NDP leadership candidate Thomas Mulcair NDP MP and leadership candidate Thomas Mulcair has staked his leadership bid on the support of the NDP’s remaining environmentalists by pegging ‘sustainable development’ as…
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was…
…others call them Job Creators: America’s growing drone operations rely on hundreds of civilian contractors, including some, such as the SAIC employee, who work in the so-called kill chain before…
"I made a gift for you" (click to enlarge) One of my children wrote this on my window yesterday. I will take it as my motto for 2012. Each day…
Tis the season for ‘best of” lists. So, to quote Julie Andrews, here are a few of my favourite things of this past year: Best book on the coming paradigm…
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HeadsTheyWin TailsWeLoseVille Norm Farrell, along with every shiny, happy business page in N. America, has the story. _____ Although, to be clear, Norm tells it a little differently. .
Assorted content to end your year. – Paul Krugman once again laments the determination of anti-government fundamentalists to avoid learning the lessons that should have become glaringly obvious over 70…
A story you won’t hear from the Usual Suspects. In the grand scheme of things, of course, this anecdote is no more important than this one in assessing the realities…
The year that will end at midnight tonight held some excellent things, but as I noted in our holiday blog, in some cases the only appropriate reaction was “be careful…
Recently Tang Yingnian, Chief Secretary for Administration of Hong Kong, inspected China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda Ya’an Bifengxia Base. If you notice the panda on the…
Not literally, of course… but as you can see from nipped and tucked Scientoligist Greta Van Susteren’s year-end look back at the race to become the Republican presidential nominee, there…
Hot on the heels of the Harper government’s capitulation to U.S. Steel in Hamilton, yet another failure by Industry Canada to protect the interests of Canadians is evident in the…
Former MP and Politics & Pulpit author takes a look at the dilemma facing Syrian Christians: The Scottish writer William Dalrymple says that Syria has been a kind of oasis…
The federal government has failed to take up an historic opportunity to lock in ultra low interest rates on long term Government of Canada bonds. Normally – as outlined in…
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The historian Garry Wills once observed that Richard Nixon wanted to be president not to govern the nation but to undermine the government. The Nixon presidency was one long counterinsurgency…
The winners of the 2011 Canadian Law Blog Awards have been announced. Congratulations to Erik Magraken’s B.C Injury Law Blog, named as Canada’s best of 2011, and to all winners…
The reality of her world Making the world safe for sexism Monkey Cage Round-up The Top Ten for Eleven Undisclosed risk Familiar Furrows The Scribbler’s Picks for 2011 Tory angst…
