I had a good talk today with Murray Calder, a former Member of Parliament, about the future of the Liberal Party. Murray allowed me to speak directly on the blog about our discussion. We spoke of many things but a central point Murray made was that the median age in
Continue readingAlberta values are not Western values
Globe and Mail columnist John Ibbitson recently gave a talk to a standing-room only crowd of Torontonians about how a set of Western values has captured the country. Ibbitson was, I suspect, making a mistake common to Eastern pundits. He was assuming that what might be called Alberta values form
Continue readingCathiefromCanada: Halleluia Chorus two ways
Quinhagak school 5th grade class in Alaska: Port Orchard school does the Silent Monks
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: We need to look forward as opposed to looking backwards
Jeff Kaye writes here on the findings of the American Senate Intelligence Committee investigation of the CIA’s involvement in torture. Since I agree with Kaye that there won’t be a lot of reporting on this in the media I’m going to pass on a portion of the quoted remarks of
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Media Culpa On Margaret Wente’s General Crappiness
Migrating quotes, improper attribution, possible borderline plagiarism. Margaret Wente columns have it all.
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Sisterwives reframes the polygamy debate
It is always easier to dispel some characterization when it is given absolutely; not just as a generalization, not just as something that exists for some people, but as something that is always true. In this case, one merely needs to find a single counterexample to disprove the claim. Polygamy is one of those subjects
Continue readingCalgaryGrit: The Value of Female Candidates
The NDP may not believe in using financial incentives to encourage environmentally conscious behaviour, but leadership candidate Paul Dewar has come up with a market solution that incentivizes political parties to run female candidates: OTTAWA—New Democratic leadership candidate Paul Dewar wants to bring back the political subsidy the Conservative government
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Doctrine of Federal Paramountcy
Quebec (Attorney General) v. Canada (Human Resources and Social Development), 2011 SCC 60, released this morning, has a useful discussion of the Doctrine of Federal Paramountcy: [17] In Quebec (Attorney General) v. Canadian Owners and Pilots Association, 2010 SCC 39, [2010] 2
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Climate Denier Marc Morano Praises "George W. Obama" at COP17
marc-morano.jpg If the jury was still out on President Barack Obama's climate policy accolades (a huge "if"), consider the verdict now in, and from a surprising character at that: Marc Morano. Morano jubilantly referred to the President as "George W. Obama" in an interview with Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman at COP17, stating: They [the Obama
Continue reading#RIPHugoChavez = #Twitterfail
Riddle me this: When is a Trending Topic NOT a trending topic? Courtesy of Patria Grande, here comes a wake-up call for all you internauts who love Venezuela, and who want to keep abreast of all the dirty tricks of empire: Today, the Trending Topics of Twitter woke to the
Continue readingPaul Dewar: Equality is a Canadian value
NDP leadership contender Paul Dewar is in trouble with Conservatives again. He must be doing something right. 22.1% of the House of Commons are women, more or less the situation since 1997. Paul has just unveiled a policy piece proposing a practical plan to improve the representation of women in
Continue reading350 or bust: Some Honesty At Durban Climate Conference: Youth Told “No One Is Listening To You”
Willard Metzger is the General Secretary of Mennonite Church Canada and blogs at Church Guy. He is well acquainted with the suffering that climate change is already inflicting on the most vulnerable among us, as the former Director-Church Relation of World Vision Canada and the author of Thanking God With
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: Must-See Video: Gitxsan Come Together, Call for Healing and Strength
While news emerges that a court order may have been obtained to remove Gitxsan leaders and community members who took over the Treaty office in Hazelton earlier this week – in response to a deal made with Enbridge by treaty negotiator Elmer Derrick without the knowledge or approval of the
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: Video: Gitxsan Come Together, Call for Healing and Strength
While news emerges that a court order may have been obtained to remove Gitxsan leaders and community members who took over the Treaty office in Hazelton earlier this week – in response to a deal made with Enbridge by treaty negotiator Elmer Derrick without the knowledge or approval of the
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: Video: Gitxsan Come Together, Call for Healing and Strength
While news emerges that a court order may have been obtained to remove Gitxsan leaders and community members who took over the Treaty office in Hazelton earlier this week – in response to a deal made with Enbridge by treaty negotiator Elmer Derrick without the knowledge or approval of the
Continue readingTerahertz: The light at the end of the tunnel…
This afternoon I defend my masters thesis, after which I will hopefully have only a few minor corrections and then I will have earned my masters in physics. I also hope to be done school for a while, so if you know of any good job openings… But the busy
Continue readingBuckdog: Conservative Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz – Above The Law!
“Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law.” – Sophocles
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Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: The price of hydro exports #nlpoli
Via National Public Radio (New York) comes a series on the cost to Americans of importing electricity from Canada. The second instalment – aired December 6 – focused on Labrador and the Muskrat Falls project. There’s the familiar cost from Labrador opponents of the project, in this case former Conservative
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