Québec voters
Yesterday, Lysiane Gagnon reported in The Globe and Mail that, according to a recent survey by Léger Marketing, the Bloc has the most support in Québec, at 31 percent, four…
March 2012
Québec voters
Yesterday, Lysiane Gagnon reported in The Globe and Mail that, according to a recent survey by Léger Marketing, the Bloc has the most support in Québec, at 31 percent, four…
Québec voters
Yesterday, Lysiane Gagnon reported in The Globe and Mail that, according to a recent survey by Léger Marketing, the Bloc has the most support in Québec, at 31 percent, four…
Craig Scott wins
In the Toronto Danforth by-election last night, the NDP’s Craig Scott won handily with nearly 60 percent of the vote. This now brings the queer contingent of the caucus to…
The day after Toronto-Danforth
(Source) OK, so it wasn’t Seabiscuit after all. That’s part of a campaign and trying to swing momentum your way toward the end. This was, as everyone recognized, a very…
The RoboCon Scandal: Who is Rick McKnight ?
Golly Sherlock. This RoboCon story just keeps getting more and more mysterious. First it was who and where is Pierre Poutine? Then it was who gave him the password to…
Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose
I grew up informed and amused by Vancouver’s great editorial cartoonists Len Norris and Roy Peterson. At home, there is an original Norris on the wall, purchased at a 1981…
Lesson from Alberta: the need to cultivate the ‘professionally dirty mind,’ uh, clearly illustrated
Um… Nice hubcaps! Below: Proof that it could have been a lot worse! And why is Officer Annette smiling? To do one’s job properly, I have for years told my…
The need to cultivate the ‘professionally dirty mind,’ uh, clearly illustrated
Um… Nice hubcaps! Below: Proof that it could have been a lot worse! And why is Officer Annette smiling? To do one’s job properly, I have for years told my…
Canadians: too polite, too passive?
One more example of price gouging that faces Canadians every day. Live in Point Roberts WA, pay Amazon $76.39. Live two kilometres north in Tsawwassen BC, pay Amazon $149.99 for…
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Vision Wants to Take Back Naming Rights to Parks
A motion is coming forward to the Park Board on Monday 19 March which will take the naming of parks out of the hands of the community and put it…
The ubiquitous economist, the media, and Plato
It is odd. No other discipline in the social science gets away with being considered by the media as a jack of all trades as the economist does. Think about…
Web Developer Mystery Man….At Least McLovin Actually Had I.D.
FoolUsOnce,ShameOnWe WeWon’tBeFooledAgainVille And what a fine I.D. it was… **** And apropos of absolutely nothing at all, it would appear that there is a RackNine mystery man afoot for whom…
Radio Topics, March 20th
Happy Tuesday! We’ve got an exciting show lined up, so tune in at 7am on CKCU! At 8:05, we’ll speak with Citizen’s for Safe Cycling President Hans Moor about their…
4356…Are You That Three In 6.45 Million?
My buddy Len Berman passes this gem from the NCAA’s March Madness along: 2. Sweet 16 So who had #10 Xavier, #11 North Carolina State and #13 Ohio in their…
4355…The Problem With The Dippers
Is that they would rather be right than win. That is why Ed Broadbent and the other failures/establishment of the NDP don’t like Thomas Mulcair. He wants to win. The…
4354…Mike And Molly: What If
One the mega fat stars of the CBS comedy lose a big chunk of weight? And we don’t have super fat cops in Ottawa or Gatineau or Montreal; are super…
4353…Mound Of Sound: Here Is Why Ed B Sucked
Ed B is Ed Broadbent and I said that he failed. Here is why. He never got in power. That’s why they keep score; silver medal is for the first…
Liberals need an aggressive communications strategy
The only way to stop the Conservative attack machine is to hit it back, hard. This means creating an attack ad that will register with viewers, something that the Liberals…