The politics of quackery #nlpoli
Comedian Dara O’Briain has a routine someone has posted to youtube in which he lambastes advocates of ideas that have no foundation in facts. He lampoons the irrational. On that…
December 2011
Holes in MacKay’s credibility
Oh, Peter MacKay. After claiming that the helicopter ride he took from a fishing lodge to a waiting Challenger jet was part of a pre-ordained search-and-rescue exercise, new documents have…
Where the money goes – ICBC top 50 – 2010
Salary Expense Total 1 SCHUBERT, Jon President & CEO 449,201 55,570 504,771 2 KIRKNER, Art V-P, Field Services 315,824 188,681 504,505 3 PRIOR, Geri Chief Financial Officer 461,710 7,839 469,549…
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, KCVO, DL is often misquoted in that line. But misquoted or not Lord Acton was right. What's startling is how quickly the corruption…
Lies, Tell Us Lies, Tell Us Sweet Little Lies…
Source: CTV News: Emails Contradict MacKay on N.L. Chopper Flight Does anyone else remember when we talked about the issue of Challenger jet flights? Good, that will bring us all…
Free market, Canadian style
From J-Source.ca “New Brunswick is about to become the first place in Canada where readers must pay for local news. “The Irving-owned Brunswick News Inc. has decided that the era…
Using Open Data to Map Vancouver’s Trees
This week, in preparation for the International Open Data Hackathon on Saturday, the Vancouver Parks Board shared one neighborhood of its tree inventory database (that I’ve uploaded to Buzzdata) so…
"No ISA in BC" says BC Liberal Don McRae
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Attawapiskat: laying out the numbers
This excellent explanation of what happened to the so-called millions sent to Attawapiskat all over my little corner of the internet, but I want to share it anyway. Another inbound…
Ideological perfection, Fraser Institute style: why democracy must be destroyed in order to save it
A neo-Con think tank gets ready to save democracy by crushing democracy. A “fellow” of the Fraser Institute stands to the far right. Who’s to say if this is not…
the cast of alberta politics: the motion picture.
Politics in Alberta is not always easy for outsiders to understand. Forty years of uninterrupted Progressive Conservative majority governments have given the province a reputation of being a politically homogenous…
Songs In The Key Of My Kid’s Life
TheIncredibleBrightnessOf BeingVille The following five minutes that keeps on giving came to me, unexpected and out of nowhere, as an unexplained Email link… .
Peter MacKay and the Outraged General
Well if you remember, when we last left Peter Dumbo Mackay he was happily buzzing over Newfoundland, on his way back from a fishing trip, and claiming he was late…
Chris Hedges: Zero Point of Systemic Collapse | Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters
The cultural belief that we can make things happen by thinking, by visualizing, by wanting them, by tapping into our inner strength or by understanding that we are truly exceptional…
If Sleeping With a Chinese Spy Isn’t Grounds for Resignation, Lying About a Helicopter Won’t Be
It is, I think everyone now realizes, conclusively proven that Peter MacKay is a lying sack of shit. He lied inside and outside Parliament about the nature of the military…
Something that made me think “Huh?” on World AIDS Day
As I do every Thursday, I spent two hours late this afternoon with a group of gay men. We range in age from something like 35 to just over 60.…
The PM’s not so bold meeting announcement
From the PM’s site: “PM announces meeting with First Nations early in new year.” Looking like an executive in charge, scheduling a major meeting to respond to the unfolding crisis…
Shame on Canada! Shame on us all!
Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan tells an outright lie in this chance encounter on the stairs at the CBC. As if that is not bad enough, the Minister goes on…