Shall I compare thee, in chart form, to a summer’s day
Yes, yes I shall you diminutive, lovely, and crazy person. Alltop loves a good stifle.
March 2012
A Tale of Two Newspapers
The Globe and Mail and its sundry propagandists (excepting the principled Lawrence Martin, of course) continue their Sisyphean task of defending the indefensible by issuing almost daily dismissals both of…
Hepburn On Harper
Yesterday, Bob Hepburn publicly apologized to Brian Mulroney. He explained that Mulroney used to have no equal: Several years ago, I wrote that Mulroney, more than any politician in modern…
New column day
Here, on how Robocon may damage the Harper Cons’ reputation for years to come – so long as the opposition parties seek out better ways to reach voters in the…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Amy Minsky uncovers some suspicious-looking spending patterns underlying Robocon, while Postmedia also points out that election results in at least a couple…
One does not equal the other
Certain columnists in certain media are trying to downplay the Robocalls/Robocon controversy by claiming that certain ridings where robo-calls were alleged to have been showed increased voter turnout; ergo, voter…
Moderation and "Supersize Me"
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Mike McCracken: Winner of the 2012 Galbraith Prize in Economics
The Progressive Economics Forum (PEF) is proud to announce that Mike McCracken, Chair and CEO of Informetrica Ltd. in Ottawa, has won the 3rd biennial Galbraith Prize for a lifetime…
Real Women Should Not Be Choosing Diamond Jubilee Medal Winners
From Xtra: A Canadian group whose homepage currently states that one of the biggest threats to families is the “homosexual lobby” and “the media” has been appointed to help government…
Tori Stafford murder trial: Mother’s shortcomings
This is a very fair piece. Unlike the Blatchford column today which blasts defence counsel for raising the shortcomings, DiManno acknowledges their relevance but suggests we not judge. Which is…
Shooting fish in a barrel #nlpoli
Okay. So with the Premier babbling about cuts or not cuts, you could guess where the opposition parties would go during their second Question Period. Yeah, well guess again. Because…
Tracking the robocall dollars
As people try to track the money trail, interesting questions are turning up with regards to the calling company RMG, especially when certain candidates in Quebec are being billed for…
Conservative Robocall Double Standard
If a single standard is good, a double standard must be better. On March 5 with his party embroiled in the Robocall scandal Conservative MP Dean Del Mastro stood up…
Dishonourable and unscrupulous – but consistent
Currently, the internet is alive with discussion of public education in British Columbia and I’ve gathered a few elements from different sites to create a composite of opinions that reflect…
Brad Trost says Harper is not Pro-Life and chastises the PMO
I just finished reading a Macleans interview with Conservative backbench MP Brad Trost. For those, like me, who’ve seen his name in the press about the issue of abortion, and…
BC Teachers Hurt The Left & Help The Right
The teachers’ strike in British Columbia this week was bad for the province but good for the BC Liberals. Facing challenges from the NDP on their left and the Conservatives…
Red Chamber Blues
BC Premier Christy Clark took a break from bullying teachers yesterday to back the idea of elections to Canada’s Senate. If the private member’s bill introduced by Liberal John Les…
Calculating the Value of Canada’s Open Data Portal: A Mini-Case Study
Okay, let’s geek out on some open data portal stats from data.gc.ca. I’ve got three parts to this review: First, an assessment on how to assess the value of data.gc.ca.…