The Price Of Moral Clarity
Historians will not be kind to Michael Ignatieff. They will point to the collapse of the Liberal Party under his leadership -- although, in truth, it was a long time…
October 2011
Andrea Horwath has another chance to show leadership but fails. Again.
Yesterday it was revealed that NDP candidate Helmi Charif had posted on his Facebook page that Liberal and Tory governments would allow kids to starve to death – equating the…
Star Article on Shark Finning
Having written previously on the inhumane and ecologically disastrous practice of shark-finning, I was pleased to discover in my morning read of The Toronto Star an article about the practice…
An Unconventional Performance
The New Hot 5, a New Orleans-style jazz band, plays on a small hill in France to an unusual, but attentive, audience: Have a great Saturday!
I got in an actual fight
Yesterday afternoon I was walking down Merivale Road, nursing a migraine, when the guy walking in front of me grabbed an election sign out of the grass and tossed it…
What are they hiding?
Recently MPGuy Caron called on the Commons public account committee to resurrect14 studies that were left unfinished whenParliament fell last March. Seven of the 14 are complete and justneed to…
Autism Reality Check: Huffington Post Now Misrepresents Autism Disorders
It is 6:40 am (Atlantic) time here in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. Conor, my 6 feet tall, 15 year old son with Autistic Disorder, is now relatively quiet after several…
My Bad
Storseth's private Member's bill to repeal section 13 of the Human Rights Act (C-304) was indeed introduced Friday. And it looks like an act, not a mere motion. I was…
Traffic for Election Week 2 #nlvotes #nlpoli
Traffic patterns are information that can tell you something. The most popular post in this second week of the election is about an alternative for Muskrat Falls. The next most…
Hate to Say I Told You So…
"As I mentioned when I talked about that, I said there were a number of backbench MPs I believed existed in the Conservative Party who would not take the leader's…
What a packed Friday looks like
Normally Fridays are pretty dull and useful only for burying embarrassing reports from the government. Not so yesterday – it was an extremely packed day that kicked off with that…
Insite: Now That The Supremes Have Spoken…
TheRealReasonMajoritiesMatterVille...Can The Howls Of "Activist Judges!" Be Far Behind?Regardless, it looks like the Framers of the Cons figure they can make hay (or at least change the channel away from…
What the Liberals Do
A picture is worth a thousand word. A cartoon, maybe five hundred. In any case, I think this is a great illustration of the talk versus the results of conservative…
Oh, dear
Sounds like Stephen Harper had another terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad week.
CGO requests “Clarification” of CRTC Request
Yesterday the Canadian Gamers Organization received an odd e-mail from the CRTC. I’m not prepared to accept the response we got today from the CRTC. There’s no logic or justification…
Musical interlude
Delerium feat. Sarah McLachlan - Silence