Insite Goes To The Supreme Court
What is Insite? Opened in 2003. Operates in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Addicts can inject illicit drugs (such as heroin) in a safe environment. This is part of a holistic harm-reduction…
2011
Trail motion deferred…
Quick note: town council has deferred a motion naming the trail on top of the berm beside the Shipyards after former leisure services director Peter Dunbar. Councillor Ian Chadwick asked…
I don’t live in the Annex …
... but I'd be willing to part with some serious coin for a lapel button reading "Flippant Annex Secularist." The money quote from Jason Kenney, in a Star piece from…
Try Proactive Disclosure, Elizabeth May
Noted on Twitter just now, a tweet from Elizabeth May via her mobile device: @ElizabethMay Crazy weekend back and forth from BC to Cape Breton for a local hero's memorial…
Hey Liberals, forget the English French English French thing….pick the best leader
Contrary to what some think, I'm not a member of the Liberal party...So card holders take this as the opinion of an interested individual, but not from someone who's spent…
Real Estate at the tipping point – More voices predicting major correction
Want to be popular? The most recently available statistics say 70% of Canadians are owners of real estate, so if you're looking to win friends talk bullish about the housing…
Liberals limp into their future. . . …
I love this stuff. It really is priceless. The first major action of the Liberal Party of Canada in its process of rejuvenation is to bypass their own constitution. Classic!…
So, I’m in the Toronto Star…
Susan Delacourt of the Toronto Star has quoted my blog post. What is a political party anyway? Given that there are so many ways for politicians to connect directly with…
Premier’s Council for Economic Strategy Report is Some Kind of Wonderful
Premier Stelmach gathered together and challenge twelve of the most thoughtful minds you can imagine to actually imagine the reality we face as Albertans to ensure our prosperity from now…
It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue
LeaveYourSteppingStonesBehindSomethingCallsForYouVilleSo.If Christy Clark is a Liberal.....Why, exactly, are all her campaign signs blue?.
Speak
Since the story broke abut African migrants forcibly dying off the coast of Libya, abandoned by NATO’s humanitarian mission, so many trite remakes have been made. The most common is…
After an election about personalities, not policies, we can and must do better
We have just witness an election which while historic in many ways was not one of any significance in terms of a discussion of actual issues or policies. The political…
On a Blue Sea Burns an Orange Fire Lily
Don’t be poor. Don’t be gay. Don’t be a woman; we own your womb. Don’t be an artist. Don’t be a river or a tree. Don’t struggle; there is no…
An open letter to new MPs
Dear new MPs, Congratulations on being elected! You've every right to be excited - as a fellow Canadian who is hoping that the house can be changed, I'm excited too.…
When is bad financial management good financial management?
Consider two events and the responses to these events by two different governments. The events are remarkably similar. A party is elected to government at a time when the economy…
Town going koo-koo bananas…
UPDATED… … and, it appears, it only took six months into this new term of council… Exhibit No. 1: At this moment (about 1:30 in the afternoon on Monday), two…
The Case Of The Lazy Journos
It really seems like the message has been set: the new NDP MPs are young and inexperienced and as a result, we will have an official opposition full of fresh…
The Case Of The Lazy Journos
It really seems like the message has been set: the new NDP MPs are young and inexperienced and as a result, we will have an official opposition full of fresh…
Shifting Blame
I suspect that the 24% of Canadians who gave Stephen Harper his majority don't read Paul Krugman. But, as Mr. Harper and his acolytes rest smugly in their certitude that…