On Friday, Statscan reported that the Canadian economy added another 22,000 jobs in May and that the unemployment rate fell to 7.4%. The economy grew in the first quarter at a healthy annualized clip of 3.9% and according again to statscan it did so i…
Continue readingAll Politics Is Local: The Canadian Economy’s Strange Success
On Friday, Statscan reported that the Canadian economy added another 22,000 jobs in May and that the unemployment rate fell to 7.4%. The economy grew in the first quarter at a healthy annualized clip of 3.9% and according again to statscan it did so in all the right way. Huge
Continue readingExcited Delirium: How Canada Can Cut About $3 Billion – The Easy Way
Funding to the IMF should be cut off.
Continue readingCanada: persistently 2nd worst in class
During the last election much was made about Canada’s relatively good performance during the last recession. What was conveniently left out of the discussion by all political parties is just how dismal Canada’s macroeconomic performance h…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Not yet satisfied
Eric highlights Environics’ polling as to how happy supporters of various parties are with last month’s federal election results. And the findings look to bode about as well as possible for the NDP’s prospects of expanding its reach over the next few years:
Conservative supporters felt very positively about the election result – and why not. Their party won a majority. Fully 82% are quite happy.But New Democratic voters aren’t as pleased as you might expect. Their party made a historic breakthrough in Quebec, won the most seats and votes in their history, and are now the Official Opposition. But only 27% of their voters are happy with the results.Though it is somewhat surprising it is as high as it is, 13% of Liberal voters and 10% of Bloc voters feel positively about what happened on May 2nd. Thirty percent of non-voters are also pleased with the result.As for having negative feelings about the election result, only 2% of Conservative voters have some regrets. That is miniscule. Surprisingly, only 21% of non-voters feel the same way (36% are, understandably, indifferent).Despite their historic outcome, fully 42% of NDP voters feel sad or fearful about the election results. And despite being reduced to third party status, only 54% of Liberal voters feel negatively. It is a majority, but you’d expect Liberals to be a little more upset, along the lines of the 73% of Bloc voters.
Now, it’s important enough that a substantial number of NDP voters were hoping for more rather than expressing satisfaction with the party’s position. After it’s surely easier to build a movement when supporters are concerned about the direction of the country and motivated to change it, rather than seeing reason to get complacent.But the level of satisfaction with the election result among the opposition parties is especially significant when paired with the NDP’s post-election polling boost. In effect, it looks like a number of the Lib voters who already looked like promising NDP targets have already made the jump – and are apparently finding a landing pad which fits their own attitudes about the election.[Edit: fixed quote.]
Continue readingMusic for a Sunday: Might be a brave new world…
…but it’s really not my home:
For me, this is the song that started a lot: my love for the music (and social justice activism) of Tom Cochrane, and oh yeah: my interest in Neruda, for whom the album that this song came from was named. A st…
Continue readingCathiefromCanada: Nice to see
Nice to see the United States and Canada united at last — in our hatred of the Miami Heat and our joy at the Mavericks win!
Continue readingMorton's Musings: MINISTER OF JUSTICE TO DISCUSS CRIMINAL JUSTICE LEGISLATION
Perhaps we'll get some details of the crime legislation? As I have said before a detailed review of the legislation as proposed may be very helpful — but the actual proposals need to be available first:MINISTER OF JUSTICE TO DISCUSS CRIMINAL JUST…
Continue readingMorton's Musings: The Post Office
When I started in business I would get, on a normal day, ten or more letters. People communicated by telephone and, if there was a need to make a permanent record of a communication, by letter mailed through the post. Today I get virtually no letters b…
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: Family Radio’s Harold Camping suffers stroke
The 89-year-old radio evangelist and president of the Oakland nonprofit Family Radio was taken by ambulance from his house Thursday night, a neighbor said, but his well-known, gravelly voice that led many believers to donate millions of dollars to his … Continue reading →
Continue readingThis is one book I can’t wait to read
I’m not much for books (most blog posts are too long for my attention span). But this proposed expose on the House of Commons by former Liberal MP Michelle Simson is sure to be at the top of my reading list.
OTTAWA — The House of Commons is deeply …
The Dominion blogs: Permaculture 1
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Hello,
My name’s Omri and in addition to being one of the new interns at the Dominion I’m also really into Permaculture.
What is Permaculture you ask? Permaculture is a c…
Common Wisdom I Just Don’t Get – Outsourcing
Here's what I don't understand about outsourcing. Perhaps you can help me. I understand there is a whole world of people that will spend long hours in factories for much less money than North Americans will. I understand that holding down labou…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Muskrat Falls timelines “unlikely to be achieved”: external review
An external expert review of the Muskrat Falls project warned Nalcor and the provincial government that the project’s schedule is unrealistic, according to documents obtained by Canadian Press. As Canadian Press reported on Sunday: Provincial Cr…
Continue readingA Blog By James Curran: 6 Pitstops!!!
Wow! Six? Holy!
Continue readingWhy Does Everyone Hate World Cup Sockey So Much?
AllTheDivingThatFitsWavingFingersVilleA couple of days ago the Globe’s M. Sekeres helped fan the flames of this ‘Everyone Hates The Canucks’ meme by dropping logs like the following into the non-stop chat show fire:…On the Jim Rome radio show, form…
Continue readingThe Dirty Dozen
In the theme of today’s Vancouver Canucks posts, here’s The Dirty Dozen NHL fans across Canada and the United States love to hate. Go Canucks!
Note to Cathal Kelly of The Star: your breitbarting of the Canucks in headline after headline is full of old…
Continue readingcmkl: Rideau Lakes is over. I’m wiped. But happy
So I’m back. Rideau Lakes is over. Sniff. There were minutes today, however where I would not have been so sentimental. The moonscape loosely termed ‘road’ between Meryln Wilson Road and Century Road East, for example. The point where the crosswind sta…
Continue readingOutrage in Calgary Over GAP Images
I wonder why the folks from the Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform (CCBR) are so shocked (shocked!) to discover that they are not welcome to shove their medieval beliefs down students’ throats outside of high schools in Calgary. Stephanie Gra…
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Never Waking Up
Spirit has taken a dirt nap on Mars, years after it was expected to fail. If only Microsoft, Apple, or Garmin could build devices half as reliable as a Martian rover, I wouldn’t have to make so many blasted RMA claims on or off warranty. If only we put a higher priority on space travel […]
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