So, in a personal Paul update, not to mention context to this post, I recently purchased a used car. I talked about this briefly in my earlier post about my trip across the north. But I’m not in the North anymore…I’m home in Toronto, where I live in a Condo,
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Paulitical Satire: The Paulitics of Food – Movie Monday
So, today’s Movie Monday blends two of my favourite things: good food and politics! This week’s video is meant to stir up some conversation about things like organic foods, the 100 Mile Diet, and healthy eating. Mostly, I am challenging you to rethink the way you currently view your food.Our
Continue readingPaulitical Satire: Part of This Balanced Breakfast
A REAL complete balanced breakfast… So, I was eating a delicious post-run breakfast this morning consisting of some cottage cheese, tomato, avocado and grapefruit (yes, I’m trying to make you feel badly about what you had for breakfast) and realized just how damn healthy it was! Just for fun, I
Continue readingPaulitical Satire: Buying Local – Movie Monday
So, I’m driving from Winnipeg to Toronto this long weekend and am currently writing this from a hotel in Sault Ste. Marie. But that doesn’t mean you don’t get your Movie Monday! Our friend William Matthews over at Digital Footprint has put something great together for you again, as usual
Continue readingPaulitical Satire: Donating to Charity – Sometimes Politics is All About the Love
What politicians look like when they do something for charity, and are not self serving losers. Wait… So, yesterday’s post was well read and clearly got some people riled up. As always, human beings like to look at the darker, sinister side of things from time to time. It is
Continue readingPaulitical Satire: Attack Ads – Sometimes In Politics It’s All About Hate
Attack ads to the left of me…Jokers to the right! So, Warren Kinsella (a blogger that anyone who reads this blog will know is someone I enjoy very much) recently wrote an article for The Sun trying to understand why the federal Conservatives haven’t lobbed any attack ads at honeymooning
Continue readingPaulitical Satire: Mother’s Day – #FF Follow Friday – For All the Mom’s Out There
So, in case you haven’t noticed, I tend not to blog on the weekend. Usually, this doesn’t matter as most of you are out in the world having fun and not reading as many blog posts (right???). This weekend, it actually causes a very large problem for me: what is
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Twinning Highway 63 – Socialism!!1!!1!
Shut up you pinko bastards. Calling for the twinning of a perfectly fine road that will cost taxpayers millions of dollars. The nanny state can’t take care you and all of your damn problems. It’s a free country if you don’t like driving highway 63 to Fort McMurray then take
Continue readingPaulitical Satire: Rye Whiskey – Lubricating Canadian Politics Since 1769
Political genius in a bottle…or really, genius generally! So, I must admit to something right off the bat: I’m a whiskey on the rocks drinker. For those of you who are purists you’re saying “Paul, the ice waters down the whiskey!”. Others, perhaps non-whiskey drinkers, are saying “dude, there better
Continue readingPaulitical Satire: The History of Toronto – Movie Monday Goes Back to the Future
So, it’s another Movie Monday and today William (our friend and videographer from www.digitalfootprint.ca) and I have put together something really special for all of you. Will was hunting around for some old photos of the city recently, and once we started looking them over we couldn’t help but feel
Continue readingPaulitical Satire: Crowdfunding and Politics – Innovation Delayed is Innovation Denied
The super cool, and crowdfuned, Pebble watch! So, I’ve started spending a fair amount of my spare time reading, learning and investigating a variety of different areas of social innovation and social enterprise. Not surprisingly, to some of you at least, entrepreneurship interests me from a personal and a professional stand point…at
Continue readingPaulitical Satire: Who Watches the Watchmen? – Paulitical Edition
So, I’ve been struck recently but the large and growing number of transgressions against transparent, accountable, and in many cases ethical and legal governing. I’m not just referring to what’s happening in Canada, or Ontario, or where ever might have popped into your head, I’m making more of a blanket
Continue readingPaulitical Satire: Today’s Politics and Weather Suck!
So, I want you to take a good hard look at this weather report for the next couple of days and say it with me….YUCK! I know, I know, Canadians love to talk about the weather and it’s super annoying. But whatever! It’s gross outside, it makes me grumpy, and
Continue readingPaulitical Satire: F-35 Scandal – 40,000 Feet Above the Average Canadian
“Roger that control, commencing scandal bomb drop…” So, I was having a discussion/argument last night with some friends about the 24 hour news cycle and the 15 second soundbite information age we live in. During this chat the issue of the F-35 scandal came up, and only 2/3 of us knew what
Continue readingPaulitical Satire: Every Wildrose Has Its Thorn
“Seriously, I came thiiiissss close….” So, keep moving along people. Nothing to see here. Another PC majority, another day in Alberta. That makes 12 in a row I believe. For my conservative friends, I hope your hangover isn’t that bad. For my progressive friends, it’s still a PC government, so
Continue readingPaulitical Satire: The Alberta Election – #FF – Just When You Thought It Couldn’t Get Any Worse…
The Alberta Candidates: Brian Mason (NDP), Alison Redford (PC), Raj Sherman (L), Danielle Smith (WR) So, I’ve had a few people ask me why I haven’t blogged about the Alberta election and I think my answers weren’t convincing enough for them, as they keep asking. But I have had genuine
Continue readingPaulitical Satire: Newspaper Wars – The Grid vs. Now Magazine
Now and The Grid face off in the newspaper wars So, when I first got to Toronto there were mainly two weekly publications, both publishing on Thursday, that went after the “twenty to thirty something” cohort of readers. They were “Now Magazine” and “Eye Weekly“. Now, there were MANY other
Continue readingPaulitical Satire: Politics and Hypocrasy – Movie Monday
So, it’s everyone’s (I hope) favourite day of the week here at Paulitical Satire! It’s Movie Monday! Today’s one is a particular gem brought to us, as always, by my good friend William Matthews. Check him out at www.digitalfootprint.ca Today’s topic is political hypocrites, and while the examples I use
Continue readingPaulitical Satire: Cell Phone Companies – On the Wrong Side of the Law
So, this is going to be kind of a quick hit, as it doesn’t require a crazy amount of time and space to explain why the Ontario Government’s recent proposal to give consumers some power back in the face of multi-billion dollar telecom companies is a great idea!The bill proposed does
Continue readingPaulitical Satire: War vs. the Canadian Charter – Which is Worth Celebrating?
So, yesterday was the 30th anniversary of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Can you hear that sound? **crickets chirping** Right, because there was literally nothing planned for the day by our current federal government.Conversely, it looks like we’re about to spend $30Million to commemorate the bicentennial (200 year anniversary) of
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