Seven Habits of Spectacularly Ineffective Politicians #nlpoli #cdnpoli
“Run government like a business” is an old line. Some people use it as a rallying cry for success and innovation. Others think of it as a recipe for disaster.…
January 2012
Alberta Mayor On B.C. Opposition To Northern Gateway Pipeline
“It’s kind of like the spoiled child syndrome. We’re not going to get , so we’re not going to do it…” B.C. For B.C.ers! Go back to Mordor, Blue Eyed…
Let’s debate science without scientific terms!
The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada is backing the call by Conservative MP to re-open the abortion debate – entirely through the back door – by debating on the criminal code…
Oil industry ramps up the pressure
As Ian Reid succinctly observes, the Vancouver Sun “has apparently merged with Encana’s communications department and is now almost desperately spinning the Northern Pipeline on their behalf.” Postmedia, the Sun’s…
Why Canadians Want The Worst Politics Of America
Canadians would support our own political institutions if we didn’t idealize worse ones. The last few years have offered an incredible contrast in politics between what interests Canadians and what…
Glenn Taylor quits his day job – now he has a few weeks to save the Alberta Party
Your blogger with Alberta Party Leader Glenn Taylor just after his election last May. Mr. Taylor’s election, that is. All your blogger’s ever been elected as is a “local legend.”…
Stephen Harper and the Great Choo Choo Run
Well I see that Great Choo Choo Leader is trying to put some distance between him and the lockout at the Electro-Motive plant in London, Ontario. Even though he once…
Late night
On the lighter side! A few fun moments there. Which we can now say are fun given that this candidate is in our rear view mirrors. See ya!
Peter MacKay marries singer Madonna
Federal Minister of Defence married American singer and actress Madonna Ciccone in a quiet ceremony over the New Year’s weekend. After a whirlwind and clandestine courtship, the couple tied the…
Wheelin’ Wednesdays…
AResolutionGoneBad RainSweptStreetsVille One of my real New Year’s resolutions (as opposed to the faux ones) is to ride more and drive less. I still ride everyday, but rarely all the…
I see the BC Liberals have learned from Harper’s Ignatieff attack ads
Watching the Canucks. Ad comes on real slick-like. I mean Conservative slick. It’s a BC Liberals ad attacking NDP’s Adrian Dix. I swear the ad could’ve been made by the…
Welcome to Canada’s new world of Haves and (mostly) Have Nots
Another generation's dirty effing hippie Stephen Douglas captures Harper’s new world order as it applies to Canada with a scalpel-like efficiency. Harper and his cadre of conservative ideologues share this…
Accuracy Matters: Primaries, Staggered Regional Voting Days & The Mainstream Media
In a column for the Globe and Mail, Rob Silver rightly points out that there is a lot of hype surrounding the Liberal Party’s biennial convention. Much of that hype…
Dissecting David Hahn….
StoppingSpinWithFacts ImagineThat!Ville Chris Montgomery is on the job again. This time she is working on the rotting carcass of an old Tyee-initiated FOI request from 2010 that is finally seeing…
Murray Dobbin Repost: This Year, Put the Country Ahead of the Party
As we enter the new year, the prospects for defeating the Harper government in 2015 seem uncertain at best. And yet if those who care about the country were musing…
Police Squad – from the Encyclopedia of Wildlife
Another replay, recycled from April 2010: Police are an extremely social animal. They exist as a social unit called a squad. Police travel and hunt in a group and perform…
Welcome to Canada’s new world of Haves and (mostly) Have Nots
Stephen Douglas captures Harper’s new world order as it applies to Canada with a scalpel-like efficiency. Harper and his cadre of conservative ideologues share this collective denial. In these hard…
The Great Oil War [Chapter 2] : Iran
In chapter 1 of what now may be considered the beginnings of a World-War III we discussed what was then the active military action against Libya. We covered economic hitmen…
API’s New ‘Vote 4 Energy’ Ad Campaign Is Thinly Veiled Election Year Bullying
API Vote 4 Energy.jpg American Petroleum Institute President Jack Gerard today announced the oil and gas industry’s latest election-year scare campaign to threaten the demise of the U.S. economy unless…