Talking about public debt: dumb, dumber and dumbest
As austerity is all the rage among policy making elites I thought it would be a good time to talk about ways of measuring public debt. Here I will deal…
March 2012
Why Nobody Believes the Conservative Talking Points on the RoboCon Scandal.
Mere days ago the Conservative Party finally admitted their guilt in the “In & Out” election fraud scandal (remember that the Conservative Party headquarters was raided by the RCMP.) Months…
Pooled Registered Pension Plans
PRPPs – or what I prefer to call Mr. Flaherty’s Inferior Pension Plan or FLIP- are a poor alternative to the option of expanding the Canada Pension Plan. Unlike the…
Are Canada’s conservatives a house divided?
Here’s a question dear reader. Are you conservative or liberal? It might seem a straight forward question, but I imagine responses would vary widely based on the context of the…
NDP Leader: Nathan Cullen is the best choice for Canada
The biggest problem facing Canada right now is the apparent contempt for upholding our democratic rights that the current Harper new Tory government has. This contempt is shown in the…
The First Look at Redford’s Playbook
That sound you hear is the unofficial starting gun on Alberta’s 2012 election, as the PCs launch their first round of negative ads, under the familiar “Danielle Smith: Not Worth…
Heartland has Long History of Blowing Smoke
Joe Camel ad.jpg One of the most bizarre reactions to the St. Valetines Day Striptease, in which the Heartland Institute was tempted by a mild-mnannered scientist to completely expose itself…
In Honour of International Women’s Day, Let’s Stop Harming and Start Helping
It’s International Women’s Day, a good time to reflect on the fact that women around the globe are, and will be in the future, disproportionately affected by the effects of…
Dear Solar Storm watchers,
Don’t worry. These solar storms are nothing compared to the volcanoes and earthquakes I have witnessed. You humans will be just fine, I hope.
Should Ontario Become an Independent Country?
Ok just forget how crazy the questions sounds. The recent wrangling between Ontario and Alberta over the value of the Canadian dollar, oil output and the decline of manufacturing in…
How much is that Muskrat in the window? #nlpoli
So without much effort, the cost of Muskrat Falls, also known as the island infeed project, has gone from $6.2 billion to $8.9 billion. That’s without factoring in labour costs.…
New school rankings!
The Fraser Institute school ranking have been released and Pleasant Park PS has moved up the scale considerably! Congrats! I am not a huge fan of these rankings (nor of…
Robocon: Bob Rae has 12 days to protect Canada’s democracy by stopping the clock
The clock is ticking and there are less than three weeks to go (around 12 days as of today) before voters lose their right to appeal to the courts under…
Timeline of Conservative Election Chicanery
1995 The year Vic Toews entered the legislature representing the Manitoba PCs, the party covertly funded left-wing independents in order to split the opposition NDP’s vote. Although there was a…
4323…Israeli Apartheid Week = Antisemitism?
I know that it is Israeli Apartheid Week, at least at Carleton University and the University of Ottawa. My question is is Israeli Apartheid Week just antisemitism dressed up in…
FEMA Throws In the Towel? Not Quite Yet.
“We cannot afford to continue to respond to disasters and suffer impacts — particularly looking at large-scale catastrophic disasters — under the current program. It will fail.” That little ray…
Happy Women’s Day. Have you found YOUR feminism today?
Don’t you love that ad? I sure do. It’s a timely reminder of just what we’re all up against. Here’s another: ThinkProgress was being a little low-ball on the count…
But…but…lefties use bad words on the internet
Dear people who like to claim “both sides do it” and bemoan the use of strong or obscene language on the part of the lefty and progressive bloggers and claim…