Just wanted to pick up on a thought in Warren Kinsella’s post on the release of the Auditor General’s report today: “Lying liars.”
The Auditor General’s report has confirmed what came up during the election, that there was serious non-disclosure to Pa…
Continue readingPop quiz: What do we call paying more money for government services? Mr. Clement said departments are being asked to develop two proposals for cabinet to consider: one that involves a 5-per-cent cut and another for a 10-per-cent cut. The focus of the c…
Continue readingLet’s have some post-budget fun in bleak majority land! Let’s compare the Rae and Layton reactions to the budget: “Opposition slams Tories’ ‘groundhog budget’.” (Well, some of us look at this kind of thing in a fun way…)
Layton on the budget …
Continue readingPublic hearings continue tonight in the west end of Toronto: 5:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. at the Etobicoke Civic Centre, 399 The West Mall.
There is a narrow question at the heart of these hearings and posed to those making submissions: “What role should ci…
Continue readingWith thanks to pogge for the blog post title. Meant to describe shorter, list-style blog posts that raise issues in a glancing sense, not a violent one by any means!
1. The Russians really are coming. Proving once again how silly some of the rhetoric…
Continue readingI see some bloggers are a little out of sorts due to Progressive Bloggers being down. They’re hitting their blog rolls in lieu of the site. Hey, people? Do you not use Google Reader? I have the blog roll in the sidebar but I also have a ton of Canadian…
Continue readingRemarkable goings on in Australia: “Australian climate scientists face death threats, cyberbullying.”
Australia’s leading climate change scientists are being targeted by a vicious, unrelenting email campaign that has resulted in police investigations …
Updated (Sunday a.m.) below.
File under things that might have been inflammatory during a federal election that are now being rolled out and are objectionable.
The Canadian military is in talks to establish a permanent presence in up to seven foreign…
One of our favourite Senators, Senator Elaine McCoy, is back in the blogosphere after a bit of an absence from her blog, Hullabaloos. Back with some wit on display yesterday as she liveblogged the Throne Speech. Some excerpts and fun insights:
Well he…
This piece last Sunday in the Star, “Restraining the welfare state,” by Stanford Professor Michael Boskin, a former Bush the first adviser, has evoked a fair response in letters to today’s Star: “Welfare argument full of holes.” Boskin’s thesis was tha…
Continue reading“USC’s 21st Century Virtual Classroom”:
In the spring of 2008, John Katzman, the founder of the Princeton Review, approached the Masters of Arts in Teaching (MAT) program at at the University of Southern California with a revolutionary idea. USC could…
OK, Coldplay, I have been known to like you in the past, so I give you a shot here. This does sound like an effort to catch the popular electronic vibe in their own way: “Ebullient chords and melodic uplift are never far from the kind of non-sp…
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It breeds disrespect. That reference in the blog post title is to Mr. Harper’s government and the actions it has taken which have bred that disrespect for one of the most esteemed institutions in Canada. The seat of our gov…
Continue readingToday marked the return of Parliament with the election of the new Speaker this afternoon. Life in the Harper majority era is formally beginning. Just want to note a few observations from the past 24 hours here in terms of Rae’s debut as interim leader…
Continue readingThe Globe headline this aft as news comes that one of Harper’s most committed partisans is leaving: “Harper loyalist Dimitri Soudas stepping down as PMO spokesman.” Termed a loyalist in a headline of the national paper. It sounds quite honourable at a …
Continue readingReported on Sunday in the Guardian:
Greenhouse gas emissions increased by a record amount last year, to the highest carbon output in history, putting hopes of holding global warming to safe levels all but out of reach, according to unpublished estimat…
There are some questions for you today. Lawrence Martin asks: “Are the NDP more Bloc than the Bloc?”
Claude Morin has a shopping list of questions along similar lines too. Not surprisingly, he’s a bit more specific in his approach.
What is that say…
Continue readingAmy Poehler at Hahvad.
Continue reading(source)A little bit of hope after a tough month. Bob Rae is now officially confirmed as Liberal interim leader. “That means our party has to become, which it has always been at its best, a bit of a movement, a movement for change, a movement for prog…
Continue readingLeadership selection rules are making a bit of a splash on the Conservative scene at the moment. Two MPs, Reid and Kenney, are said to be pushing for a rule change in the leadership selection process that would allot greater voting power to the big rid…
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