to test the so called 'universal basic income” idea. However, from the policy documents that have been released, it is quite obvious the Liberals intend to implement a more regressive version of this deeply flawed policy program. The Liberal-supporting media is tying itself in knots in attempts to support the program. First, a plea decrying Ontario's 'meagre and rule-bound social assistance program' that the provincial government has purposefully manipulated in order to limit access to supports. Then, without a sense of irony, the media say that cash to buy private services is the only way to fix the problems previous Liberal and Conservative governments created through privatization and austerity.
Quebec: Liberal Party corruption, police spying on journalists | What's Left
Montreal had two stories break this week, one dealing with what is likely to be the biggest corruption scandal to hit Quebec and the other involving police spying on journalists.
Liberals announce terrible social services plan, we make fun of it with satire | What's Left
The Federal Liberal Government has announced its first attempt to privatize public services using social impact bonds. Well, obviously, this is a great initiative. Social impact bonds and marketized social services are the future.