Three MF Amigos split up #nlpoli
Liberal leader Kevin Aylward may have personally been waffling about Muskrat Falls a week or so ago, but his position has shifted: An Aylward led government would immediately halt all…
August 2011
On gullibility
I'm pretty sure I've read columns and articles purporting to be written by Murray Mandryk over a period of several years. But I'm having trouble making sense of that recollection…
Before the Revolution
On a hot August afternoon, a few years before the Revolution, Winston sat in his cubicle on the fifth floor of the Department trying to connect the dots. Connecting dots…
US State Department Declares Keystone Pipeline Low Risk
TransCanada Corp's proposed Keystone XL pipeline to move Athabasca Tar Sands bitumen to Gulf Coast refiners cleared a big hurdle today. The US State Department reported the venture poses "no…
"Twinkle, twinkle little star"
Planet could be massive diamond Edmonton Journal , Aug 26, 2011 LONDON - Astronomers have spotted an exotic planet that seems to be made of diamond racing around a tiny…
Dick Cheney: A war criminal
He stands behind torture and waterboarding. Waterboarding is indeed a war crime and it is one of the many war crimes this evil creature has committed. Visit msnbc.com for breaking…
HST Referendum…The Final Countdown
AllTheWaitingThatFitsWithoutOldMagazinesVille 10:50am...Interesting how, as the moment gets close the TwitVerse always seems to jump the shark...Kinda like how the Watercarrier goes to the phones for a plant. 10:45am...Everywhere it's all…
Buskerfest
Where I was Thursday. I’m not very good at writing art review-style critiques using high-flown language, but I can say that I enjoyed Buskerfest a lot. There’s a bit of…
David Menzies Shows How Fast Racist Lies Travel The World
Racist code words and lies, Menzies is an excellent example of "objective journalism." I was sent an article this morning from August 5, written by a freelance journalist named David…
F-35 Grounded, Again
The Pentagon has just announced it is again grounding the F-35 fleet, the third time this year.The 20 operational test and training aircraft were ordered parked Wednesday until engineers and…
Jack’s Final Message is a Recipe for Disaster
“My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.”…
Rick Perry Commercial for presidency
He gives the honest depiction of who he is. :)
What Adam Smith Didn’t Know. The "Invisible Hand" of the Market is Holding a Knife to Our Throats.
We weren't supposed to have to worry about such things. The "market" was supposed to be self-regulating, self-correcting. Adam Smith told us as much and, after all, he was a…
The Court must be very careful to ensure only admitted evidence is considered at trial
R. v. Smith, 2011 ONCA 564 deals with the unfortunate situation where materials not admitted into evidence were considered at trial. Specifically, a transcript of an interview found its way…
Peter Worthington in NP: Democracy? We don’t need no stinkin’ democracy.
Remember a time when the right loved democracy. It was their calling card, at least on paper. That is until the Middle East - the Muslim Middle East - came…
You, sir, are no Jack Layton.
“Why does God take a good guy and leave us with the likes of …” a good friend uttered, only slightly embarassed by the anger betrayed by his observation. Indeed.…
The Onion comes to Canada. Sun’s Mark Bonokoski on Jack Layton.
I'm stealing this directly from Dan Gardner. It's too perfect to leave on the Twitter floor.This video defines 'blowhard' - Mark Bonokoski in a jealous rage over the attention given…
Riots, demonstrations and new agencies of change
An angry demonstration virus spreads to country after country in response to negligent and callous political leaders who have ignored the basic needs of their citizens. Instead, they have bowed…
WikiLeaks: Germany’s Solar Pullback Underway?
An interesting, and unclassified perspective on the German political landscape two years ago. Feed In Tariffs are responsible for Germany leading the world in solar PV technology and adoption. Ontario…
Open Data and New Public Management
This morning I got an email thread pointing to an article by Justin Longo on #Opendata: Digital-Era Governance Thoroughbred or New Public Management Trojan Horse? I'm still digesting it all…