Paulie Has Left the Building….
…. though likely not by his own choice. Over the last month, Facebook has been purging folks who euphemistically refer to themselves as “White Nationalists.” The purge has been noted…
March 2012
GM Defunds Heartland Institute
General Motors, the world’s largest carmaker, has confirmed that it is pulling funding from the Heartland Institute, an ultra-conservative thinktank known for its scepticism about climate change. This is a…
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Feeding Time at the Zoo
This is what a typical Birdie Breakfast looks like around here. Going clockwise from the left, that’s Simon’s breakfast, Kazoo’s breakfast and Oboe’s breakfast. By suppertime, Simon’s breakfast dish will…
Canada’s Scorched Earth Hour
8:30pm tonight is Earth hour, where towns and cities in more than 135 countries turn off their lights. For one hour. To save the planet from climate change. To be…
5 Questions: Jonathan Scott
I became a fan of Jonathan Scott’s writing during the Liberal convention at the beginning of the year (he wrote for Ipolitics.ca.) He is currently studying at the University of…
Budget 2012 vs Sixth Estate Patronage List
After wasting millions of dollars languishing in the government equivalement of development hell, under Budget 2012 the Public Appointments Secretariat is finally being abolished. This was an office which the…
On regional impacts
Back here, I pointed out the prairie numbers from Forum Research’s poll about Canada’s federal leaders as an indication that the NDP has plenty of opportunity to grow after electing…
Really Listening To Mulcair For The First Time…
AllTheRhetoricThatFits ForTheOtherSixtyPercentVille Thomas Mulcair was on the long wave with Evan Solomon this morning. I, for one, was impressed. No wishying…. No washying… As he chopped a number of Republican/Conservative…
The importance of fundamentals for a stable nomination race
For any analyst, covering this GOP Presidential Nominee race is a humbling experience. Almost everybody – myself included – has made bad predictions. It has been so wildly unpredictable and…
Thomas Mulcair’s flip-flop on cannabis is disappointing but not surprising
On January 25th, 2012, a survey was released on EndProhibition.ca (a pro-NDP anti-prohibition website) where Thomas Mulcair’s campaign stated that he was in favour of decriminalizing cannabis and was very…
Dear Rex Murphy/National Post
If you’re going to write about the Trayvon Martin case, at least pretend to care enough to get the dead kid’s name right: “Trevyor”? Twice?? I am available part-time for…
The Harper Budget’s Attack On Charities
Although hardly surprising, given both the ideological bent of the Harper regime and earlier warnings from Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver, there is little doubt that the provisions of the…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – If there’s any lesson we should all be able to draw from the past decade in Canadian politics, it’s that anything can happen.…
When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.
Martin Luther King, Jr. And his point is well taken — conservative or liberal are just labels. What we all should do is focus on the issues and not the…
March 31: Read page D 5….
My heart sank when I saw the headline “Reuben Cohen speaks out on Moncton High”. Usually, newspapers like The Moncton Times and Transcript use that “speaking out” headline to lead…
Things that make you go "Hmmm"
The Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) is the primary agency overseeing K-12 public education in Washington state. OSPI works with the state’s 295 school districts to administer basic…
The Good, the Bad and the Meh on Monday Night Raw: March 26, 2012
So, I’ve finally got around to watching Raw from Monday. It was a busy week, but I wanted to watch and review this show since it is the last one…
Ocean view #10
Filed under: art, digital, painting Tagged: art, ocean, painting, seascape, water
How green are Arthur C. Clarke’s predictions?
I’m always amazed when I see clips of Clarke predicting how technology will change our lives. The clip above is from 1973. In retrospect, he gets so much right, yet…