Sure, Stephen Harper and his party have consistently gone out of their way to eliminate any talk or action toward gender equality. But let it not be said that they can't find some use for women in the corridors of power:
The PM, according to one senior government member, told MPs that women in the caucus are particularly good at verbally sparring with opposition members without coming off as too combative.

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Highlights:

• The combined annual income of four of York's bargaining team members is equivalent to the annual salaries of 46 TAs.
• A classroom of 60 undergrads brings in $100,000 in revenue, but only $14,000 goes to pay the course director.
• York has been steadily receiving more income from tuition, through provincial funding for grad studies, and via the York Foundation.
• CUPE 3903 members do 50% of the teaching at York, but receive 7.5% of the total operating budget.

“Material Girl”.

Assuming leather is the material you’re talking about.

Does anybody else see any potential problems with this:
As leader, Mr. Rae said he’d “grow” the party by engaging Canadians in all parts of the country, including Liberal-free zones in the West and rural areas. And he said he’d start by making membership in the party free.
Yeah, because you know, the only thing preventing the [...]

The more news I read on the Big Three, the more my chest tightens with anxiety.

So what's gonna happen? I don't think for a minute that the Republicans will vote for any plan, but at the same time they probably don't want this on their hands. At the same time, there must be enough Democrats against it too that there simply isn't enough votes anyway.

The first of the three big auto makers has spelled out how much welfare it wants from taxpayers to bail out it's massively overpaid executives who continue to manufacture gas guzzling cars that consumers are no longer actively interested in purchasing.

Princeton economist and Nobel Prize laureate Paul Krugman on the auto industry bailout.

I realize I'm coming a bit late to this one, as it seems that everybody with a keyboard or a printing press has made their pronouncements on this issue since last week, but I thought that before any announcements make my prognostications on the subject irrelevant, I'd offer a few thoughts on President-Elect Obama's purported o

The Alberta government backtracks on their much touted plan to make oil companies pay a fair price for resources owned by Albertans.

All those surprised please raise your hands, and then seek medical treatment for terminal naivete.

Press Release sent to me from Claudio Saldivia

The next time a young earther tells you 

Time is your God

Tell ‘em Fine. At least my God exists.

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Donald McRae in the Globe and Mail: What

Ok girlfriends, I got a peace plan for "knocking it off."
Whose in?

The handout:

The Alberta government announced Wednesday it will offer resource companies starting new projects on or after Jan. 1 a reduced royalty rate in the short term to encourage new drilling in the province…

Stelmach announced $1.8 billion in royalty savings over five years for new oil and natural gas wells that are within 1,000 and 3,500 metres in depth and started between 2009 and 2013.

The CVI Centre for the Arts invites you to the grand opening of the Nanaimo Centre Stage, 25 Victoria Road, Nanaimo, at 6:30 pm on Friday, November 28, 2008. Nanaimo's newest performing arts venue, this former church was purchased by the city earlier this year. Since then it has been refurbished to make it wheelchair accessible and the stage has been extended. Guests at the opening will enjoy

What will the free screechers say now that a “real” court has upheld the ruling of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal against Terry Tremaine.

In her decision, Justice Judith Snider wrote that the tribunal’s rulings were reasonable.

“The tribunal noted the extreme and violent nature of [Tremaine's] postings and concluded it would offer readers reason to hate and to be suspicious of minorities,” Snider found.

Says that “Our government will proceed with legislation to modernize our competition and investment laws, implementing many of the recommendations of the Competition Policy Review Panel.”

The U.S. cannot cut its interest rates much more or it will end up at zero.

US interest rate falls to 1 per cent

Which means that the U.S. is no longer facing infaltion but the very real recessionary spiral of deflation. The very thing that created the crisis of the Seventies.

Hmmm, Priorities, A response To A Letter In The S-RI'm flattered that you like the idea for an automated system to call out the bus stops for disabled persons.