While I consider it my mission to chronicle the fast food chicken sandwich wars, I knew going in that the limited-time stunt sammy from McDonald’s, the Chicken Big Mac, would not be a worthy entry. But in the interests of science, I brought one back to the office the other
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A BCer in Ottawa: Eating off the Hill: New McDonalds chicken sandwich, the McCrispy
I’m always on the look-out for chicken sammy updates, and so when I heard McDonald’s had a new chicken sandwich I knew I had to try it out for lunch my next in office day. McDonald’s has has two main chicken sandwiches on its menu, the cheaper McChicken with processed
Continue readingA BCer in Ottawa: Eating off the Hill: Canada’s breakfasts need more chicken
Bacon. Sausage. Ham, Meaty breakfast staples. But who decreed breakfast needs to be so porky? Sensing the need for giving Canadians more of a reason to wake up in the mornings during these challenging days, McDonald’s recently did us all a favour and introduced a new offering: breakfast chicken. In
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Does YOUR Favorite Corporate Exploit Tragedy for Sales?
It’s not like capitalists deserve your pity when they accidentally offend people while they try to embrace their communities to build spirit. And profit. It is partly because corporations are pretend human beings, with no emotions, no social conscience [beyond PR gains] and no capacity for human empathy, which is
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Dead Mouse In McDonald’s Coffee Story: A Brief Note
The only way it could have gone unnoticed the whole time is if it fell in the pot, drowned, and then sank to the bottom. And that takes awhile; mice are strong swimmers. So the takeaway message is: that coffee was not a fresh pot. Very disappointed in McD’s, who
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Ronald McDonald’s Secret Agenda
As Johnny Carson used to say, “Folks, I merely report these things”. Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitical Eh-conomy: Victim or menace: Notes on the TFWP and political agency
The louder the debate about temporary foreign workers grows, the more it seems temporary foreign workers, especially those from the global South performing low-wage labour, are left in the din on the sidelines. While there have been stories about exploitation on the job and beyond, much of the focus is
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Monster Burger and the Inner Torment of Jason Kenney
Lordy. I think it's safe to say that Jason Kenney is now wrestling with his greatest inner torment since he chose chastity over sex, so many painful years ago.For he is truly caught between the devil and a Big Mac.On the one hand, because so many Canadians are so outraged, he's
Continue readingLeDaro: McDonalds Canada CEO and Foriegn Workers
How did this guy become CEO? Or maybe it’s his kind of attitude, insensitivity, which is required of a McDonalds CEO. Unbelievable listening to this, how he dismisses the controversy over the Temporary Foreign Workers program as “bullshit.” This is a complex issue, where workers overseas, living in poverty, seek
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: TFWP: SHUT IT DOWN, Minister Kenney
If the C. D. Howe Institute study released yesterday isn’t a clue as to what is so fundamentally flawed with the TFWP, I don’t know what is. In its report, the non-partisan C.D. Howe Institute looked at a number of examples, but focused on what impact the program had on
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Political Ambition And Public Outrage
The interesting thing about political ambition and public outrage is that sometimes they work synergistically to produce positive results. Jason Kenney, whose ambition to become the Conservative Party’s next leader have been widely rumoured, announced yesterday that fast food restaurants are being suspended from participation in the Temporary Foreign Workers
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: McDonalds Treating Foreign Workers Like Slaves
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger McDonalds, and several other Canadian firms are being investigated following reports of exploitation and abuse from victimized foreign workers. I have often wondered about the staff at many different fast food outlets who might have been brought in on the foreign worker program, but did not know
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The House That Ronald Built
… seems to be undergoing some serious perturbations these days. Earlier in the month came the story of three McDonald’s outlets in British Columbia abusing the Harper regime’s TFWP (Temporary Foreign Workers Program) by hiring temporary workers instead of available local people and reducing the hours of Canadian employees. Now
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Another Harper Lie Exposed
Despite assurances last year that the TFW (Temporary Foreign Workers) program was being reformed because of a myriad of reported abuses, those assurances, like so many other pronouncements and assertions coming from the Harper regime, appear to be false. Business continues to abuse the program, with what one can only
Continue readingRebuilding the American middle class
When you consider that the United States is the richest country in the world, the state of its working class is shocking. The country now has the highest proportion of low-wage workers in the developed world. Fifty-two percent of fast-food workers’ families receive public assistance in an industry that last
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Once In A While Their Voice Is Heard
It is a truism to state that the poor have little power to influence the political discussion. Those toiling away at minimum wage jobs, our silent serfs, for want of choice, are one of the invisible minorities (perhaps soon to be a majority?) seemingly easy to ignore. This was baldly
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: Ronald McStrangles
Alltop is lovin’ cardiovascular asphyxiation!
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Walmart and McDonald’s Pretend They’re Great Employers!
We need to work harder to ensure everyone earns a living wage! I love when gross corporations try to spin reality to defend against criticisms. For instance: Walmart used to take out dead peasant life insurance on its employees, putting itself in a conflict of interest: do their best to
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Shareholders vote for McDonald’s to assess its health impacts
Alarmed by the growing epidemic of diet-related diseases caused by junk food, moms, health professionals and shareholders urge McDonald’s to leave hospitals and stop marketing to kids. The post Shareholders vote for McDonald’s to assess its health impacts appeared first on The Canadian Progressive.
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: New Item on Menu – The McFox Sandwich
My neighbour told us of an experience he had with the local McDonalds. He was sitting in one having breakfast and found himself offended by a debate playing out on the television, that included racial slurs. So he went up to the counter and asked if they could change the
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