Author: Dan Zorg

Tim Hortons Is Hiring!! (Must Speak Tagalog)   Up the street from me, Tims has only foreign workers.  Down the street from me, it also has, more or less, foreign workers.   This whole thing about how the Harper government was encouraging employers to hire cheap foreigners and bypass Canadian

On the far-right CBC Rex Murphy program the other day, Rex was inviting Canadians to call in and join in on his hagiographical paean to his idol.  He bagged a few Tory bagpeople, like Rod Love and Joan Crockatt, to help him on his onanistic foray.  I only heard bits

Tom Flanagan’s Workday   8:23 Hoo well.  Gotta get up again, tell all those worthless losers to get out there and get a job.    8:25 Whoa, I just dreamed I was a young buck from Texas who paraphrased a bunch of  stuff and ‘wrote’ about hapless Indians and got

The Lougheed Legacy: Christy Clark, and a Divided and Uncompetitive Nation  You will note that I did not make this post at the time of Peter Lougheed’s death and the celebrations of his life.  People who knew him seemed to feel he was a good man.  I’m hardly here to

Alberta Votes, Redux:  How Danielle Smith and the Wildrose Managed to Lose Huge Pollsters, Pundits, the Media, and Academics Ironically Make Danielle Smith Lose Election I chose the word “manage” in the title above.  Losses can be managed every bit as well as can wins. As I noted in a prior

Alberta Votes . . . for Mugabe Again! Pollsters, Pundits, and Academics Amazed; Blame Voters for Being Unvoterly Mexico’s Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), the Soviet Union, Equatorial Guinea, Castro—strange bedfellows the Alberta Tories make out with on the world stage in terms of one-party rule. You would think that the

My local CBC radio station led this morning with: “Air Canada: do we need it?” I guess that’s a rhetorical question, like, “use of your left hand; do you care?” As usual, the Harperites are stepping in to attempt to back up merit-deprived CEOs against the people who put Jaguars

 Ensuring dictatorships, as in Russia, one step at a time.  Of course, political scientists have already dilated at endless length on this subject, so far be it from me to invade that virgin unread territory with any comment I might have.  Still, I’d like to comment, specifically with reference to