Posted: Monday, 30 January 2012
Ken Georgetti's letter on Prime Minister Harper's announcement to change Old Age Security as published in The Globe and Mail, Saturday, January 28, 2012
Raising the age of eligibility for Old Age Security/Guaranteed Income Supplement benefits is the worst … Read More
Posted: Wednesday, 25 January 2012
As published in the Toronto Star, Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Big businesses in Canada will be popping the champagne corks to celebrate Corporate Tax Freedom Day on Feb. 1. A new research study by the Canadian Labour Congress shows that by that date, becau… Read More
Posted: Tuesday, 13 December 2011
(Published in the Victoria Times Colonist, December 13, 2011)
Canada’s federal and provincial finance ministers, including British Columbia’s Kevin Falcon, will meet in Victoria later this month. They must know that Canada is approaching a retirement i… Read More
Posted: Tuesday, 29 November 2011
November is Financial Literacy month. Celebrities aren’t yet growing moustaches to raise awareness about the issue but stay tuned because this may be coming soon, if the time and money devoted to the cause is any indication. A Task Force on Financial Lite… Read More
Posted: Tuesday, 29 November 2011
Sent to The Globe and Mail November 28, 2011
Gwyn Morgan uses his column to dump simultaneously on young Occupy protesters and on the labour movement (A history lesson for Occupy protesters). He says there is really no inequality in Canada to criticize. Tr… Read More
Posted: Thursday, 17 November 2011
(As published on thestar.com, Wednesday, November 16, 2011)
The people who have been occupying financial districts in Canadian and American cities are motivated by anger over the glaring economic unfairness that exists in our society. The labour movement w… Read More
Posted: Friday, 30 September 2011
To the Editor
National Post
Is the National Post loading the dice in favour of the Fraser Institute in an exchange arising from their attacks on the labour movement (Who finances Fraser’s anti-union agenda)? Last week you carried an opinion piece from t… Read More
Posted: Monday, 26 September 2011
The Editor
National Post
The Fraser Institute attacks trade unions for an alleged lack of transparency in how we disclose financial information (Open union books). How would they know? We will gladly compare our transparency with theirs any day of the wee… Read More
Posted: Friday, 23 September 2011
The Globe and Mail newspaper carried an editorial on September 22 praising the human rights record of Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos. The editorial contains no evidence to back up its praise of the former defence minister who became president. CL… Read More
Posted: Thursday, 11 August 2011
by Ken Georgetti
Just when you thought the 2008 global financial crisis was an ugly memory, the stock-market roller-coaster is back with a vengeance, and we’re along for the wild ride.
Across the world, investor fears over sovereign debt and sluggish gr… Read More
