John Ivison from the National Post recently wrote a column calling out Liberal interim leader Bob Rae on his comparison of the Harper Progressive Conservatives to American Tea Partiers. Bob…
see http://bit.ly/rtk0SE for riding-by-riding estimates Liberal – 47 seats (35.8%) PC – 40 seats (34.4%) NDP – 20 seats (24.3%) Green – 0 seats (4.2%)
Courtesy of YVKE Mundial, an anniversary that could have gone a whole lot better: On the 190th anniversary of the independence of Honduras, former president and now co-ordinator of the…
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,…
First off, I would like to say: Big deal! So the liberal platform has been leaked by probably a conservative mole or some Julian Assange fan boy, but who really…
Despite the obnoxious debt clock parked outside John Milloy’s office in my local Kitchener-center riding and despite the local PC candidate Dave MacDonald's best efforts at convincing Kitchener residents to…
I remember asking one of my co-workers back in 2009 the question: If you were ever a part of a jury in two trials against men that have committed the…
Bet on Conservatives to always go against the crowd, trying to demonstrate originality but always doing so in the most egregious way, and you’ll never be disappointed. And this was…
http://www.economist.com/node/21529014Great article in The Economist about education reform and progress around the world, and Ontario is right at the top:“Ontario really is impressive,” enthuses Sir Michael Barber, former head of…
I should confess that when it first came out, I dozed off during the Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth. That's not the kind of admission you'd expect from someone who…
Things aren’t always as they seemLives ripped apart tend to leaveJagged edgesBetter tread carefullyShe’s not quite the womanYou knew back whenYour naivety made you creativeDon’t forget how I was helpless…
Things aren't always as they seemLives ripped apart tend to leaveJagged edgesBetter tread carefullyShe's not quite the womanYou knew back whenYour naivety made you creativeDon't forget howI was helpless when…
Things aren’t always as they seemLives ripped apart tend to leaveJagged edgesBetter tread carefullyShe’s not quite the womanYou knew back whenYour naivety made you creativeDon’t forget how I was helpless…
Tomorrow is an early morning and a long drive to Killarney Provincial Park. The car's packed. The boat is strapped onto the roof. Hope them foam blocks hold. Hope I…
A Norwegian news photo, taken by a surveillance camera, shows Anders Breivik in riot police gear (real, or fake?) shortly after having placed his car bomb in downtown Oslo. (Via…
Argh. Some time ago, one of my acquaintances was trying to cheer me up. She was trying to convince me that it is possible to turn positive into negative. She…
…so they can act like poor sports and declare that the online winner is a BIG FAT LOSER, by their Upstanding All-American American Apparel Standards. Nancy Upton, the gorgeous prankster…
The other day on his “700 Hundred Club” program, Pat Robertson made a most astounding pronouncement in response to a man asking what advice he should give to a “friend”…
friedman_quote.jpg In her famous book The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, author and activist Naomi Klein quotes the Godfather of free market capitalism, Milton Friedman, whom...
Montreal visual artist Bettina Forget is working on an art project in which she videos a random minute each day for a year. The videos will be edited into a…
