CEOs and “Creating Value”
Today’s Globe and Mail carried a story on the front of the business section about Jason Underwood, CEO of Whiterock REIT (a real-estate development income trust). He earned $4.8 million…
2011
Big weekend in the ‘hood
Lots happening this weekend! ArtsPark on Saturday, and on Sunday the Marathon runners make their way through the 'hood. The full ArtsPark schedule has been posted on the HCA website.…
The Liberals and the Clouds of Spring
Look I realize it's been a wet Spring eh? There has been a cloud hanging over all our heads since Stephen Harper won his majority. And that if you're a…
Well-financed Rick Orman candidacy a grave setback to Ted Morton’s hopes
Beulah, peel me a grape! Alberta Conservative candidate Rick Orman aloft, with grapes on a silver tray and friends. This photo appeared in my in-box, source unknown. Below: Ted Morton.Question:…
On shadows
A couple of quick notes on the NDP's shadow cabinet announced today...The most intriguing set of announcements comes in the form of several up-and-coming MPs assigned to a counterintuitive set…
Jack Laytant Announces Team of Critics
Inspired by this story: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/05/26/pol-layton-shadow-cabinet.html
Environment Minister Sets Canada’s Carbon Policy
Environment Minister Peter Kent sets the tone of Canada’s carbon policy for the next four years in his first interview after the federal election that resulted in a Conservative majority.…
Back to it
I’ve taken a bit of a break from posting since the election – haven’t been terribly inspired by anything. But I, as a liberal Liberal, sure haven’t been spending my…
Put lying cops on the stand and make them do it for the record
Not that it should take the focus off Harper and McGuinty, who bear just as much culpability as municipal officials for the abuses that took place at last summer's G20,…
Ontario Tories promise to force manual labour on MPPs if they win election
TORONTO — Ontario could be the first province in Canada to force MPPs to earn their keep by picking up garbage along highways and cleaning graffiti from city walls if…
48Hour Green Film Contest @ Cannes
Cannes wrapped up last weekend with the Palme d'Or going to Terrence Malick's apparently slightly sprawling epic The Tree of Life. From what I've read, the movie looks to be…
Help Wanted
Blog site administrator still seeking: 1. Webmaster 2. Writers. 3. Sources close to Peter Mackay, Joe Clark, Kim Campbell, Elsie Wayne, or anyone else who thinks the CPC having 1m1v…
Anonymous: The Commons and the Last of the Outlaws?
The ongoing attacks on net neutrality constitute a new round of enclosures of the modern commons. If the original enclosure movements during 16th and 17th centuries in England signified the…
Welcome To Huffington Post – CANADA
Here's a big warm cyber welcome to the Huffington Post - Canada edition! Nice to see another progressive voice in Canada. What with Harper's Right wing crap about to hit…
Huffington Post Canada edition eh?
So I click over to the Huffington Post and a big pic of Stephen Harper greets me. “Oh,” I think, “the neighbours noticed we’re around.” They did, by launching a…
Video: Mainstream Plans New Farm Amidst Tanking Clayoquot Wild Salmon
A proposal from Mainstream Canada - the local subsidiary of Norwegian aquaculture giant Cermaq - for a new 56-hectare open net pen salmon farm in Clayoquot Sound threatens the UNESCO…
Wisconsin anti-union law ruled illegal
From the Progressive: Circuit Court Judge Maryann Sumi today ruled that Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s controversial anti-union law was illegal. “It is necessary to void the legislative actions flowing from…
Leaked Attack Ad: Education
So two people have passed me CDs with attack ads. I now have, in my possession, three attack ads blasting the Progressive Conservatives and then the Wildrose-. They’re well written,…
NDP On Quebec
The NDP leader Jack Layton said that Quebec would just need 50% +1 to be it's own country. That is just crazy. You can't just destroy and split up a…