Stephen Harper is once again attacking his opponents’ wallets instead of their policies. Mr. Harper thinks that the twenty-seven million dollars of taxpayers’ money that is given annually to the parties is a waste of taxpayer money.
Says the man who…
Continue readingPrivacy has been on my mind a lot lately. I think this is the natural side effect of the Wikileaks story. But the more I have been thinking about privacy, the more I think we need to give some serious thought to how we are going to address this issu…
Continue readingWho gives a fuck whether Mr. Harper is still with Mrs. Harper, anyway? Except maybe as a demonstration of the man’s penchant for deception – something that has been well demonstrated by his time as PM – what possible relevance could it have to Mr. Ha…
Continue readingA response to a blog entry by @OwenGreaves found at http://blog.owengreaves.com/thoughts-from-owen.
I have begun to believe that in a world of free information flow created by the internet and other technologies that we need to seriously increase th…
Continue readingA couple of weeks ago, @causticchick tweeted “I was followed by @VisionVancouver today, which is weird because I’m STAUNCHLY AGAINST Vision Vancouver. Gregor can kiss my ass. #VanPoli” after Vision followed her.
This tweet reminded of a several conve…
Continue readingI must admit that when the BC Liberal Leadership Race started, I didn’t think it would lead to a discussion of the voting age. Nor did I expect to find myself so annoyed by those who oppose the idea of lowering the voting age.
(Full Disclosure: I am…
Continue readingBruce Hutchison, whose love-affair with the Canadian nation takes many a strange turn, writes this of Sir John A. MacDonald who gave us, he says, “our first portrait of a Canadian.” Here, it appears, is the portrait: “In that strange old man with the w…
Continue readingJane Taber has truly abandoned any semblance of balanced and fair reporting in the article she wrote on Thursday entitled “Why must Ignatieff cajole by-election volunteers?”. In the article, she suggests that the LPC is somehow having to bribe volunt…
Continue readingAugust 3rd, 2010: Despite Stats Can data showing that crime is on the decrease in Canada, Treasury Board President Stockwell Day announces that the Conservative Government of Canada will go ahead with its plan to build new prisons.
August 4th, 2010: J…
Continue readingA few years ago the company I worked for decided to explore extending one of its brands into the healthy snack market. We got together with a couple of partners, invested some money, and began to develop a prototype of the product. After a few months,…
Continue readingI saw this tweet come across the #lpc channel in Twitter the other day:
Salhousser — 55$ for breakfast with Iggy at the Stampede. Yeah. Way to connect with the regular folk. #lpc #regularfolkfail
I have been noticing this kind of messaging from the…
I’m sitting on the West Coast Express, on my way into the LPCBC offices, enjoying a coffee I bought on the train, typing my blog entry on my laptop (which would be plugged into the provided power if I didn’t have a ridiculously good battery), connecte…
Continue readinghttp://www.liberal.ca/en/newsroom/media-releases/18441_letter-to-the-hon-vic-toews-minister-of-public-safety.
I’m sure Mr. Toews will be prompt with his answers…
A Side Note: Today is Tuesday, less than 48 hours since the summit ended in Toronto. …
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields calls Bullshit on Anonymous comments: http://thewfds.blogspot.com/2010/06/2554what-is-up-with-anonymous.html.
I allow anonymous comments on my blog, because there are rare times when someone has a legitimate reason for con…
Continue readingThis story isn’t about black clad idiots who get off on creating havoc and mayhem. It isn’t about police who view their fellow citizens as terrorists and threats instead of neighbours and friends. This story isn’t about the violation of our rights and …
Continue readingApparently, there is great fear among politicians that Karla Homolka is going to be pardoned (http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/824284–mps-look-for-ways-to-derail-homolka-pardon-bid). I’m not an expert on pardons, but I didn’t think they were…
Continue readingThere has been a lot of talk in the past week or so about the possibility of some kind of political alliance between the LPC and the NDP. Mr. Ignatieff is reported to have said today that while he has no intention of any kind of pre-election deal with …
Continue readingI have been a little quiet here lately for a number of reasons. I won’t go into the reasons for that right now, but I wanted to take a few moments to comment on the Committee hearing that happened on May 6th in regards to the matter of the Government s…
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