Profile of Lana Payne

Biography

Lana Payne writes on labor, politics and social justice issues every second week or twice monthly in The Weekend Telegram.

All articles of Lana Payne

• Harper, Flaherty fail Canadians on pensions
  It’s a wonder federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty didn’t get whiplash from his sudden turnaround with respect to expanding Canada’s public ...
• Fairer taxation, and a better chance at happiness
  During this season of goodwill and hope for peace, we find ourselves often humbled by the incredible acts of kindness towards strangers, our ...
• Money isn’t everything, except when it is
  Money isn’t everything, but according to American motivational speaker Rita Davenport, it does rank up there with oxygen. Unless, of course, you ...
• Protecting rights instead of the bottom line
  “Equality has, since the Greeks, been the key value associated with democracy.” — Ed Broadbent, former leader of Canada’s NDPLast week, we ...
• Will the miracle rescue change things?
  Los 33. Now found. The rescue this month of 33 Chilean miners captured the world’s attention. Millions watched, moved to tears, as the miners ...
• Jean was the right governor-general for the job
  Michaëlle Jean was an outstanding governor general.And not just because she kept Prime Minister Stephen Harper squirming — and answering lots of ...
• Igor found us at our best
  Igor (the terrible) came. He wreaked havoc and devastation. Washed an elderly man — doing a neighbourly deed — out to sea. And damaged our ...
• Keeping an eye on the ball
  The minority-governing federal Conservatives have a few more problems than the census, the gun registry, the wasted billion-dollar G20 summit, ...
• No dissent welcome
  Perhaps Orwell was partially envisioning Stephen Harper’s Canada where truth and facts are often dismissed, suppressed, denied or ignored. And ...
• Making sense of the census debate
  It has been his inability to control his own impulses and rein in his ultra-right ideology that has proven his Achilles heel in the past and will ...
• 365 days on the line
  365 days of resistance as that employer — Brazilian mining giant, Vale — seeks concessions and holds up its Newfoundland and Labrador employees ...
• The young and their missing workplace rights
  It's that time again - summer has finally arrived. And it took long enough. But for thousands of young people - including high-school, college ...
• A prime minister going the wrong way
  Stephen Harper is probably feeling pretty smug these days. And why shouldn't he be? He thinks he can now justify spending a stunning and ...
• Improve pensions and the sky won't fall
  Once again the sky is falling in. Oh and they really, really, really mean it this time. To listen to the Canadian Federation of Independent ...
• Little strike, big principles
  While the provincial government and the doctors negotiate a new deal, said to be worth $400 million or more, a small group of mostly women ...
• Helping the banks is not the way to go
  No doubt about it: the banks are a hypocritical, self-serving bunch. Most of you probably know this based on your own experience. But the ...
• 2009 a year with too many workplace deaths
  2009 will forever be etched in our collective memory as the year a staggering and heart-breaking number of workers in Newfoundland and Labrador ...
• Now you see it ... now you don't
  With the stroke of a pen and barely a whimper of opposition, the federal Conservatives have wiped out a $57.2 billion debt owed to the workers of ...
• The rich, a little class warfare and anti-union Vale...
  Warren Buffett is an odd guy. Some might say eccentric. He is the third-richest man on the planet and yet he says the rich - including himself ...
• Employers have to see the need for change
  It's one of those wake-up-and-smell-the-coffee moments. A special report by TD Economics, released March 8, should serve as a rousing call to ...
• Time to think pensions
  Wall Street is at it again. Mahatma Gandhi once said that "the world holds enough to satisfy everyone's need, but not everyone's greed." He could ...
• Tobin tax makes sense (and dollars)
  It's no longer just a hobbyhorse for left-leaning economists, academics and progressives. The idea of a Tobin tax - a tiny transaction on global ...
• Employment Insurance failing the unemployed
  There has been plenty of hype, most of it from the federal government, about how well Canada is faring through this great recession. Stephen ...
• Just how stupid do they think we are?
  The Economist magazine is right. And Senator Fabian Manning just proved it. The international magazine just printed two scathing articles about ...
• The asset-sale bait and switch
  It's beginning to feel like déjà vu all over again. Whenever governments get in deficit trouble, the first and short-sighted economic response is ...
• To spend or not to spend - that is the question
  To spend or not to spend; that is the question. But don't expect a clear-cut answer from Canada's top banker. His advice lately has been a ...
• To those shooting down the gun registry Lana Payne
  This is an open letter to those MPs who voted with the federal Conservatives to kill the gun registry, and to their leaders: Dear Michael ...
• Fixing pensions before it's too late
  Canada's pension crisis continues to churn out casualties - from the 78-year-old Nortel retiree to the 82-year-old widow of a former Abitibi ...
• First, they take the gun registry ...
  In less than a month, Canada will mark the 20th anniversary of the Montreal Massacre. And instead of renewing government and societal efforts to ...
• Put me on the 'no-mail' list
  Why is Garry Breitkreuz, an ultra-right Conservative MP from Saskatchewan, sending me mail? If you live in the same federal riding as I do, St. ...