Saturday Photo: Last Year’s Lilacs
This morning I'm going to go hack away at the neighbor's lilac bushes. This is what they looked like last year--fragrant and really lovely. But after the fire, the workers…
No Post on Friday: Was Blogger out Bagging Some Rays?
Couldn't post yesterday because gremlins got into Blogger. Things seem to be back to normal now, and it was such a lovely day here, I had the whimsical thought that…
Flooding on purpose
I suppose desperate times call for desperate measures, hence today's forced flood in rural Manitoba to destroy a hundred or so homes in order to save another 1000 or more.…
Ontario’s Slave Labour Market
Back in early march I had a rather disheartening conversation with the 27year old son of a close friend. This young man has never known stable long term employment in…
Success places Harper Conservatives between a rock and a hard place
A young Stephen Harper with the rock in the background. The hard place was yet to come. Below: Pierre Trudeau, Canada’s last truly liberal prime minister.This column appeared in Friday’s…
Coal and Racism as Political Weapons in Dalton McGuinty’s Ontario
Surprised to see coal and racism have anything to do with each other? Welcome to Dalton McGuinty’s Ontario. Disagree with him and you’re a coal loving, puppy kicking, candy stealing…
Akaash Maharaj: A Party of the Many
As long as I have been involved in the Liberal Party, it has been my conviction that for all its strengths, its one fundamental weakness has been an unhealthy obsession…
You Want Some Autism Awareness? Autism Is A Disorder, Autism Can Restrict Lives, Autism Can End Lives
The site where Adam Benhamama's body was found Tuesday, several kilometres downstream from where police believe he fell into the water in early April. (Elias Abboud/CBC) Two incidents in recent…
Marc Lemire Denies Past Again
Now that Blogger is back to normal, on with the blogging! The Warman and the CHRC vs. Lemire case will be heard by the Federal Court this coming December. Our…
Best New Name For LINO’s So Far?
ProMediaLaggingTweetThis!VilleColin Hansen has called on his failing BC Liberal Party to re-name and re-brand itself. Best name so far on #samepartydiffname from Mike Lowe is: "Conservative Liberal Alliance Party"......aka....."The CLAP"Ha!_____Mine…
It’s Friday so….Promises, Promises
Read whatever you like into this choice.(via ~ Jian Gomeshi)
It’s Friday so….Promises, Promises
Read whatever you like into this choice.(via ~ Jian Gomeshi)
It’s Friday so….Promises, Promises
Read whatever you like into this choice. (via ~ Jian Gomeshi)
Does Elections-BC Want To Turn Reasonable People Into Crazed Conspiracy Theorists?
ByeByeGoneBadPointGreyVilleSo....There has been all sorts of chatter on the Lotuslandian interwebz about things like... - Extra ballot boxes that suddenly appeared out of nowhere... - Advance polls that may not…
Dissent
I return again today to the topic of tolerating dissent. Here's what @rosiebarton tweeted today that set me off: I'm listening to the Liberal scrums. These people have a LONG…
B.C. Conservative goes for the troglodyte vote in bid to resurrect moribund party
Blogger.com was down from Thursday noon until today, so please forgive me for not blogging about this sooner. Simon has beaten me to it already. The B.C. Conservative Party hasn't…
Building liberalism beyond the Liberal Party
We’ve been necessarily focused on how to reform, restructure and renew the Liberal Party of Canada, as we should be, but to be successful at refreshing liberalism in Canada and…
Green Party of Canada: Focus on the Future, Part IV: Internal Structure & Processes
For those of my regular readers whom may have thought that in my last few blogposts that I have been venturing a little too deeply into the waters reserved specifically…
#G20 aftermath, Robert Dziekanski, and police accountability
Because of the recent, er, unpleasantness, I've started a backup site over at Tumblr. (OK, OK, I wanted another excuse to geek out. Like I don't have enough already.) Anyway,…