Yes, as BCL has noted on his blog, Geert Wilders is visiting Canada:
Anti-Islamic political leader Geert Wilders comes to Canada National Post Staff May 5, 2011 – 6:00 AM ET | Last Updated: May 4, 2011 8:22 PM ET …
Continue readingYes, as BCL has noted on his blog, Geert Wilders is visiting Canada:
Anti-Islamic political leader Geert Wilders comes to Canada National Post Staff May 5, 2011 – 6:00 AM ET | Last Updated: May 4, 2011 8:22 PM ET …
Continue readingThe Short form census is still mandatory, but the all important long form census is no longer mandatory. Even though 1 in three Canadians are given the now non mandatory long form census more than the 2006 census, but now that the census isn’t ma…
Continue readingAfter its crushing defeat on May 2nd, the Liberal party has some considerable soul searching to do. Not least among its problems is the task that has recently proved most difficult for them: choosing a leader. How it accomplishes this task will be of c…
Continue readingIt never ceases to amaze me how eager some white liberals are to divorce race from political analysis when it comes to Obama. Bob Somerby of the Daily Howler (who seems to have settled nicely into his blogospheric role as … Continue reading →
Continue readingIf Jack Layton’s election-night speech to his Toronto supporters is an indication of what lies ahead, the NDP is going to have a hard time coming to terms with a parliamentary caucus now composed of a majority of MPs from Quebec.
To a crowded ro…
Continue readingI initially had a vague plan for this post but have decided to go with whatever comes to mind to create an election commentary medley of sorts. Actually, it more resembles a rather large balloon filled with statistics and cynicism and it keeps growing! The Conservatives have won a majority government and this ensures their […]
Continue readingPart One http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BkNVzf1xy0
Part Two http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7d_3WI7-v9M
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Over the last couple of weeks I participated in a debate on whether OER projects should favour commercial use. The debate, available on the WSIS Community Platform, was quite an interesting debate, but there were numerous complaints from people who wan…
Continue reading“The choice for Canadians is crystal clear,” said Harper. “Continuing our low-tax plan to complete the recovery and create jobs, financial security, stability and certainty for Canadian families and businesses. Or the high-tax, reckless-spending Ignatieff-NDP-Bloc Québécois agenda that will stall our recovery, kill jobs and produce political instability and economic uncertainty by re-opening constitutional debates. […]
Continue readingNothing clarifies the mind like getting your ass kicked. I am seeing more passion about the Liberal Party now than I have seen in years. Forums, websites, Facebook, email: All are alive with grassroots Liberals wanting to participate in the rebuild…
Continue readingNothing clarifies the mind like getting your ass kicked. I am seeing more passion about the Liberal Party now than I have seen in years. Forums, websites, Facebook, email: All are alive with grassroots Liberals wanting to participate in the rebuilding of this great party. Right now, that energy is unfocused. I am seeing lots […]
Continue reading“I’m Sean Avery, and I’m a New Yorker for marriage equality. I treat everyone the way I expect to be treated, and that applies to marriage.”After New York Rangers left winger Sean Avery declared his support early in 2011 for any hockey player who m…
Continue readingIn the same week that Canada’s political pundits hailed Stephen Harper’s “remaking of the political landscape,” — the week that Micheal Ignatieff resigned as leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and headed to the University of Toronto — Andrew Coyn…
Continue readingI used to like the Toronto Sun newspaper, certainly before they were gobbled up by Quebecor and became just another corporate mouthpiece. Then they got rid of some of their best columnists, guys like Mathew Fisher, Greg Weston and Eric Margolis,
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Why is the LPC taking queues from a former PM from 10 yrs ago? Isn’t Jean Chrétien retired? Why would his advice be more valuable than that of Paul Martin or Stéphane Dion?Why are we even going there? Why isn’t anyone worried about engaging the grass…
Continue readingRevenge is more satisfying as a considered response enacted when unexpected I have been somewhat silent for a while due to a busy work and personal life. I also had trouble rousing myself for an ongoing spate of blogging when the impact seemed so futile. The die was cast. If
Continue readingWill the DSM5 render meaningless all autism research to date? Will the DSM5 make it impossible to determine whether autism disorders are increasing or whether they are triggered or caused by environmental factors? The odds are good, given the diffi…
Continue readingFor the past 30 years or so in Canada we have seen a steady succession of neo-liberal governments, each telling Canadians that we have to tighten our belts while cutting taxes and regulation on corporations. Well the evidence is in and we now know what…
Continue readingSome progressives worry that the new Conservative majority will dismantle the Canadian state. Hard-nosed economic conservatives like Andrew Coyne and Terry Corcoran worry that the Conservatives will not actually cut government spending. I have suggested that the Harper Conservatives will cut, but not as much as the Chretien Liberals. This debate would benefit from some […]
Continue readingI am still getting over the huge success of our party in this election. My first thought was that the NDP did great but if you take Quebec out we just got by. That’s wrong however. We increased our seat count and if we are to look at the big citi…
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