Things go better with Koch!
The Koch brothers (not exactly as pictured above) would like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony, or at least the world's billionaires anyway. Unfortunately, the song they…
November 2011
Herman Cain is C(r)ooked
How despicable can one get to ask for sexual favours in exchange for a job prospect?Herman Cain, Mr. gospel music singer, puisly married for 50 yrs, serial harasser, all-round sleeze…
Koch Konnections (aka “If They Can Do It, We Can Too!”)
If the Koch Brothers can do it, we can (and should) too!
Bar association says Tory MPs should back off CBC access case until court rules
The Canadian Bar Association says a parliamentary committee should back off its campaign against the CBC until the Federal Court has a chance to rule on the issue.
Stop The Meter milestones: One year, one message, and over 500,00 engaged Canadians
Last week we celebrated not one, but two major milestones in our campaign to stop the pay-meter on Internet use. One year ago Tuesday, we launched http://StopTheMeter.ca in response to…
CBC in contempt of Parliament if it doesn’t produce documents Access Committee requests: Del Mastro by Tim Naumetz
MP Dean Del Mastro says the CBC has no choice but to hand over the documents to an in camera meeting of the Commons Access to Information and Ethics Committee,…
Big Revenue Increase for TV, Pay Specialty Channels, Industry Report Shows
Canada's TV broadcasters, specialty and pay channel operators have achieved their largest annual revenue increase in almost a decade.
Cain Accused of Messin’ with White Woman
At least Clarence Thomas' accuser, Anita Hill, was also black. Now Herman Cain has a real problem. His fourth accuser has come forward in the company of, wretch, attorney Gloria…
Prop Betting and Hedging Bets
As a poker player, talking about betting with non-poker friends often illustrates some pretty basic misconceptions with the process. Correcting some of these misconcep...
Beyond Platitudes
For a party desperate to stay on the political radar, the notion of "intense debate" is an underlying must. Ideas that challenge the status quo particularly attractive, not just in…
Explaining Gay Rights
Not exactly relevant in Canada, but still useful for dealing with your fundamentalist relatives over the holiday season.
Bill Moyers on What America Used to Mean
Bill Moyers looks back to his roots to find the greatness that was his United States of America:Henry and Ruby Moyers were “common laboring people.” My father dropped out of…
Inspector General To Investigate Keystone XL Conflicts
Hillary-farmer.png NRDC's Switchboard blog reports that the Inspector General will investigate the conflicts of interest and incompetence surrounding the Keystone XL pipeline permitting proce...
When The Enemy Capitulates …
You Don't Reposition Your Troops And Leave Yourself Open To Attack!__________A week ago, I published a series of post highly critical of how Liberals handled their response to the government's…
Sen. Bert Brown Confirms What PDO Readers Already Knew
Namely that Postmedia News got it wrong on the Senator’s new override proposal for a reformed Senate.Re: “Father of Triple-E Senate rethinks ‘equal’ part?; Proposal gives Ontario, Quebec veto power…
What I learned at the Climate Action Network’s Conference
Friday, November 4, 2011 On Tuesday and Wednesday of this week I was in Montreal, where I joined with elected officials, civil servants, labour activists, e...
Pte. Thomas Earl Butler: 17 March 1896 – 1 March 1917
It’s been over ninety-four years since my paternal grandmother’s brother, Tom, died on the World War One battlefields of France, roughly five weeks before the final assault on Vimy. Grandma…
Have a koch and a $mile ? ? ? ?
The right-wing-billionaire-zealot brother$ koch are about to fully engage their database war on the rest of the civilized world.Feature article in today's GuardianUK reveals the details: The secretive oil billionaires…
Prosperity Redux: a disappointing decision for the environment, First Nations and the EA process
Monday, November 7, 2011 Today, November 7, 2011, the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency (the Agency) announced that Taseko Mine Ltd.’s gold and cop...
Weaving Foreign Ministries into the Digital Era: Three ideas
Last week I was in Ottawa giving a talk at the Department of Foreign Affairs talking about how technology, new media and open innovation will impact the department's it work…