So the first lesson of the London massacre: Ottawa must be vigilant about vetting foreign investment and retaining jobs, but also mindful of valuing — and anchoring — our homegrown intellectual property. Why underwrite our companies if we willingly sell off our embedded brainpower to foreign bidders who leave Canada
Continue readingMusic for a Sunday: A movie or a measure
For some reason, this song always feels right to me in the dead of winter: Dreaming is free.
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Resolute Newt
Rather than staging a pointless concession “rally” after his distant second-place finish in yesterday’s Nevada caucuses, bucking convention, Newt Gringrich opted instead to hold a bizarre 20-minute press conference at his campaign headquarters. Repulsive though he may be in almost every respect, it’s a good thing that Gringrich has vowed
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Leadership 2012 Roundup
Thanks to an end-of-week conference it’s been a few days since I’ve done a general roundup on the NDP leadership race. And based on the pace of activity, it looks like we’re into the home stretch as candidates enter the last couple of weeks in which to sign up new
Continue readingHarper’s Canada and the reptilian brain
It’s out of fashion now, but Paul D. MacLean’s triune brain model still seems to have some limited application to the political sphere: MacLean contended that the reptilian complex was responsible for species typical instinctual behaviors involved in aggression, dominance, territoriality, and ritual displays. [emphasis added] Sound like anyone you
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 4183…You Think Your Boss Is A Prick?
Bill Belichick, the coach of the New England Patriots, who are playing the New York Giants in the Super Bowl tonight, cut wide out Tiquan Underwood last night. Y’gotta figure you are on the team when it is less than 24 hours until the final, final, f i n a
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 4182…The Ultimate Game Is Today
The Super Bowl. The best Super Bowl quote ever comes from Duane Thomas, Dallas Cowboys, a star of Super Bowl V and VI. When asked what it was like to play in the Ultimate Game Mr. Thomas asked “If it is the ultimate game why do they play it every
Continue readingThose Emergency Blues: What Breast Cancer Is and Is Not
Susan G. Komen Run for the Cure doesn’t have much of a direct presence on this side of the border, so I could watch the recent public relations train wreck here with a sort of Olympian dispassion and, I have to admit, grim satisfaction. Frankly I’ve never been a fan
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Why did Caterpillar buy a plant only to destroy it?
http://bit.ly/wNcPwC "So the first lesson of the London massacre: Ottawa must be vigilant about vetting foreign investment and retaining jobs, but also mindful of valuing — and anchoring — our homegrown intellectual property. Why underwrite our companies if we willingly sell off our embedded brainpower to foreign bidders who leave
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Smug Stupidity
Jeffrey Simpson wrote in yesterday’s Globe and Mail that: Under the Harper government, Canada lost its bid for a Security Council seat – the first time it had ever been defeated. Were a vote held today, chances are Canada would get even fewer votes. Consider Canada’s performance on the world
Continue readingDemocracy Under Fire: Representation & Depression
With parliament onceagain back in session I am again fighting depression, its not thatthe attack on our democracy increases any more during these time butthat it receives greater attention and is far more obvious. We haveseen the statements by Minister Oliver and by PM Harper regarding theneed to ‘streamline’ environmental
Continue reading350 or bust: Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
“To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Religion poisons everything. Never fails.
Sometimes I get asked by the faithful as to why I advocate so strongly against religion. It is hard to know where to start sometimes, but sadly incidents like what is happening in Minnesota at Anoka High School makes it all to easy. Religion promotes intolerance, hatred and bigotry.
Continue readingCanada II: OilGate: Selling our Sovereignty
Harper’s government is guilty of projection if nothing else. Yesterday’s article in the Ottawa Citizen clearly points out how foreign interests have taken ownership of the oilsands from the inside: Defenceless: Canada has no idea what foreign activity… But what Harper and Oliver inadvertently opened up was a nasty and troubling
Continue readingCanada II: OilGate: Selling our Sovereignty
Harper’s government is guilty of projection if nothing else.
Yesterday’s article in the Ottawa Citizen clearly points out how foreign interests have taken ownership of the oilsands from the inside:
Defenceless: Canada has no idea what foreign activ…
Continue readingCanada II: OilGate: Selling our Sovereignty
Harper’s government is guilty of projection if nothing else. Yesterday’s article in the Ottawa Citizen clearly points out how foreign interests have taken ownership of the oilsands from the inside: Defenceless: Canada has no idea what foreign activity… But what Harper and Oliver inadvertently opened up was a nasty and troubling
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: The Lost Boys of Neverland Have Been Discovered
In March of 2001, Rahim Jaffer, an Alliance MP, got into a bit of trouble when a hoax he had helped to perpetrate, blew up in his face. Jaffer then owned a string of coffee shops in Edmonton, one of them set to open on the very day that he
Continue readingExcited Delirium: The Unspoken Holocaust
American wars have resulted in the deaths of millions of civilians. Why are we not hearing more about this?
Continue readingRoss Douthat brings out the last refuge of a scoundrel defense. Blames media for Komen scandal.
Ross Douthat is the New York Times angry young evangelical blogger, brought in to balance the Washington Post’s progressive blogging voices, Greg Sargent and Ezra Klein. Running out of cogent arguments against the grass roots uprising the Susan G. Komen foundation’s slip into politics and selective misogyny, the right wing has
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