You all know how I feel about advertising. Usually it's not the ads themselves that drive me nuts, but their massive proliferation: that everything in our field of vision and…
He's too busy exploiting them for his own ends.I could go on.
Our political panel on the CBC Morning Show was a bit of fun. Thanks to former Premier Tom Rideout and Dr. Holly Pike for putting up with me and, of…
Summer's over, and hopefully more, and more substantive, posts will soon follow. After this one.
During the current provincial election you are going to hear a lot about natural resources and the need to spend the money that comes from it on all sorts of…
Hope everyone had a great long weekend. Apologies to (ir)regular readers for another content lapse. I've been tweeting more than blogging of late. Follow @mark_watton for more.In the meantime, a…
I have been told many times, during countless conversations, that politicians can never be trusted, that they are in some sense different than common folk, different than average Canadians. Unfortunately,…
It being Labour Day yesterday, the various parties put out statements. The Liberals’ statement was, shall we say, “secular,” not mentioning unions or the labour movement, but does speak about…
Good Morning to my readers!!! Today is September 6, 2011 and in exactly 1 month we have ourselves a provincial election!! October 6th 2011: The provincial election that may decide…
Rivals: Conservative leadership candidates Ted Morton, left, and Doug Horner, right, (warily?) chat moments before the leadership forum in Red Deer last Thursday. Below: Horner, Morton, Gary Mar, Alison Redford,…
The Government of British Columbia, has for the past 8 years, directed BC Hydro to increase provincial power generation (contracting with IPPs) and transmission capacity to serve a yet-to-materialize provincial…
The Government of British Columbia, has for the past 8 years, directed BC Hydro to increase provincial power generation (contracting with IPPs) and transmission capacity to serve a yet-to-materialize provincial…
It is axiomatic in warfare that you should never get involved in a war on two fronts. A key feature of Harper’s strategy since 2006 has been to frame the…
I've been a union supporter since I was seventeen, when I got a summer job at a mine in Northern Ontario.Where it was explained to me by some of the…
Welcome to September! Adam is back west, the nights are beginning to get cold, and frosh have returned to Carleton. Tune in at 7am to see me kick off my…
(Title of famous play by Italian playwright Eduardo De Filippo. To my knowledge, it was not inspired by his own PhD defence) Dear fellow Committee Members, as the appointed Chair…
And any little criticism of Israel is an invitation to be called an anti-Semite.. It's the official position of the 'Harper Government'!That is not just disturbing, it's your weapon against…
Video. Sing along! Course language. You were fugging warned. Eh? I need 25 words for this to post. Gotta talk to the webmistress about this.
A non-Buddhist skeptical atheist with background in psychology, scientific research, healthcare and mindfulness meditation shows how many of the central tenets and practices of Buddhism can appeal to other skeptics.
... as the Globe and Mail reports, and with the Labour Day Weekend drawing to a close, Brian Topp's "recusal" from setting NDP leadership rules continues unabated. You'll get tired…
