In just a few weeks, the latest batch of millennials will graduate from post-secondary institutions across the country in one of the most challenging job markets young Canadians have ever faced.

As of January 2013, Canada's youth unemployment rate is 13.5 per cent and that means greater...

Unpaid internships are in the news again as a result of a groundbreaking study on precarious employment in Ontario. Findings show approximately 50 per cent of GTA and Hamilton workers have unstable or precarious employment. This does not bode well for younger Ontarians, whose generation faces...

As the Ontario Liberal Party prepares to host delegate election meetings across the province this weekend, all signs point to a victory for Kathleen Wynne. She continues to demonstrate the organizational strength and critical levels of support needed to become the Leader of the Ontario Liberal Party.

Delegated conventions...

The idea that accused murderer Luka Magnotta would be selected as Canada's Newsmaker of the Year paints a bleak picture about how the Canadian Press saw our country in 2012.

The sensationalizing of the details of grisly crimes, whether mass shootings in the U.S. or bizarre cases like...

It is unthinkable anyone would lose their life over $112 bucks of gasoline. The dragging death of gas station attendant Jayesh Prajapati after he was run over by a driver fleeing the station without paying is another tragic reminder of how senseless and avoidable some crimes...

Say what you will about Jean Charest. All Canadians who value national unity owe him a debt of gratitude for nine years of relative quiet on the separation front. What could unfold in la belle province post-Charest, poses a threat to Canada as we know it. With public opinion polls...

I was saddened to read that Jeff Damen, a father of two and employee of a wind developer in rural Ontario, reported receiving a death threat while conducting field work on a project site in West Grey.

According to the CBC, Damen had "a shotgun pulled on...

If there was ever a time to have an election it is right now, before the proposed provincial budget for 2012 passes the legislature. Ontario's last election was light on policy and heavy on platitudes from all sides. The Liberals engineered a platform designed to preserve enough seats to cling...

An important lesson for political communicators is to learn to manage expectations. Just as in business, the old adage 'under promise and over deliver' goes a long way to establishing credibility. Unfortunately for the Liberal Party of Canada, months of hype in the lead up to Monday night's defeat in...

You would think if the government of Ontario owned a tract of land that was home to species protected by it's own Endangered Species Act, it would be off limits for development, right? Wrong. In Dalton McGuinty's Ontario, his government is making Ministry of Natural Resources land at Ostrander Point...

When voters went to the polls this past October and re-elected Dalton McGuinty, they did so with a very different understanding of what the Premier had in store for Ontarians. The Premier's campaign focused on expanded Go Transit services, building three new undergraduate university campuses, cutting...

As Federal Liberals meet in Ottawa this weekend to begin the party's rebuilding process, who they elect President will have a dramatic impact on the party's fate. Pundits have pegged the race for president of the Liberal Party of Canada as being between former Deputy Prime Minister

2011 was a year of elections for Canada with Manitoba, Newfoundland and Labrador, Northwest Territories, Prince Edward Island, Ontario, Saskatchewan and Yukon all going to the polls in general election, while Alberta and

The Liberal Party of Canada's plan to deny bloggers media accreditation to their upcoming January 2012 convention contradicts the party's plans to engage Canadians in rebuilding efforts.

The decision demonstrates a lack of recognition of the impact bloggers have on social media and by extension, public opinion....

As the Federal government tries to move away from automatic annual increases of 6 per cent to federal health transfer payments to provinces, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty is finding opposition to changing the status quo. Flaherty has proposed replacing the 6 per cent increases with a formula that...

Premier McGuinty,

As you are aware, Bill 10, the Local Municipality Democracy Act, 2011, will be introduced on Dec. 1. The bill seeks to restore local democracy to planning decisions for renewable energy projects that the Green Energy Act stripped nearly three years ago. Rural Ontarians will be...

Occupy Toronto supporters went to bed Monday night in a precarious position. For the first time they were knowingly on the wrong side of a court ruling that not only upheld Toronto's municipal bylaw against sleeping in parks, but specifically ordered them to abide by it....

According to the United Nations, the world's population hit seven billion on Oct. 31 of this year. To mark the occasion, a number of jurisdictions and organizations declared specific babies to be the world's 'seventh billion.' The children's charity Plan International used the symbolic opportunity to highlight a...

On Sept. 28 2011, while Occupy Wall Street entered it's second week of high-profile coverage for their occupation of Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan, an occupation of a very different kind began taking place in Lowell, VT. Those occupying the 'blast zone' on Lowell Mountain, have adopted code...

What does interim NDP Leader Nycole Turmel, have in common with Phillip Brown, General Manager of the City of Toronto's Shelter Housing Support and 65 employees at the Hospital for Sick Children?

By analysing government documents I have calculated that they earn...