Canada and Burma: 2010 Highlights
2010 was spectacular with the release of Aung San Suu Kyi, but a disaster with the flawed election and nature’s havoc with Giri. We will continue to pursue peaceful means…
2011
Facts Matter In The Debate Over Water Fluoridation
It’s known as one of the top ten public health achievements of the 20th century; a “classic example of clinical observation leading to epidemiological investigation and community-based public health intervention;”…
UPDATED…Guess What Folks? Our Oil is Ethical!
No, I don’t believe the malarkey that our oil is ethical. The only thing this argument does is compare our bad practices to the worse practices of other nations. Our…
Tunisia and Algeria: North African States of Unrest
Reports of civil unrest and suicidal protests in Algeria and Tunisia these past two weeks are highlighting the precarious conditions under which many people across the world live: on the…
A new model for public policy debate?
Rudyard Griffiths and I wrote the below for the Guardian the week after the Munk Debates, and I forgot to post. I have worked on the debates for a couple…
In honor of our (unifying) hockey defeat
A FFIB from the past that deals with political hockey, which is somewhat apropos based on the how our politicians tried to use last nights, world juniors game for political…
Republicans Read the U.S. Constitution Aloud: A Pack of Tricks on the Dead
The Republican majority in the U.S. House of Representatives began its control of that august body by reading aloud the Constitution of the United States. Democrats jointed them in the…
Intermittent Blogging Ahead
Well, it looks like 2011 will be as bad as 2010, with regards to my professional life (among other things). (Yes, my mother died last June, but I don't expect…
Native Electronica
Check out this video for a track called "Pow Wow Riddim." It's from a Native electronic music crew called A Tribe Called Red:Pow Wow Riddim from Bear Witness on Vimeo.Their…
Newbie MP Fantino named to Conservative cabinet post
Newbie Member of Parliament Julian "Mallcop" Fantino was named to Cowboy Steve's federal cabinet at Rideau Hall yesterday. The country's newest MP is now its newest cabinet member, the minister…
Harper, Energy and the Environment: It’s the Politics, Stupid!
This is getting embarrassing. Up until recently, the best the Harper government could say about our dismal record on climate change, energy and the environment was that we were doing…
Harper, Energy and the Environment: It’s the Politics, Stupid!
This is getting embarrassing.Up until recently, the best the Harper government could say about our dismal record on climate change, energy and the environment was that we were doing better…
Harper, Energy and the Environment: It’s the Politics, Stupid!
This is getting embarrassing. Up until recently, the best the Harper government could say about our dismal record on climate change, energy and the environment was that we were doing…
Falcon Selling a Stale Bill of Goods to Teachers, Electorate
Kevin Falcon, believed to be a leading contender to replace Premier re-signate Campbell, has come forth with what can only be describe as the most arcane and idiotic of suggestions:…
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Follow A Conservative Or Lead With Liberals
When did having a dominating leader become a good thing? When did a political party, intended to represent the views of many, become valued only for the views of one?…
Boarder control: Eyes wide shut
"Love, even old love nestles itself into the space that two people hold each other with their eyes." These were my words, just a half dozen pages back, as I…
You Know You Are Living In A Corporatocracy …
... when your elected government begs Big Business interests to help them write and/or kill bills:Back there, Transport Minister John Baird (yes - this same John Baird) was caught privately…
Help save the CBC!
So I'm not too happy to announce that nothing really that interesting has been happening in my life recently. I haven't been working with YSB for a while, and I'm…
The Wee Shuffle
Today’s Cabinet Shuffle, necessitated by the retirement of Jim Prentice to move on to a job at CIBC, was as minor as it could have been. A replacement had to…