Yet Another Poll Showing The Same Thing Yet Again
Abacus data is not being known for its originality, that's for sure (despite their "Not Your Average Pollster" claim).Their current results put the Conservatives at 38%, the NDP at 32%,…
2011
Tea Party is racist
A study by the university of Notre Dame has removed any doubt. It has only changed its uniform otherwise it is just another white supramist group with a tiny number…
Wait a minute. Does this make Tim Hudak cool?
News Flash! Ontario Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak says he smoked dope in his youth. And, he inhaled! Mr. Hudak made the admission on Thursday in response to questions from…
Britain’s class struggle and the proclivity to riot
The British lower classes, like those elsewhere, have for a very long time expressed their grievances with riot against the established order, going back to the Poor riot of 1196,…
Computers do not ruin physics…
… physicists ruin physics (bumper sticker — I doubt if it exists, but it should) The efficacy of a computer simulation (or of any other numerical computation) in predicting the…
Offshore board responds to helicopter inquiry report
From the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board : The Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board (C-NLOPB) today responded to the final report of the Offshore He...
Go Alex Neve Go! "First it was Jason Kenney. Now it’s Margaret Wente."
Jane Taber clutches her pearls over Amnesty International's reproachment of just not Jason Kenney but now fellow Globe & Mail hack Margaret Wente. Going after a Conservative government official is…
Ars Technica: Canada poised to say goodbye to online privacy & security
Privacy commissioners, academics, digital rights advocates, and former Conservative ministers have all voiced their concerns about Lawful Access. At the very least, oversight and caution must guide such sweeping, invasive…
Ask Your Mom or Ask Your Dad
A quick hit on Ontario PC leader Tim Hudak on pot, with the news that he's "gotten high", presumably on some pretty "fly doobies" in his distant past (he's only…
Can You Help Me With My Complaint Against Sun News Network and Michael Coren?
I am reproducing the correspondence I just received from the CRTC regarding my complaint against Sun Tv regarding Michael Coren's recent racist comments. As you will see from the note,…
No to the Euro Bond but Yes to the UK’s Social Bond?
Chancellor Merkel turned aside Sarkozy's request for consideration of the much vaunted "Euro Bond", arguing that it really amounted to the stronger EU countries guaranteeing the debt of the weaker…
For the Record: The Gazette Says Now to Making the Armed Forces "Royal"
The Montreal English language daily The Gazette fell all over itself welcoming William and Kate, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge a few weeks ago, so you might think it…
"we work to buy things that are built to die so that we must work to buy more things that will break"
Two weeks ago, my coffee maker broke. It was a electric percolator (I wrote about my preference for it here), made by Cuisinart. It's the third such percolator I've had…
Study: religion to be extinct in Canada and eight other nations
Why neither Bachmann and Perry will win in 2012 or any other year.Why Harper keeps his fundamentalism under wraps while he desperately and quietly keeps religion as an important player…
Absent a statutory provision, no court has any jurisdiction to entertain an appeal
R. v. R.V.F., 2011 NSCA 71 deals with a case where the Crown failed to elect expressly as to summary or indictable procedure in a youth matter. In dealing with…
The Royal We
I’m not entirely sure what to make of the re-renaming of the “Navy” and “Airforce”. I feel like I should have a strong opinion about it. I’m admittedly a traditionalist,…
The Royal We
I'm not entirely sure what to make of the re-renaming of the "Navy" and "Airforce". I feel like I should have a strong opinion about it. I'm admittedly a traditionalist,…
The Royal We
I’m not entirely sure what to make of the re-renaming of the “Navy” and “Airforce”. I feel like I should have a strong opinion about it. I’m admittedly a traditionalist,…
Remembering Gideon Rosenbluth
Below is the text of the obituary for Gideon Rosenbluth, a renowned progressive economist and inspiration to us at the PEF, and a past president of the Canadian Economics Association.…
Mount Allison University Video Playlist for New Students
If you read this blog regularly you no doubt are familiar with Mount Allison's newest video series: 20 Tips for first-year students. Below is a convenient player that has all…