Deeply corrosive changes
Call to end ‘corrosive’ top pay deals, Brian Groom, Business and Employment Editor, Financial Times, November 21, 2011 Excerpts: Executive pay should be radically simplified to halt spiralling awards that…
November 2011
Mallory is sleeping on her own tonight
Second night in a row. I don’t want to jinx it, but it looks as though this whole sleeping on her own thing might take. Because I have said it…
Peter Kent, ignorant SupposiTory hack
Q. How does one get to be Minister of the Environment without any scientific knowledge whatsoever? A. By being a faithful, appointed HarpoCon hack beforehand, and then coasting into office…
The End of the Alberta Liberal Party…. Again
So, despite the election of a new leader who leads in opinion polls on the biggest issue in the province as the “most trusted” to handle the issue, the Alberta…
You guys have a majority.. why hide behind a Private Members Bill?
That’s my only real question of this particular reversal/manoeuvre on Section 13 regarding hate speech and the Human Rights Tribunal. I’m not at all surprised they’re doing this, even if…
Occupy Toronto – it is the stuff of middle class Canada
I am about as 1% as you can get. I carry a briefcase, wear a suit and have a well-trimmed beard. In fact Global TV interviewed me with the clear…
Huntsville tops The Economist’s list of "World’s Most Livable”
The small Ontario resort town Huntsville was named The Economist‘s “World’s Most Livable City”, displacing last year’s winner Melbourne, Australia. Huntsville earned the citation thanks to an abundance of federally-provided…
Macleans Hands Bob Rae The…
…Redshirt, whilst pretending to honor him. Just shows how the MSM will attempt to hobble any leadership bid by the former Ontario Premier. This award is the equivalent of being…
Occupy Ottawa issued eviction notice, vow to resist
Occupy Ottawa is under attack! The National Capital Commission (NCC) served the movement with a notice of eviction from Confederation Park earlier today. The peaceful Occupiers are required to vacate…
Occupy: Why Voting Isn’t Enough
Overhead view of the Occupy Toronto encampment, St. James Park (from Torontoist) Al Gore's book, "The Assault on Reason" is one of the best treatises on American democracy I've ever…
Occupy: Why Voting Isn’t Enough
Overhead view of the Occupy Toronto encampment, St. James Park (from Torontoist) Al Gore’s book, “The Assault on Reason” is one of the best treatises on American democracy I’ve ever…
Occupy: Why Voting Isn’t Enough
Overhead view of the Occupy Toronto encampment, St. James Park (from Torontoist)Al Gore's book, "The Assault on Reason" is one of the best treatises on American democracy I've ever read.…
Occupy: Why Voting Isn’t Enough
Overhead view of the Occupy Toronto encampment, St. James Park (from Torontoist) Al Gore’s book, “The Assault on Reason” is one of the best treatises on American democracy I’ve ever…
Last Week on As Quebec Turns….
The political drama in the province of Quebec these days is probably some of the most complicated in the world, involving prickly voters with nationalist sentiments who are tired of…
beyond occupy: out of the parks, into our lives
Shortly after the Occupy Movement began to make headlines, my friend and comrade Dr. J wrote this on his blog your heart’s on the left: Is occupation a tactic or…
Worth noting
A view on Liberal renewal from Andrew Coyne: How then to carve out a distinctive case for the Grits? The answer will lie as much in the way the party…
The Media Is Not Your Friend
It’s November 21st, 2011 and I thought I would change pace a little bit and talk about something I recently got more exposure of. Mental health awareness and the utter…
Six mindboggling things about NCC’s eviction of Occupy Ottawa
With crackdowns against Occupy protesters in New York, Vancouver and other Canadian cities in recent days, we knew this moment of force and madness would come to Canada’s capital. Today,…
Occupy Vancouver teardown. Live photo blog.
3:15 “You staying?” “That’s the future tense. This is the present tents”.
He was a skater boy…
24 hours in the life of Tony Clement. Let’s see how it shapes up these days. First, there’s more bad news on the G8 file: The Canadian Press came out…