CBC Radio column: Time to change Elections Canada’s arcane rules
In this alberta@noon column on CBC Radio One with host Donna McElligott I talk about Elections Canada’s ban on reporting the results of a federal election in a time zone…
May 2011
Quebec NDP: The Kids [Could Be] All Right
Monday was an exciting night for Quebec university NDP clubs, as a number of members of their executives were elected to the House of Commons, amidst a wave that elected…
Big Bwana – A Song for the Stephen Harpers of the World (including you, Gordon Campbell)
Writen and performed by Wednesday Jones. Filed under: Political Humour Tagged: big bwana, Gordon Campbell, song, Stephen Harper, youtube
Good news everybody!
Still on the Futurama theme. Couple of interetsing items in the news today. We have the Conference Board of Canada releasing their report on the ability of the Winnipeg and…
The Green Party and the 2011 Federal Election: My Observations
It’s been an interesting week in Canadian politics. I’ve fallen a little behind with my own analysis of the election that happened two days ago now. In my defence, I,…
Conservatives win majority
NDP places second, which is the first time a Canadian government has had an opposition party other than the Liberals or Conservatives. It’s certainly a disappointing result, but hardly unanticipated.…
Federal Election Reshapes Canada’s Climate Policy Landscape
History was made in Canada’s federal election on May 2. Conservative gets majority goverment while New Democrat serves as Opposition for the first time. How will this alter federal policies…
Alert! Episode 184
Canadian Dimension editors and regulars reflect on the outcome of the federal election and discuss how we must fight the Harper majority: John Cartwright (Toronto & York Region Labour Council);…
Imagine if the NDP had won a majority
What would the press and punditry be saying about this? That would be the tanking of the TSX over the last two days. Filed under: Canadian Politics
Krugman clarifies: modern Keynesians are no planners.
“I do think it’s useful to read Keynes. But Greg is right: modern Keynesianism is to be understood through the views of modern Keynesians, not by hunting through the original…
Finding a place for politics in the new Parliament?
Through a late surge of support that has redrawn the parliamentary battlelines, Canada’s brand of social democracy has been announced the official ideology of opposition for the first time. It…
MayDay 2011: 4 Years is Just the Beginning
4 year is just the beginning, folks.
Where I Am Now
Here's what I'm thinking right now about the election that just was, and the future. If I continue to blog going forward, I'll probably try to expand and improve on…
"You guys are hypnotized, no?" Blogger” Charles Leblanc Discovers Explanation for Conservative Win
Searching for Honest Journalism The NB blogger Charles Leblanc, known as simply "Blogger", may be the most honest journalist in the country. He may also have discovered the real reason…
Leash Laws are for Chumps: The Credo of the Dog Owning Sociopath
Over the course of the last decade, I’ve allowed myself to become something of a chubby haus frau. I derive considerable pleasure in planting myself in front of the computer…
Some coincidental feedback
I am at the garage for some work this morning. The owner, a Thornhill resident and I were chatting about the election. He told me that he was so incensed…
Opportunity Knocks: a return of civility
The outcome of the 1993 federal election was perhaps one of the most divisive and transformative elections on record. It ushered in an era of mudslinging, contempt, cheap partisan tricks…
Catch 22’s first look at the election…
This is a high level summary of campaign results in ridings identified by the Catch 22 campaign. Over the coming weekend, we'll publish an editorial. Then in a few weeks…
Montreal Simon says it even better
Just to reinforce my point about the partisan backbiting.I note this morning that Simon's got an excellent post addressing some of the same things, but he says it better than…
Martian Dougiamas on Moodle
Many people want the traditional locked down LMS, where students are seen as needing competencies and knowledge, where content is to be dumped, absorbed, and pumped out via tests. But…