EI Changes Under Fire.. Don Cherry Rant.. New NDP Poll

January 8, 2013 Subscribe · Forward EI Changes Under Fire People on employment insurance now have less time to find a new job as the federal government aims to reform its rules on benefits payments.  Continue reading... Canada Is Ready For An NDP Government Don Cherry Unleashes Twitter Tirade On Foreign Aid Canadian Mayor Among World's Best Attawapiskat Audit Finds 'No Evidence Of Due Diligence' Don Cherry: Haiti Aide Money Better Spent At Home (TWITTER) Employment Insurance Canada Changes In Effect As Of January 6, 2013 This Land Was Their Land Joe Fontana Fraud Case: London Mayor Due In Court Attawapiskat: You Want to Be Shown the Money? Here it Is. This Land Was Their Land Don Cherry: Haiti Aide Money Better Spent At Home (TWITTER) BOB RAE This Land Was Their Land The issues Chief Spence is raising -- terrible living conditions, deep neglect, poverty and powerlessness -- will not go away, and will not disappear in the face of attack. They are the shame of our nation and must be addressed. But the Conservatives have rejected replacing the Indian Act with a real transfer of power, and the implementation of the self government agreements which all Canadian governments agreed to in Charlottetown 20 years ago. They have offered nothing that even begins to address the issues. We shall all pay a heavy price for this lack of leadership. Continue reading... J.J. MCCULLOUGH Media Bites: Is Chief Spence Just Hungry for Attention? With her hunger strike a mere four days away from passing the one-month mark (a perseverance even Gandhi couldn't muster), Chief Theresa Spence has now undeniably earned her right to sit alongside Bridgette DePape and Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois in the pantheon of truly great Canadian attention whores. 'Course, whether Theresa actually attends Harper's expedited summit or not, most of our pundit pals remain pretty skeptical about whether this latest round of talks will yield anything productive and substantive, or just the usual vapid posturing, meaningless commitments and thin, well, gruel. Continue reading... JAMES MORTON Why Rob Ford's Appeal Will Fail Alan Lenczner, Mayor Ford's defence attorney, is a damn good lawyer -- arguably the best litigator around. And he did a bang-up job in court on Monday during Rob Ford's appeal hearing in downtown Toronto. His argument is a legitimate one -- but his argument won't work. That's because it is a policy argument and not a legal argument. Appeal Courts, in general, are not there to reconsider facts -- just law. The appeal will fail. Continue reading... HASSAN ARIF Does the World Still Trust Canada? In the space of a few years, the world's perception of Canada has changed dramatically. Under the Harper Conservatives, this country has become a climate change pariah and lost its reputation as a peace-keeper and honest broker. We need to return to an international role that emphasizes humanitarianism. Continue reading... ZIYAAD MIA The Treatment of Farm Animals Will Make You Squeal Recently CTV's W5 aired an episode called "Food for Thought." The video shows pigs with open wounds living confined in tight gestation stalls, piglets being castrated without anesthetic and piglets killed with blunt force trauma. The hard truth is that much of what the video reveals is likely standard industry practice and not in violation of federal or provincial law. Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here Unsubscribe here.