This Week in Alberta – Flanagan Gets Back in the Saddle
With an Alberta election on the horizon this spring, the Wildrose Alliance have brought on Tom Flanagan to manage their campaign. For those of you who have never heard of…
January 2012
Hiking the Retirement Age is the Wrong Answer to the Retirement Crisis
Raising the age of eligibility for Old Age Security/Guaranteed Income Supplement (OAS/GIS) benefits is the worst possible way to deal with the retirement income security crisis facing Canadians. Experts such…
What we talk about when we talk about conservatives
Never mind all the guff about Ronald Reagan. Reagan was an amiable-seeming father figure who did what his wife and her astrologer and Exxon told him to do. He regularly…
ebook download surges
Phenomenal, is all I have to say. Phenomenal. Honestly, I think this is great. It is far to easy to read this as though I intend irony or sarcasm, but…
Reclaiming the Mainstream – Comopolitan magazine gets the alt media treatment
100 Best Sex Tips of the Year. Bigger, Better Pleasure. Shrink Your Inner Thighs! The Smile That Gets You What You Want. The Sexy Confidence Men Can’t Resist. The above…
A Small Rant from Your Friendly X-ray Tech
A note sent to me from my favourite MRT (Medical Radiation Technologist). A reminder too, that nurses aren’t the centre of the universe, even if we think we are. Some…
Conservative fiscal prudence (snicker)
A second Conservative government agency with staff but no function has been discovered by the tenacious Greg Weston. Readers will recall Weston’s coverage of the Canadian Employment Insurance Financing Board,…
Media Literacy in PEI Schools
Would love to see PEI schools develop Media Literacy programs in Junior High, maybe even in Grade 6. My daughter is in Grade 6 and we talk about these types…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Friday, January 27, 2012
Here are the leading legal headlines for Friday, January 27, 2012 from Wise Law on Twitter : Costa passengers offered $14,460 for ruined cruise, trauma India’s 30-Year-Old Divorce Ends Rogers…
Full Of Himself
On the same day that the Globe and Mail reported on Stephen Harper’s “grand plan to reshape Canada,” and on Tony Clement’s announcement that the “budget axe could cut deeper,…
Uphold the Law on PEI
Before I forget, it’s Day 10, waiting for our Premier, Robert Ghiz and Liberal MP’s Sean Casey and Lawrence MacAulay to comment on Resolution #58. 10days since the PEI NDP…
When actions speak larger than words
Ten days ago, Prime Minister Stephen Harper was eagerly criticizing NDP leadership Thomas Mulcair over his French citizenship. The Prime Minister emphasized his Canada-first and always patriotism. In my case,…
Raging entirely by voice recognition
I wrote a article the other day for my blood using voice rec mission on my android phone and it is very impressive how so much is it was very…
On responsible management
Tobi Cohen’s report on fund-raising in the NDP’s leadership race ends up serving largely as an analysis of Nathan Cullen’s position and fund-raising to date due to his willingness to…
Crown in closing argument
In closing the Crown should not seek to sway by emotion but by logic and reason. Obviously in any trial there is some emotional response – that’s normal. But Crown…
More on raising the Old Age Security age eligibility
A brief follow-up to yesterday’s post on the possibility of a hike in OAS age eligibility here. Here is the first of many analyses likely to come along now that…
The old cabinet documents ploy #nlpoli #cdnpoli
Premier Kathy Dunderdale and her ministers refuse to hand over documents on more than $5.0 billion in public works spending by the Conservatives since 2004. The documents are cabinet secrets,…
Media Matters: US media favoured Keystone XL proponents over opponents by wide margin
No surprise here. With the exceptions of USA Today and the Los Angeles Times, every news outlet included in this study quoted or hosted more people in favor of the…
The news from Davos
From the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Stephen Harper delivered his earth-shattering speech about the future direction of the Canadian Economy. Harper told the gathered economic leaders – for…