Government and Democracy

Paid sick days needed

This column originally appeared in the Globe and Mail

People are going to work sick. They always have. The difference is now it’s deadly.

In Alberta, major outbreaks at a meat packing plant have seen hundreds contract COVID-19 and too many deaths. People reported going to work even as they displayed symptoms, under pressure from their employers to come in.

Jason Kenney claws back arbitration rights

Alberta’s so-called Restoring Balance in Alberta’s Workplaces Act makes subtle but dangerous changes to the Labour Code that restricts provincial....

Mark Zuckerberg's self-serving push for regulation

The debate over regulating Google and Facebook took an interesting turn recently, when prominent Canadian nationalist Richard Stursberg teamed up with Kevin Chan, Facebook’s lobbyist in Ottawa, to publish an opinion piece in the Globe and Mail that maps out a regulatory path for our federal government.

The fact that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who has been doing everything he can to resist regulation in Australia, is sending out his lackeys to push for regulation in Canada means he’s worried about what our government might do.