Treating the supply cycle with contempt
The government introduced its fall budget implementation bill today – while the entire Finance Committee is currently on tour doing pre-budget consultations around the country. What’s more galling – is…
October 2011
Design Regina – Larry Beasley
We can fix Regina at the same time that the urban health and community issue is being better understood across Canada. The problem is that most people live outside of…
Capitalism’s nosedive. What happened to invention and innovation in the last half of the 20th century?
I’ve asked this question before, many times in fact in the last few decades. What happened to invention and innovation in the last half the last century? Think about the…
Belated random thoughts on political happenings
I've found myself too busy with work and what not lately to be blogging as much as I should be, so here's some short random thoughts on recent events until…
You Can’t Be Rich on Shattered Land
This song about fracking by Alex Hickey is pretty self-explanatory. Sad song and beautiful singing... Alex is enroute from her home in NS to a tour of a few stops…
“The Tories are not going to win. This campaign is all but finished"
Those are the words of Ipsos' John Wright.If Tim Hudak is worried about a Liberal-NDP coalition, there's only one way to prevent it at this point - and it's not…
Dept. of Unintentional Irony
Interim Liberal leader Bob Rae speaks out on the issue of suicide prevention as an important public health matter. Needless to say, committing suicide is a topic about which the…
Ontario’s Next Premier: Andrea Horwath
The media gave her scant attention. But that didn’t stop Ontario NDP leader Andrea Horwath from proving that she’s the best person to lead Canada’s economic and social heartbeat after…
The Sunny Way
The Sunny Way? This is, of course, one of Aesop’s fables and a favorite story of Wilfred Laurier. It’s a story about persuasion being superior to force, to working with…
Wall Street, Kiss Your Knackers Goodbye!
Filed under: Political Humour Tagged: bull, gelding, goodbye, image, neutered, New york, no balls, shears, steer, testicles, wall street, washintgon dc
More On Hudak and Abortion in Ontario
Well, I’ve been away for a while due to fact that I just started grad school three weeks ago and have been insanely busy, just getting into the swing of…
Hudak’s rally tonight in Vaughan
Ten minutes after the event was supposed to start. Really, really bad sign. I’m hearing that Team Tory could barely get 200 people to come see PC leader Tim Hudak.…
Today’s built-to-loot enterprises show their style
Chuck Collins is a senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies where he directs the Program on Inequality and the Common Good (www.inequality.org). Chuck is also a co-founder of…
McGuinty set for ‘historic three-peat majority’ in Ontario, poll suggests
Maybe. I hope this is true but I am far from convinced Conservative support is so low; and I still think the NDP may siphon off votes. It's not over…
Who are the Real Extremists?
The following is a copy of a letter to the Editor of the Sudbury Star (a Sun Media outlet), submitted by me on Wednesday, September 28, 2011. At the time…
NDP Finance Critic Peggy Nash’s motion passes unanimously
NDP finance critic hails symbolic economic victory over Tories - The Globe and MailIt's rare, and non-binding, but it's a positive step. The motion calls for "the government to act…
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the NEFC Development Plan
A new North East False Creek development report goes before council on Thursday. It has a lot of people talking and it isn't all favourable. Somehow over the many drafts…
Ipsos Gives OLP 10-point lead, supports Ekos
Wow, who would think you would see this from Ipsos Reid, on an incumbent premier who has not had the best eight year legacy attached to his name?A ten-point lead,…
The McGuinty Greenwash
“Liberals (McGuinty) are running on their green credit but most of their spending is going to the nuclear plan, so it’s a bit of a greenwash." - Greenpeace’s Shawn-Patrick Stensil…