The Athabasca University board meets to discuss its vision for the future of the distance-learning institution. Actual visioning board members may not appear exactly as illustrated. Below: History Professor Alvin Finkel, AU Faculty Association President Mark McCutcheon. It took Athabasca University’s rubber-stamp board less than 48 hours to tell the
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Martyn Brown – Gordon Cambell’s Chief of Staff Disses Christy Clark
Martyn Brown-’Think Twice-Vote Once’ Just as Christy Clark is in high gear doing her version of the Socialist Hordes are at the Gates, along comes former Premier Gordon Campbell’s ’Chief of Staff’ Martyn Brown with this commentary was published in the Georgia Straight.
Continue readingdaveberta.ca - Alberta politics: Will Downtown Arena funding be issue #1 in Edmonton’s municipal elections?
TweetScrambling to fill $55 million in missing funding for the proposed Katz Group downtown arena, City Councillors voted last week to postpone any final vote on financing the project. Edmonton Mayor Stephen Mandel won the support of enough Capital Region politicians last week to potentially secure an extra $25 million
Continue readingBryan Crockett: Thank you Commander Hadfield
Commander Chris Hadfield, a Canadian astronaut spending his last night aboard the International Space Station tonight, is a Canadian hero, a brilliant role model, and a representation of Canada on the international stage of which we should all be proud. And not just because he’s a Canadian astronaut in space.
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: Rafe Mair Video: Liberals Bankrupting BC with $171 Billion Debt Legacy
Watch Rafe Mair’s powerhouse speech on the upcoming BC election: “Christy Clark has on the side of her bus,’Debt Free BC’. We owe $171 Billion dollars! Since the Liberals came to power, our per capita share of debt has gone from a little over $5,000 to $40,000 – every man,
Continue readingB.C. Policy Perspectives: The Tilted Pendulum
After last week’s speculation about an “ideal” election result, it is perhaps time to come down to Earth and realize that after a week of Christy Clark doing what she does best (hysterical economic drum-beating and mugging in front of cameras) the polls have narrowed to single-digit numbers and that we
Continue readingRecreating Eden: Saturday Photo: Say No to Fees at the Jardin botanique
Once upon a time you could get into Montreal’s Jardin botanique for nothing, anytime. Then fees were added for the greenhouses, and for non-Montrealers who wanted to visit the outside gardens. Until this year, residents of the city had the option of buying a $8 Accès Montréal card which gave
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: A Spin-Able Victory
Upshot: the anti-Justin Trudeau attack ads, which debuted in the Maritimes so as to get Peter Penashue his seat back, did not work. In fact, given that this is a Forum poll, they probably didn’t work even worse than their top line number suggests.
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: Can Political Polls be Trusted?
Following a polling debacle in last year’s Alberta election and troubling signs in BC as voters prepare to cast their ballots, John King questions the motives and methods of pollsters and the corporate media who publish them. “Suddenly, obscure pollsters, often funded by unknown sources, are constructing the narrative that
Continue readingNorthern Insight: Liberal campaign based on falsehoods
From Kevin Logan, contributor to The Common Sense Canadian click here to read The New West Partnership Trade Agreement Part I states operating principles, including: ESTABLISH a comprehensive agreement on trade, investment and labour mobility that applies to all sectors of the economy; ELIMINATE barriers that restrict or impair trade,
Continue readingwmtc: barcelona, day two
Barcelona is amazing. Some people suggested that five days here were too many, but we can barely fit in all the things we want to do – even though we are omitting one major tourist attraction and the most popular day-trip in Spain. (More on that later.) I managed to
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Vote To Protect BC’s Most Valuable Resources
A lot can change in politics over a four-year term, as British Columbians know all too well. Thankfully, the one thing citizens can count on is smart policy staying at the top of the political agenda. I’m talking in particular about the provincial carbon tax, a measure introduced in 2008
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 5984…Another Holiday Another Shooting
Last big act of pointless violence in the USA was on Patriots Day, the Boston Marathon. Today the annual Mother’s Day parade in New Orleans was broken by a spree shooting. CBC.ca reports, via The Associated Press, that “New Orleans police say 17 people have been wounded in a shooting
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 5983…More Lawyers Than Janitors
That’s D.C. for ya. I was listening to FOX Sports’ [on Ottawa’s The Team 1200] giving baseball score updates and the talent, I think it was Rob Dibble, pointed out that 1/19 people in Washington are lawyers. This, of course, explains a lot. A whole lot. WFDS
Continue readingDISSTEMPER: Cabinet Containment
Ottawa was abuzz this past week because of the latest addition to Parliament Hill. We refer, of course, to the introduction of Cabinet Containers. The idea was apparently inspired by Edmonton’s new hospital-based baby boxes. These baby boxes are today’s equivalent of leaving unwanted babies in baskets on doorsteps
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Indigenous resistance grows strong in Keystone XL pipeline battle
By: Crysbel Tejada and Betsy Catlin | First published by Waging Nonviolence on May 8, 2013: On cloudy days, heavy smoke fills the air of Ponca City, Okla., with grey smog that camouflages itself into the sky. The ConocoPhillips oil refinery that makes its home there uses overcast days as a disguise to release more
Continue readingcmkl: Almonte 114km
There is such a thing as hill karma. It’s just an immutable fact. If you’re coming back to where you started, every metre of ascent will be returned unto you in equal part. But with wind, there is only the Murphy’s law codicil: “always against you.” Even if you’re just
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Radio Free Canada: The Cultivation Of Fear And Other Tory Sins
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Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Radio Free Canada: The Cultivation Of Fear And Other Tory Sins
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Continue readingSusan on the Soapbox: Conrad Black and Danielle Smith
Conrad Black, the Canadian media mogul and convicted felon* was in Calgary last week to have a “conversation” with the Calgary business elite (and me) over lunch at the Calgary Petroleum Club. The big question is why does Baron Black of Crossharbour—oh let’s just call him Conrad—continue to draw sell-out
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