Welcome to this week’s edition of the rabble.ca weekly blog roundup!
First thing: let’s welcome new blogger Don Tapscott to the blog dashboard and support his vision to create conversation around the growing theme of the power of collaboration.
Second thing: check out all these lovely blogs for thoughts, commiserations and opinons on Harper’s 2012 federal budget, robocall culprits, minimum wages and social media.
Happy long weekend!
Conservatives try to pass the blame for the ridiculous robocalls that occurred during the election to Elections Canada as Karl Nerenberg gives us the breakdown on the conservatives’ tedious points in Hill Dispatches: Chief Electoral Officer says robocalls are ‘absolutely outrageous’.
If you are a fan of Stephen Harper, then he has got your back with budget 2012, and if you are not, well he doesn’t seem to care, as Tria Donaldson discusses in Harper Government sticks it to youth with budget 2012.
Governments keeping their promises to instate or raise minimum wages: crazy! But, what does this mean for countries like the U.S. and Canada who benefit from the exploitation of cheap labour? Tariq Jeeroburkhan walks us through the changes in Raising minimum wages across Asia and the globe: the Pacific equalizer.
Tonya Surman outlines her three major issues with the 2012 federal budget and how it places Canada in a narrow-minded and short-term view in Will a 19th century budget really position Canada for the 21st century?
On March 31, 8,000 people took to the streets to support locked out workers in Alma, Quebec as Jesse McLaren captures in Photo essay: Global day of action in Alma, Quebec.
“To these people, im/migrants are nothing but fodder for the profit beast.” Yen Chu, Syed Hussan and Mary-Elizabeth Dill show how budget 2012 treats people as automatons in Budget 2012: Tories commit to treating im/migrants as labour, not people.
The revolution will be tweeted. Don Tapscott provokes discussion on the power of collaboration and social media in Brace yourself for a collaborative world, courtesy of the Internet.
Fanshawe College students in London, Ontario face trouble in the job search after the disasterous St. Patrick’s Day riots as Erika Faust reports in Rebuilding after the riot: Fanshawe student job hunt is not going to be easy.
“Every single rejection of my identity or my voice created a scar on my heart.” Pamela Palmater’s passionate appeal to make indigenous voices heard in Nothing can silence grassroots First Nations.
Photo courtesy of Jesse McLaren.
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