Jim Flaherty (likely acting on the advice of people less stupid than he is) has decided to tighten-up the rules for buying a house in Canada. Heck, I’ll let David Macdonald of Progressive Economics Forum tell it:
On the heels of multiple warnings from the Bank of Canada that Canadians have taken on too much […]

So, always incompetent finance minister Jim Flaherty is conceding deficits until 2015 ‘eh? And to mitigate these deficits, the fucking stupid asshole proposes to raise EI premiums!

The Harper government’s plan for whittling down Ottawa’s deficit by 2015 includes collecting billions of dollars more in payroll taxes than it pays out in Employment Insurance benefits over […]

Since this year is the 90th anniversary of a pivotal event in labour history in Canada, I thought it warranted a front page article.
The Winnipeg General Strike happened in 1919. It was in the aftermath of WWI when soldiers were returning home and had trouble finding work, and many people were struggling in poverty. Immigrants, […]

I have been thinking lately about how the left has become largely disconnected from it’s ideological roots. The left arose in the context of union activism, of workers pushing for a fair distribution of the wealth of society, based on the work one does, rather than on the family into which one was born. This […]

Responding to protestors against the secret Security n’ Prosperity Partnership [sic] pact, and against the anti-democratic elitism wherein bush II, Stephen Harper, and the guy who stole the Mexican presidency; Felipe Calderon, were getting together with 30 CEOs to discuss the SPP, while ordinary Canadians were pointedly excluded, … Canadian Council of Chief Executives (and […]

” all Canadians have the right to decent housing, in decent surroundings, at affordable prices. There is currently a vacuum in federal policy and direction. Only the national government has the financial resources to address the full dimensions of the needs of this country.”
Take a guess at who wrote these words and when. You might […]

This cartoon attempts to show why blaming poverty on laziness is stupid.
I’m posting this cartoon so that Steve can help me figure out the image uploading function. Please! Fellow EnMassers, submit articles for the frontpage!

I did this cartoon for a zine called “MayDay.” This cartoon should be self explanatory.
I hope this image upload thingamabobby works …