Assorted content to end your week.- Both Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page and Interim Auditor General John Wiersema are rightly ripping the Cons for their complete unwillingness to be honest about how they’re wasting public money. But then, the …
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 4063…Less Than Half Of Ontarioioians Voted
Seriously.Less than 50 per cent of the eligible folks voted.Pour and quoi?WFDS
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 4062…Has Buffalo Tim Resigned Yet?
I hope not.He is a gift from God.That is why I go to church.WFDS
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 4061..Don Cherry Be Dumb
He pissed off Chris Nilan, also known as cement hands, by calling him and two other enforcers of bygone days pukes for speaking out against fighting in the NHL.Mr. Nilan was smart enough to point out that Mr. Cherry played like hardly any games in the …
Continue readingThe Progressive Right: John Tory on the Ontario Liberal Party’s Victory
I said it before, and I’ll say it again.Had John Tory still been Progressive Conservative leader, he’d be the Premier of Ontario today, and I’d still be an Ontario Progressive Conservative. This is what a competent and pragmatic conservative contender …
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Occupy the Church, Occupy Together
Christians. Church. God. Jesus. Occupy. What do these words mean to you? For many, the connotations are negative. Personal experiences with judgemental, rigid, frozen people who identify themselves as Christians have left a bitter taste in their mouths. Memories of being harangued, condescended to and lectured linger long after their encounter. Media and political examples […]
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Would you Like Pommes De Frites With That, Monsieur?
Pierre Peladeau, owner of Quebecor, the T.O. Sun, and Sun TV…that is, most of what is evil about the Canadian MSM…lost 9.1% of his value last year. He’s not even a billionaire anymore! Booyah!
Continue readinggritchik: The morning after
I’m tired but elated this beautiful morning. 53 seats. Pretty exceptional if you ask me when just a few weeks ago people were counting Liberals out.
I’ll have more to say later. For now my focus is on finding a Starbucks on our way out of …
Accidental Deliberations: Friday Morning ‘Rider Blogging
Sometimes, an ugly result on the scoreboard bears little resemblance to the actual flow of a football game. But last Saturday’s annihilation at the hands of the Calgary Stampeders was not one of those games for the Saskatchewan Roughriders. The ‘Riders…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: If La Romaine isn’t profitable… #nlpoli #nlvotes
An economics professor at l’Universite d’Ottawa thinks Hydro-Quebec’s La Romaine project isn’t profitable at the projected sale price to Vermont of 5.8 cents per kilowatt hour when the electricity will cost 6.4 cents per kwh to produce. Hydro-…
Continue readingWise Law Blog: 1:00 pm Today: Ethical Considerations in an Age of Technolgy
For those who will be joining us today for Ethical Considerations in an Age of Technology, a live webinar from the LSUC CPE department, welcome.
A couple of quick notes:
If you are following the festivities on Twitter, we are suggesting use of &nbs…
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Charisma Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up To Be
Dalton McGuinty won a third mandate yesterday. Six months ago he was a dead man walking. He will need support from the NDP to keep him upright. But the truth is that the uncharismatic McGuinty will join Oliver Mowat in the history books as only t…
Continue readingWise Law Blog: 140 Law – Legal Headlines for October 07, 2011
Here are today’s leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter:
B.C. coroner says Dziekanski inquest not needed -http://goo.gl/xEnn2
The IP Arms Race – http://goo.gl/fEqVR
Lawyer Uses His Head in My Bald Lawyer Ad Campaign -http://go…
Politics and its Discontents: ‘If you don’t have a job and you’re not rich, blame yourself’
So says Republican Presidential nomination hopeful Herman Cain. Expressing his disdain for the Occupy Wall Street movement, Cain seems at a loss to understand the anger people feel over the failure of the United States Federal Government to reign in th…
Continue readingBlunt Objects: Ontario Election Maps
I’ve created two maps of the results. First a map showing the results straight-upNot much to say at this time, similar to maps you can find elsewhere.Secondly, and perhaps more interestingly, I’ve combined the recent Provincial and Federal results into…
Continue readingAnd the winner is…
So, which pollster had it right?I recorded the last polls of the election here.Here they are compared to the results. Source Liberal PC NDP Green Dates Details RESULTS 37.6% 35.4% 22.7% 2.9% Oct 6 THE ELECTION! Angu…
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Ontario election aftermath & is it time for mandatory voting?
It was a fascinating result last night in Ontario (I say that as someone interested in political science, not as a Liberal partisan). It’s not often in a First-Past-The-Post electoral system that you see a party fall exactly 1 seat short of a majority, but that’s what happened in the case of Dalton McGuinty and The Ontario Liberal Party. Late polls indicating a majority never materialized, or the PC party again had more dedicated partisans coming out to vote. That said, the Liberals were way behind in polls 2-3 months ago, so a win, even if it fell short of a majority, has to be a satisfying outcome for […]
Continue readingLeDaro: Brian Williams takes a quick bite before appearing on the Letterman show
We all know Williams as the news host on NBC and he is a good one. What a lot of people don’t know is that he is quite a comedian too. Following video sheds some light on that.
Continue readingwmtc: more mcfadden: scenes from a class war
Please visit Brian McFadden and his Big Fat Whale. The war on Afghanistan is having a birthday party, and you’re invited.
Continue readingThey Call Me "Mr. Sinister": Screwed Up System Almost Screws Ontarians
Well we seem to have dodged a bullet, but just barely. The first past the post system did its usual magic and almost produced a majority of seats with less than 38% of the vote. In fact, thanks to the magic of splits, the Liberals with 2% more of the p…
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