COALITION/MERGER and THE NON-VOTING PUBLIC
There will be blood. Will there also be healing? We’ve seen lots of great data and analyses about Liberal and NDP supporters and how they feel about a coalition, merger,…
June 2010
If I Had a Billion Dollars – The Video!
You asked for it, you got it: the musical stylings of Jennifer Smith, Iain Smith and Lesley Stankaitis with "If I Had a Billion Dollars". Enjoy. UPDATE - Welcome, Toronto…
Adam M On The Front Page 2010-06-08 17:35:00
I’m just having a really hard time taking Evan Solomon seriously. How does a change of host radically alter the trajectory of this program so much? Isn’t there some kind…
Ballad of Fake Lake (Edmund Fitzgerald)
Whooee! Well, friends an' foes, ol' Susan Delacourt put up a twitterin' tweet how she'd like to see some new lyrics to ol' Gord Lightfoot's Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald…
Abuse of Power
I am so angry these days I find it hard to blog without immediately breaking into a stream hateful profanity so for the most part I’ve just remained silent. Today…
If I Had a Billion Dollars
(with apologies to the Ladies) If I had a billion dollars (If I had a billion dollars) I'd build you a lake (I would build you a lake) If I…
Control Freak Steve
It's no surprise that Father Knows Best Harper has been using a tightly controlled message strategery to muzzle his ministers and anyone who represents his government or that they've tried…
Control Freak Steve
It’s no surprise that Father Knows Best Harper has been using a tightly controlled message strategery to muzzle his ministers and anyone who represents his government or that they’ve tried…
Control Freak Steve
It's no surprise that Father Knows Best Harper has been using a tightly controlled message strategery to muzzle his ministers and anyone who represents his government or that they've tried…
Control Freak Steve
It’s no surprise that Father Knows Best Harper has been using a tightly controlled message strategery to muzzle his ministers and anyone who represents his government or that they’ve tried…
Death of a party
The hearty partisans don’t like one another. The ground troops work against each other. The voters believe that the parties are different. But the leadership, i.e. those in the know,…
The Crisis In Gaza — An International Tipping Point
If, and as long as between the Jordan and the sea, there is only one political entity, named Israel, it will end up being either non-Jewish or non-democratic… If the…
#VoteTOin27: First candidates event this Thursday
I’m pleased to let you know that this Thursday is the first all-candidates event of the campaign. I say “event,” because this is decidedly not a straight-forward debate. Instead, my…
Pixies pulling out of Israeli show = "cultural terrorism": promoter
Stuck here out of gasOut here on the Gaza StripFrom driving in too fast--The Pixies (River Euphrates)These are lines that will not be sung in Tel Aviv, now that the…
Haldimand "Sweet Dividend"
Haldimand Hydro dividendBy Jim KnisleyNewsJun 02, 2010Albert Marshall, chair of Haldimand Hydro, presented Mayor Marie Trainer with a $691,445 dividend cheque on Monday.The dividend is up 21 per cent from…
Haldimand "Sweet Dividend"
Haldimand Hydro dividend By Jim Knisley NewsJun 02, 2010 Albert Marshall, chair of Haldimand Hydro, presented Mayor Marie Trainer with a $691,445 dividend cheque on Monday. The dividend is up…
Haldimand "Sweet Dividend"
Haldimand Hydro dividendBy Jim KnisleyNewsJun 02, 2010Albert Marshall, chair of Haldimand Hydro, presented Mayor Marie Trainer with a $691,445 dividend cheque on Monday.The dividend is up 21 per cent from…
Haldimand "Sweet Dividend"
Haldimand Hydro dividend By Jim Knisley NewsJun 02, 2010 Albert Marshall, chair of Haldimand Hydro, presented Mayor Marie Trainer with a $691,445 dividend cheque on Monday. The dividend is up…
Mergers, Coalitions and Fear
There has been a lot of talk in the past week or so about the possibility of some kind of political alliance between the LPC and the NDP. Mr. Ignatieff…
Haldimand "A Rumour is a Rumour"
I read with interest an article in the Sachem this week in regards to the ground-breaking ceremony and the fundraising efforts for the new Dunnville Arena.As reported in the paper,…