“Obamaville” Examined
Wow. I’d heard about this attack ad put together by the Santorum campaign and finally saw it last night on Hardball. Chris Matthews and his fellow chuckleheads all seemed to…
March 2012
4390…Ontario Budget
Pain for all. In a lot of respects Premier Dalton McGuinty is the anti-Bob Rae. Here is what I mean. Premier McGuinty was captain of Ontario when we got in…
Tuesday Evening Links
Assorted content to end your day. – Carol Goar asked this weekend for a reasonable explanation as to how to allocate the pain in times of austerity. Not surprisingly, the…
GovernmAnt accused of rigging F-35 purchase
Inspired by this story: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/03/27/pol-fighter-jets.html
‘Cause This Is What You’ve Waited For?
. . In a word…… Yes. (stay with it through to the last verse) _____ And in case you are new here and don’t know what Mr. Hansard and his…
We’ve Been Warned
We’re down to the home stretch in the fight to save civilization from the ravages of runaway global warming. A report in Scientific American warns we’re within just one decade…
#AbVote Riding to Watch: Edmonton-Riverview
Edmonton-Riverview is a nominally Liberal seat just west of the heart of downtown Edmonton, represented by former Alberta Liberal leader Kevin Taft (2004-2008) since 2001. The riding has voted Liberal…
Ontario Budget Emulates Drummond
Perhaps the most striking feature of today’s Ontario budget is how close it comes to last month’s Drummond report. Drummond’s recommendation for 2017-18 was $134.7 billion of provincial revenue, $117.5…
Sixth Estate’s prediction for the 2012 budget…
… is that there will not be one single professional journalist who asks the only question worth asking: How does this government propose to create and maintain a balanced budget…
Too Many People?
Ian Angus and Simon Butler ’s new book about population control, or “populationism” in the widest sense, is invaluable for people concerned about climate change, climate justice, environmental racism, and…
A Taste of Things to Come?
So, my friend over at www.nuncscio.com remarked to me a couple of weeks back that Canadian politics tends to be about 5-10 years behind that of our American cousins. He,…
Provincial election???
My guess is the NDP will back the budget, at least to the extent of having a couple of members stay out of the voting — but it will be…
As Harper Prepares Attack Ads To Paint The NDP As Fiscally ‘Risky’ We Find New Brunswick CONSERVATIVES Driving Provincial Debt Up To $11 Billion …
Unfortunately there are no ‘truth in advertising’ regulations when it comes to political attack ads. As I post this, Stephen Harper’s propaganda-meisters are preparing TV ads that are going to…
Talking About Cities With People Who Don’t Live in One
When it comes to talking about the divide between urban and non-urban living there’s more differences than just who lives in a more sustainable community. People living in non-urban areas…
Jean Delville: ‘Parsifal’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQOfIENN2tk&feature=b-vrec
Sufficient reasons required
R. v. D.A., 2012 ONCA 200 is a good illustration of the need for trial judges to be careful in giving reasons that fully set out the basis for judgment.…
Why Thomas Mulcair gets it when it comes to Israel
Not surprisingly, Thomas Mulcair won the NDP leadership last month, replacing Saint Jack Layton as the man social democrats hope can rally left-of-centre voters to defeat Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s…
Discredited economics and the revered economist
In the wake of the financial crisis of 2007-2008 there was much talk from within and without the economics profession about what went wrong. Many on the outside of the…
Vic Has A Warning For All of Us
Our alleged Public Safety Minister, Vic Toews, issued the following warning today: Online hacker group Anonymous a threat to us all Maybe. Or perhaps it is a threat only to…
Harper’s latest F-35 big 180
Harper yesterday: While the government isn’t giving any guarantees Canada will buy the F-35, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said the country will remain involved in the stealth fighter project to…