Assorted content for your afternoon reading. – pogge rightly questions the Cons’ continued efforts to have decisions made by ministerial fiat rather than through public debate. – Glen McGregor eviscerates Brian Lilley’s thoroughly inaccurate attack on Canada’s Chief Electoral Officer Marc Mayrand. – Murray Mandryk suggests that Saskatchewan’s New Democratic
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Compare and contrast
One Western premier has some perspective on what a provincial leader can expect to accomplish on the global stage: She regretted, but didn’t condemn, the Obama administration’s decision to delay approval of the mega-project until after 2013. And she displayed refreshing humility about her own power to change minds in
Continue readingPolitics and Entertainment: Armine vs. Canada’s Poster Boy for Capitalism
On last night’s Lang and O’Leary Exchange, given that the odds were 3 to 1/2, Armine Yalnizyan held her own against Kevin O’Leary, Canada’s poster boy for capitalism, a bank economist, and a corporate CEO. Amanda Lang did her best to make sure that Armine was heard in the din
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: No Engagement – Occupy Regina to be Occupy City Hall
Mayor does not want to engage the protestors Mayor Pat Fiacco maintained on CJME’s Morning News on Monday, he would not engage the protestors. “We’re busy, we’re very, very busy and we’re doing what City Hall is supposed to be doing,” Fiacco said. He acknowledged some people wish the City
Continue readingWise Law Blog: The Ethical Considerations in an Age of Technology "Remix"
Here’s a teaser for our upcoming CPD webinar, Ethics Considerations in an Age of Technology, coming up on Monday at 10:00 a.m. As Mitch Kowalski has noted, “This ain’t gonna be your grandpappy’s LSUC seminar:” This video was originally presented at Round 1 of our Law Society of Upper Canada
Continue readingLeDaro: Stephen Harper’s New Air-Bus made to his order
Suggested Air-Bus. “The Prime Minister’s grey aircraft, an Airbus A-310, which is designated as a CC-150 Polaris, has been slotted for a fresh paint job in August 2013 and sketches of the new design are currently being tossed around the Department Of National Defence, the Privy Council Office and the
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: HIGNFY on OCW
Panelists on the BBC comedy quiz show Have I Got News For You trade jibes about the OCW movement in London. Great line by Ian Hislop responding to the silly right-wing trope that protesters patronizing Starbucks are hypocrites: “You don’t have to want to return to a barter system and
Continue readingRusty Idols: Alison Redford owes me an apology
Me and the millions of other Canadians and Albertans who care about the environment for suggesting that she has the right to go to Washington and lobby for the Keystone Pipeline but those who oppose the project shouldn’t have the same right. OTTAWA — Premier Alison Redford found herself Thursday
Continue readingThe Adventures of Diva Rachel: McGuinty caves to the NDP by catering to students
The Liberal campaign promise of a 30 per cent tuition break will be in place by January — at a cost of $201 million next year, says Premier Dalton McGuinty. http://www.thestar.com/mobile/NEWS/article/1088569 I never liked that promise and I was hoping it would be delayed while the province is still in
Continue readingopenalex: Montreal’s Collective Push for Urban Agriculture
We are all still trying to figure out what a sustainable city is. Yes, we’ve got some good ideas. But to go beyond marginal changes and begin retrofitting, or building, cities in a way that truly responds to the challenges ahead requires ambitious changes. What type of neighbourhoods do we
Continue readingMy Morning Ride.
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Continue readingWarp speed
Faster-than-light neutrinos have been confirmed in a second experiment. There will be many more experiments to eliminate potential sources of error, such as the placement of the two clocks in Cern and the Italian Gran Sasso laboratory. In the meantime this layperson has a question, probably naive. These neutrinos are
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: How the NDP Can Win
With the NDP leadership debates soon to get underway, I thought I would post some thoughts on what themes and issues the party should be emphasizing To form a majority federal government, the NDP will have to make another big leap, from 30% to about 40% of the popular vote,
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Herman Cain Art Project?
I would love to subscribe to this amusing theory Rachel Maddow has been propounding of late to explain the otherwise perplexing Herman Cain campaign… Unfortunately, I just can’t seem to reconcile myself with the notion that Cain is a brilliantly satirical performance art genius to the more stubbornly held belief
Continue readingCathiefromCanada: Eff#ctive
While the media pearl-clutches over Pat Martin’s “eat my shorts” comments, nobody else really cares. And all the publicity actually made Canadians aware of how the Harper Cons are trying to ram through their agenda. The exposure just might get the Cons to back off a bit.And for all the
Continue readingthe reeves report: Don Drummond predicts health care will consume Ontario budget by 2030
Don Drummond speaking at the CD Howe Institute Therapy or Surgery? A Prescription for Canada’s Health System examines the state of health care provision in Canada, and offers a staunch defence of the public model. And while the report does indicate that many facets of the current system should remain
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Wanker of the day
Brian Lilley. Go see Glen McGregor take Lilley’s latest column apart.
Continue readingExcited Delirium: Occupy Santa Claus?
Is there room for the #occupy message via Santa Claus Parades?
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