Niki Ashton at the City Arts Centre last night. Below: Post author Olav Rokne. Business forced me to be in our nation’s capital when Niki Ashton, the latest candidate for…
Deep in rewriting my novel about a pianist, I’m seeing music everywhere. The latest is this multiple choice chart that might give you some advice. I particularly like the sequence…
Found on G+, thanks to S.
(my pologies for nissing a day. I had computer problems. But I spoke sharply to it, so it is now working properly.) Since, once again, the Moncton Times and Tribune…
On Monday I voiced my support for Mike Crawley for LPC President, after profiling Crawley, Sheila Copps, Ron Hartling, and Alexandra Mendes over the past month. I mostly glossed over…
Did you hear Bob Rae’s rousing speech to caucus today? Was there any doubt that is sounded very much like a guy ready to go for the permanent Liberal leadership…
By unleashing strident propagandistic messages aimed nominally at environmentalists but really anyone opposed to or even questioning of the Gateway pipeline, the Harper Regime is playing a dangerous game in…
A new material that is inexpensive to produce is also good at absorbing CO2 emissions in the air. Hopefully we’ll see this material being applied to the medians on highways…
pinocchio.jpg I’ve been harping a lot lately on the fact-checkers, like PolitiFact, and how they too often fall for a type of phony journalistic “balance” that those of us who…
Sometimes a graph is worth a thousand words. A good example is a graph depicting Canada’s contribution to U.N. peacekeeping that appeared in the December 2011 edition of Mondial, the…
Preferential voting is a type of ballot structure used in several electoral systems in which voters rank candidates in order of relative preference. For example, the voter may select their…
Ruh roh! What do Danny Williams, Kathy Dunderdale and Sarah Palin have in common? They – and their bootlickers and wannabe bootlickers – all like to blame their own problems…
Yanno. I know we have been down this garden path before. The Harpercons do something really stupid. (Daily occurrence) Then when people react (the employers of the Government, to be…
Wow. Talk about the hypocrisy. So EthicalOil.org which has been leading the charge about how foreign money is influencing environmental groups and the regulatory process. But… apparently it refuses to…
You Schmuck! Times are tough for the 1% these days. What with Occupiers, the press, even the government hounding them, the rich are getting edgy. The poor just don’t…
From the CD Howe Institute: NEWFOUNDLAND’S ELECTRICITY OPTIONS: MAKING THE RIGHT CHOICE REQUIRES AN EFFICIENT PRICING REGIME Jan. 11, 2012 – James P. Feehan Newfoundland should hold off on plans…
I was driving around Mississauga listening to Bob Dylan’s Live 1975, The Rolling Thunder Revue, a great live album, when I realized that the narrator of “Romance In Durango” dies…
I loved this book so much I made my husband read it, which was no trial for him as he is still quoting it. I first heard about Momo and…
Responding to x28, ‘Lower Levels of Connectivism‘ First, it is probably more accurate to speak of ‘domains’ of connectivity rather than layers. The use of ‘layers’ suggests some sort of…
