Adapting KUALI financials for cities: Marin County is looking for Partners
Readers of my blog will be familiar Kuali – the coalition of universities that co-create a suite software core to their operations – as I’ve blogged about several times and…
February 2012
Resolution #58 Ghiz, Casey and MacAulay – Day 15
Does it really matter that the PEI NDP’s asked our Premier, Robert Ghiz and our two other Liberal MP’s to comment on Reslolution #58? Does it really matter that women…
The Dope On Marijuana
Perhaps more interesting than the Liberals- at least their assembled delegates- advocating legalization of marijuana, has been the reaction to said passage. I sense some hostility, revolving around the notion…
national day of student action
Today, February 1, Canadian post-secondary students all over the country are mobilizing in a Day of Action to demand increased education funding and a reduction in tuition fees. In Ontario,…
Public opinion in Hamilton & the rest of Canada concerning the CBC
New opinion research on public reaction to a proposed a new digital service in Hamilton in the spring of 2012.
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Wednesday, February 1, 2012: Julian Assange of WikiLeaks to Appeal Extradition at British Supreme Court BC Attorney-General’s qualifications…
On nothing burgers
Kevin Milligan, associate economics professor out at UBC is quoted again today on Old Age Security in another report on what experts are saying about the question of raising the…
More leisure time…
…earlier retirements? To some, this was the future as seen through the lenses of the mid 1990′s. With the Robot Master and his minions raising the possibility of changing the…
Hamilton residents want their own CBC station
A substantial majority of Hamilton area residents would like CBC to establish a local radio station to cover community affairs, and support the Conservative’s pre-election pledge to maintain or increase…
A Monty Python letter to all Conservatives: "I fart in your general direction"
I love this silly bit of correspondence between ‘Monty Python and the Holy Grail’ producers concerning a British censor. It’s written like it could have been a missive between two…
On the lighter side
Yes, we all know that Mitt Romney won the big Florida primary last night. Hours of overhyped television coverage seeping on to our Canadian screens told us so. But did…
Tony Clement is your champion of open government, Conservatives?
I had to laugh when I read this: ..Clement will be hosting a conference in Ottawa next week on open government. “As a minister, Clement has pushed forward with initiatives…
Adams and Nalcor: Second Round #nlpoli #cdnpoli
Energy analyst Tom Adams’ latest blog post on the Muskrat Falls project takes direct aim at the water studies used by Nalcor to support its claim that the plant will…
Perspectives on the pension issue
As the rhetoric on the OAS and pension debates really ramps up, what with the (truncated) debate on the pooled registered pension plans, and the continued reaction to Harper’s speech…
NAR founder C. Peter Wagner says State of Delaware paid him tribute
NAR founder C. Peter Wagner says he has been given a tribute by the State of Delaware. Richard Bartholomew has the details. We’ll have to take C. Pete’s word for…
For Two Saskatchewan Fetus Fetishist MPs
For Brad Trost and Maurice Vellacott, two MPs who are disgrace to Saskatchewan, Politics’n’Poetry gives you this:
DSM-5 Autistic Spectrum Disorder Disaster By Kim Oakley Should Be Mandatory Reading For The DSM-5 Committees
I have great respect for Kim Oakley a California mother who has been honestly and courageously documenting her severely autistic son’s self-injurious behavior on Youtube, Classic Autism kgaccount’s channel, for…
No one who has been paying attention should be surprised by Harper government’s fake pension ‘crisis’
“Holy shit,” this old guy is asking himself, “what was I thinking when I voted for Stephen Harper?” Below, Prime Minister Harper himself, possibly not exactly as illustrated. Below that,…
The centre isn’t holding
Rough beasts, start slouching. I’m starting to think a few things are starting to fall apart for the Harper Cons.After telling middle-aged Walmart cashiers that MPs are going to force…
PBI alumnist, North Carolina minister threatens to sue PBI abuse survivors
A US minister is threatening the spokesperson for Prairie Bible Institute abuse survivors, and by extension, PBI survivors with a lawsuit. Fred Whaples, a church planter in Concord North Carolina,…