Air Canada’s 6,800 flight attendants say they’re getting ready to strike at midnight, despite Labour Minister Lisa Raitt’s comment that she has blocked a walkout.  As they prepare for possible strike action, flight attendants take to YouTube to get their message across to the public.

Members of a congressional panel interrogating AIG CEO Edward Liddy on Wednesday repeatedly asked that he release the names of executives who were on the good end of $165 million in bonus payments. Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), chairman of the Financial Services Committee, requested the names and threatened to subpoena them.

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What would you do with an extra $18,000 in your pocket?

That's the amount of extra cash each and every Burger King employee in America would have received last year if Goldman Sachs (one of the fast-food chain's largest owners) had shared its bailout billions with rank-and-file workers. Instead, Goldman Sachs squandered 6.5 billion of our taxpayer dollars on bonuses for their financial staff. These were some of the highest bonuses on Wall Street! Meanwhile, Burger King workers earn wages averaging just $14,000 a year -- well below the federal poverty line for a family of three.

 Courtesy: http://warongreed.org/

rabble.ca doesn't usually post stories extolling the virtues of CEOs, but this song was so compelling we couldn't resist.

Written & recorded in 2000 by Jim Terr, set to video in 2008 inspired by the $18 million salary of corporate genius Richard Syron of Freddie Mac.

Hugh Mackenzie, researcher at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, gives you the dirt on the growing income gap between Canada's very rich and the rest of us. Visit the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives here: http://policyalternatives.ca