Note To The Birdman…
. ….Prove It. “He’s been workin’ real hard trying to make his hands clean….” (almost)Bruce Buried deep beneath the lede of J. Fowlie’s blockbuster in the VSun today… …On the…
January 2012
Jonathan Scott: A Progressive & Responsible Party
During and since the Ottawa convention, there has been a lot of soul searching about what it means to be a Liberal. I realise I keep returning to this question.…
Nokha Dakroub: Women in Politics and the Politics of being a Woman
I’ll start this one by stating that this is definitely coming from my subjective experience. And for once, that actually counts for something. I’m a woman who is involved in…
On domestic assault, misogyny and xenophobia
The first-degree murder conviction of three members of the Shafia family brings the number of so-called “honour killings” in Canada to 16 since 2002. It would seem that most of…
Publicly Funded Oil R&D
If there is one monolithic industry that could afford to do its own Research & Development (R&D) into cleaning up its significant “associated byproducts” (AKA toxic waste). But they don’t…
Second verse, same as the first!
*begin rant* I’m the Prime Minister I am, The Prime Minister I am, I am, I have a strong, stable, national Conservative majority government; Do as I say and not…
Muskrat Falls: more pesky details #nlpoli #cdnpoli
Tom Adams’ blog post is attracting much attention in Newfoundland and Labrador on Monday. No surprise in that, given that Adams’ did some calculations of water flows and came to…
Did NATO’s Libyan "Liberation" Blow-Up In Their Faces
During NATO’s bombing campaign to dominate and destroy the Libyan revolution liberate Libya last year, I wrote that their real interests lie with intervening into the Arab Spring in such…
Mending the Past
I was taken, by a Roman Catholic priest, in broad daylight, right in front of my parents! We were at our summer camp near Naujaat, a tiny settlement on the…
Low Income and the Age of Eligibility for OAS
To reprise a now topical earlier blog, hiking the age of eligibility for OAS will have the biggest impact by far on future seniors who are in low income. Many…
I am my own grandpa, legal version #nlpoli
This one seems tailor-made for the legal geniuses who came up with the ;aw in this province that allows you to vote in an election that doesn’t exist to fill…
@NickKouvalis tweets about transit, politics and @TTCchair @KarenStintz | #TOpoli
You remember him, don’t you? Ran a successful campaign for Rob Ford, now the principal at Campaign Research. Related posts: @dmrider cuts through the #TeamFord spin | #TOpoli #TObudget In…
Spin Doctors – MP pension reform
Happy Monday! This week in The Hill Times, the Spin Doctors were asked to opine on whether MP pensions are in need of reform. Here’s what I have to say.…
The Assault on the OAS is the Beginning of an Attempt to Strengthen Neoliberal Principles
Yesterday on CTV Question Period, Dan Gardner’s argued that it a was good thing to raise the entry level for the OAS by at least two years because everybody else…
Harper and Old Age Security: Lessons from Mulroney and Chrétien Majorities When Public Opinion Was Heard
It’s always a bit indelicate for somebody of my age to start complaining about changes in the old age security system since I’m hardly a disinterested party. But Stephen Harper’s…
Excited Delirium Chapter 67: Aftershocks: China Scene of Devastation
Excited Delirium Chapter 67, where China experiences a massive quake created by our villians.
Data mining and politics
An interesting read about US Political Parties and data mining — despite some legal issues here (PIPEDA for one) I am sure we'll see this here too: The Co-op and…
In Which Climate “Skeptics” Drop the Lysenko Bomb. No, I’m Not Kidding….
Lysenko_in_field_with_wheat.jpg There has been a much justified uproar over last week’s Wall Street Journal op-ed, in which a group of scientific “skeptics” reiterate the old line that we don’t have…
What the Amanda Trujillo Case Tells Me About Nurses Behaving Badly
Amanda Trujillo can take cold comfort that her situation is not unique. In the two years and odd months I have posted on this blog, I have written about six…