What is Calgary’s most popular attraction? The Calgary Stampede, you say? Flames games, perhaps? The Calgary Zoo? Wrong, wrong and wrong.According to an article in Fast Forward Magazine, in 2010 the Calgary Public Library system “had more visits than t…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: When is “nutbar” an unacceptable term? #nlpoli
CBC’s ombudsman has ruled on complaints about Kevin O’Leary’s on-air use of the word “nutbar”. According to the Globe and Mail: The watchdog says hundreds of complaints were filed after Mr. O’Leary called [Chris Hedges,] the Pulit…
Continue readingMorton's Musings: It’s official: Justice Andromache Karakatsanis and Justice Michael Moldaver are the government’s nominees to fill the two open spots at the country’s highest court
Prime Minister Stephen Harper named two new justices from Ontario to the Supreme Court of Canada on Monday. Justice Andromache Karakatsanis and Justice Michael Moldaver are the government’s nominees to fill the two open spots at the country’…
Continue readingEdwin Current: Focus Idea: Keep on Moving, @OccupyToronto !!
I think there is allot of confusion because many Canadians assumed a large majority of the greed exists and comes from the Canadian banking system similar to the US. However our banking system has some pretty good regulators and is one of the best in the world however there is
Continue readingEdwin Current: Focus Idea: Keep on Moving, @OccupyToronto !!
I think there is allot of confusion because many Canadians assumed a large majority of the greed exists and comes from the Canadian banking system similar to the US. However our banking system has some pretty good regulators and is one of the best in t…
Continue readingEdwin Current: Focus Idea: Keep on Moving, @OccupyToronto !!
I think there is allot of confusion because many Canadians assumed a large majority of the greed exists and comes from the Canadian banking system similar to the US. However our banking system has some pretty good regulators and is one of the best in the world however there is
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Around the World, People Losing Trust in Their Leaders
See, we’re not alone. Sure we don’t trust Steve Harper but people in many other countries are coming to distrust their leaders too. It’s this loss of faith and overwhelming discontent that’s fueling everything from food price protests…
Continue readingkirbycairo: Feeling that Absence. . . . .
Though it seems as though my father died only yesterday, it has been over a year now. I guess it has taken me a while to really understand why his death has been so devastating for me. I understand the grieving process as explained by so-call…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Gruending In the Hill Times
A nice interview occasioned by the publication of his new book , Pulpit and Politics (which doesn’t seem to be up on Amazon with his other stuff yet). The Hill Times interview is fairly substantive. In my favorite bit, he talks about the influence of t…
Continue readingPolitics and Entertainment: Simulation of Ontario Vote Suggests Proportional Representation Has Merit
Voting system affects outcome, simulation finds – Ottawa – CBC News
This experiment is fascinat…
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Gamers Take a Stand For Online Choice
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Gamers demonstrate Rogers’ restrictions, ask for open access to online games
October 17, 2011—The Canadian Gamers Organization (CGO), a group currently …
Occupy Movement: Inequality in Newfoundland and Labrador
Apparently the policy brief I wrote for the Newfoundland and Labrador Federation of Labour has been picked up by the Occupy Wall Street movement. The brief can be found here. The money shot from that brief would be the graph … Continue readin…
Continue readingcentre of the universe: The Inevitable
You might not know this about me, but in a little under three weeks, I am going to be going to the Greater Metro Lumsden Downtown Core Community Hall to do some serious, *serious* civic duty. Hardcore civic duty. And … Continue reading →
Continue readingRecreating Eden: Chimney Repairs, but No Chimney Sweeps
The three young men who came to rebuild our chimney look nothing like Dick Van Dyck and the chimney sweeps in Mary Poppins, but we were very glad to see them when they came this morning.When the roof was redone this summer after the fire, we discoverd …
Continue readingAnother gay boy has committed suicide
Another young life is gone. Another gay boy has committed suicide.
I find it too much sometimes, the lives lost due to bullying and haters. They continue to rack up notches on the proverbial gun. Its nothing short of genocide in my view and societ…
Continue readingLeDaro: Pastor Robert Jeffress calls Mormonism a cult
Robert Jeffress is a kook and this kook supports Rick Perry. He does not consider Mitt Romney a Christian as he is a Mormon. Rick Perry has not disassociated himself from this kook. That speaks volumes about Rick Perry.
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: A study in fiscal responsibility contrasts #nlpoli
Alison Redford, Alberta’s new Conservative premier promises she will deliver some long overdue attention to the provincial government’s heritage fund. That’s a stash of oil and gas cash created in 1976 as a kind of rainy day fund. Previous Cons…
Continue readingDemocratic Progress: Liberal Party Governance
The Liberal Party of Canada has a convention in January. I’m hearing lots of chatter about “who’s running for President” and at least a little bit about who’s running for other positions. What I hadn’t been hearing was about what kind of changes will b…
Continue readingCNN’s Dana Loesch frets that MSNBC’s Dylan Ratigan worked with Occupy Wall Street to ‘craft message’
Funny, Dana doesn’t mention that Fox News sponsored the whole Tea Party, with producers cheering on crowds behind the scenes and 24/7 coverage by not just Fox but by Dana’s employers at CNN, as well. Didn’t bother her then and she ignores it now.I…
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Occupy Together: It’s About Time!
Here is a Globe and Mail commentary I wrote after attending the wonderful Occupy Toronto protests on the weekend. The media keep going off about how this movement has no “central demand.” Go to a Tea Party event in the U.S. and see if you can find “one central demand.” That doesn’t stop them from […]
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