Platform pieces
I haven't even read this yet, so I'll save substantive commentary until after my yard work is done. But there is a bit of chatter about it on twitter (check…
I haven't even read this yet, so I'll save substantive commentary until after my yard work is done. But there is a bit of chatter about it on twitter (check…
What startled visitors at Mount Rushmore this morning.
Gotcha! Britain’s Private Eye magazine satirizes the Murdoch Fambly Saga across the Pond. Nothing like the Eye in Canada, more’s the pity! (Where is Michael Bate now that we need…
WouldYouBuyAUsedCarFromThisGovernmentVilleIn my opinion, based on their words, deeds and actions, they are.And, in the opinion of Sean Holman, it doesn't even matter any more one way or the other because…
The debt deal that is currently being rushed to in the last few days before a default. This deal supports 1 trillion in cuts first over the next decade then…
The Calgary Herald’s idea that international governments should negotiate with Canada as one government to another, rather than returning Canada to colonial status where the country can benefit from the…
The Calgary Herald’s idea that international governments should negotiate with Canada as one government to another, rather than returning Canada to colonial status where the country can benefit from the…
The Calgary Herald’s idea that international governments should negotiate with Canada as one government to another, rather than returning Canada to colonial status where the country can benefit from the…
The Calgary Herald’s idea that international governments should negotiate with Canada as one government to another, rather than returning Canada to colonial status where the country can benefit from the…
…but today’s National Post carries a headline that made me do a doubletake to find out if it was about a real story or just an analogy for the Great…
Although there certainly wasn't a lot of merriment around the gravy fountain at my election night party last October, the one consolation I took from Rob Ford's victory was that…
This and that for your long weekend reading.- I'm not ordinarily a huge fan of spending much time in the present focusing on the past. But Dan Gardner's suggested label…
A visit to Orwell's Bastard motivated me to seek out the wisdom of Orwell himself, to find guidance to our troubled times. Revisiting the wisdom of great people long past…
The dust slowly settles over the political heart of the great American nation, and dimly through it we can sense the outline of a strategy crafted by a veritable fox…
According to the Toronto Star at least.Apparently Tim Hudak was or is against abortion and that has everybody up in arms.Except for may be voters.Look at it this way: the…
To plug the TV back in OWN announced that they have hired Rosie O'Donnell to host a daily talker and they are going to perpetually run re runs of Oprah.For…
Campaigns against tar sands production have grown rapidly over the last four years. From the relative obscurity in Alberta to an international lightning rod for people trying to address all…
25 years of AIDS prevention posters, which is to say, where health education and great graphic design meet. From an exhibit at the Art Directors Club, New York City. On…
The Star’s Heather Mallick says it best: “I am warning those who want Canadian women to lose their right to abortion that this will not be a skirmish. It lives…
We Canadians just love believing fictions about ourselves especially when they allow us to climb up on high and sneeringly look down on others from a position of perceived superiority.Well…