This is my latest column for Canadian Business magazine. Giorgio, a hard-working, smart-as-a-whip University of Toronto student, asked me a great question after a recent guest lecture: What if the biggest challenge facing Canadian businesses and governments in the coming years isn’t an aging society but the economic and fiscal
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Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Diminished Honour is spelled Honor
F-35 $10B+ lie. Your polling station has been changed, lies. Your funding is ^NOT granted, lie. Canada is rapidly losing its honour (with a u). When our honour is diminished, we’ll have to spell it the American way, to indicate its smaller role in our national reputation. Has Canada Lost
Continue readinggritchik: The company you keep
Those of you who’ve been following the progressiveblogger.ca battle are probably confused right now, not sure really what the issue is. You aren’t alone on that point. Some people have worked really hard to reframe this issue. I originally waded in to support my friend, a friend in real life,
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: Have spare change — will travel
Spare Change, a photo by jrtce1 on Flickr. NASA’s latest funding model was not as successful as they hoped. Alltop keeps getting wooden nickels.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: In and Out: Political Double Tap
The Harper Government is known for its zombie like resiliency. Just when you think it’s down for the count, it gets back up to bite your arm off. Zombieland was a humourous zombie movie where the main character explains the ways to survive a zombie attack. You’ve gotta have good
Continue readinggritchik: Wildrose leader Danielle Smith’s hidden agenda
Here is Alberta’s Wildrose leader Danielle Smith: “…abortions are a horrific practice… Any politician who challenges the status quo gets pilloried by the media, abortion-rights groups and opposing politicians…the taxpayer should not be on the hook to pay for it.” Windsor Star, December 4, 2000 This is the same Danielle
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Bit Torrent Links
I’m downloading the latest Ubuntu Linux OS to try it out. It’s a free alternative to Windows, and comes in very handy if Windows ever quits working (for one of its various usual reasons). To download quickly, safely, and without errors, even if there’s an interruption, Bit Torrent provides those
Continue readingIn This Corner: Memo to PCs: Here’s how to go negative on Danielle Smith
OK, PC party, listen up. I’ve been cheering for your demise ever since Peter Lougheed stepped down, so I really shouldn’t be giving you any advice. And please, don’t take this as any kind of endorsement. But seriously, people. You guys just do NOT know how to campaign. I mean,
Continue readingGeoff Campbell: Summer 2012 Job for Mount Allison Students
Mount Allison is hiring a Communications Assistant for the summer May 23-End of August. It’s the job I’ve had for nearly a year now and it has been an incredible experience. If you’re a Mount Allison student and you’re here for the summer I highly recommend you apply. Applications are
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Red Shirt
Trekkies know what happens to the characters on away missions, if they are wearing red. Smith got the Vulcan hand sign for “Live Long and Prosper” incorrect. Her thumb should be held away from her hand. She’s a good sport not to have warp core meltdown after the paper let
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Proud 50 Year Conservative Tradition: Fighter Jets
Bungling Canadian fighter jet development: A proud Conservative PM tradition for over 50 years. #AvroArrow #F35 #Dief #Harper Canadian Military Journal (Vol. 10, Num. 4) (2010) (with bold added): Debate over the F-35 may make the debate over the NFA/CF-18 pale by comparison. When the dust settled on the CF-18
Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: Alberta Party Pushes For Anti-Gay “Conscience Rights”
The Wildrose Party, a socially-conservative provincial party hoping to wrestle power away from Alberta’s current conservative government, is defending its election platform against some pretty serious criticism this month. The policy is pretty far to the right of the political spectrum, even by Alberta’s standards. One contentious point
Continue readinggritchik: Why I will never vote #CPC reason #1,379
Here’s Tory MP John Williamson – one of the whitest guys ever – doing his best Martin Luther King impersonation. The day following the anniversary of MLK’s death, no less. And that he would use it to celebrate the killing of the gun registry is beyond tasteless – given Dr.
Continue readingLeft Over: Tempest in Ontario…those Gawd-lovin’ “Christians” are at it Again…
The perfectly rational (and legal) decision to forbid the handing-out of Bibles to students in a Ontario, Canada town has sparked an uproar, with vast amounts of hate mail directed at those in charge, not excluding racism and other assorted forms of bigotry in these brave, anonymous missives..pardon me while
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ConCalls: Pierre Poutine Revealed #RoboCon Prescott
Christian (Canadian) Conservative, Andrew Prescott, has been accused of being the flesh and blood of the aliases Pierre Poutine, Pierre Jones, by researcher Brian-Michel LaRue. LaRue gives his reasoning in the first of a series of posts started Saturday, and promises the evidence he’s gathered to back the accusation will
Continue readingIn This Corner: Let the pushback begin: Wildrose in the crosshairs
Albertans pay little attention to politics at the best of times. Even during elections, the public shows little interest until about two weeks before the vote. Well, here we are, about two weeks before the vote. Let the real campaign begin. For the crafty, well-financed and nasty Wildrose party, the
Continue readingThose Emergency Blues: Favourite Poems LI
Easter in Pittsburgh Even on Easter Sunday jungle of lilies and ferns fat Uncle Paul who loved his liquor so would pound away with both fists on the when the church was a stone pulpit shouting sin sin sin and the fiery fires of hell and I cried all after-
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ConCalls – Globe & Mail Should Blush
There are days I worry that the Globe and Mail is unfit for birds to poop on it. If their endorsement of the Harper Conservatives prior to last year’s electoral fraud riddled election wasn’t enough of a credibility hit, there’s their more recently published Ibbitson column claiming Harpercons wouldn’t openly
Continue readingbastard.logic: The Pre-Butterfly Effect
Gee, I can’t imagine why the gender gap between the Democratic Party and the GOP has widened into a yawning chasm: HUNT: Let me ask you this. The Democrats of course say you are waging, the GOP is waging a war on women. I know you don’t agree with that,
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