Parliament in Review: March 27, 2012
Tuesday, March 27 saw a day dominated by the type of serious discussion about the role of the financial sector that we should expect in the years to come –…
April 2012
Two Attacks on Austerity: Krugman and Page on the Death of the Confidence Fairy
Paul Krugman, Nobel laureate for economics, has been trying to convince policy makers everywhere that austerity is bad for economies. In his column in The New York Times today he…
Gruending On The One Year Anniversary Of The Harper Majority
Its all good, but I’ll just highlight a bit that seems especially pertinent: It is worth noting, however, that Conservative backbenchers continued to bring forward private member’s bills that could…
Really Seeing
Anyone who follows this blog knows how much I love photography: Holding a camera makes me pay closer attention to what’s around me. I look at the ordinary—for instance a…
Steve Nash in Toronto?
My God, that would be so awesome. Will it happen? Of course not. Why would the incompetents at Maple Leaf Sports actually stop offering up stinkers, year after year, when…
the winners: great alberta election prediction pool.
The Party leaders. On Monday, Albertans went to the polls in what was expected to be a historic turning point in our province’s electoral history. It turns out that history…
Who saw it coming?
The answer to that question is “not very many of us”. More than 190 people entered the joint daveberta.ca and CalgaryGrit Great Alberta Election Pool, but like nearly all the…
Zellers selling patients’ records
Zellers is being sued by pharmacists over a plan to sell patient records to Loblaw and Metro, following a deal with Target. MARK BLINCH/REUTERS Zellers pharmacists are not happy and…
The Nanos thing
What’s it mean? Well, after the polling industry’s Alberta debacle, I don’t put much stock in polling, these days. You shouldn’t either. But if it’s true, it means that Bob…
Bob Kerrey, Fmr. Nebraska Governor on Iran
“I think invading Iran will make Iraq and Afghanistan look like a cakewalk. There are 80 million people living in Iran. If we were undersized with 250,000 men and women…
How Much Self Respect Do We Have?
“Technically, we might still call it a democracy,” Lawrence Martin writes this morning. But, “in practice it’s a democracy in name alone.” Martin, perhaps more than any other Canadian journalist,…
140Law – Legal Headlines for Friday, April 27, 2012
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Friday, April 27, 2012: Money rolls in for Zimmerman, lawyer must face judge U.S. ban sought on cell…
Tea Party North Tempest
I am reliably told that the source of some of this anonymous griping to the Star about Tim Hudak’s leadership comes from none other than Lisa MacLeod, previously Head Kool-Aid…
Earth Day With A Twist: Giving Our Credit Cards A Holy Pause
Last weekend, I had the privilege of participating in a unique Earth Day celebration in Winnipeg, Manitoba. On the sunny Earth Day Sunday, I joined dozens of other people streaming…
It’s never the crime, it’s always the cover-up, part ad infinitum
Next time the National Post lectures the rest of us about openness and transparency, blah blah blah, be sure to have this one handy: “In the meantime, there was as…
m312: harper gets our message
So the first hour of debate on the not-so-stealth abortion motion did not go well for Mr. Woodworth. The Opposition parties came out strongly in favour of the 21st century…
Quebec protests: righteous rage against hikes and cutbacks
Citizen protests have been a major feature of the debates raging in Quebec about future directions in the province, and by extension – Canada. On April 22 an estimated 250,000…
Strong Climate Change Law Passes in Mexico
Of the three countries in NAFTA, Mexico seems to care the most about the environment. The country just passed a strong law that will product the environment and aim to…
Your Morning Nanos: 34.7% Con, 32.4% NDP
Short post this morning covering the much-balked Nanos poll, which I find less reliable provincially, but they’re following the trend (most of the time) federally, so let’s go over it…
4546…Harper, Hitler, Socialists
May be he is on to something, he being our beloved Prime Minister. Adolph Hitler was a National Socialist. Thomas Mulcair is a Socialist who is a Nationalist. See where…