Austerity and recession, invariably linked
UK is back in recession, OECD says, Phillip Inman, The Guardian, March 29, 2012 “The UK is heading back into recession and will be among the slowest of the world’s…
April 2012
Ethics and competence not germane
Phil Hochstein is worried about the politicians who served his interests so well in recent years. In present form, most of those men and women now seem unelectable. As a…
Hey Chairman Harper, We’re Not North Korea Yet
In North Korea it’s standard for visiting journalists to be accompanied by North Korean ‘minders’ who keep and eye on where they go and who they talk to. These minders…
Shift happens, but not this fast – trying to understand Alberta’s wonky polls
Shift happens: An Alberta pollster runs down the road looking for a crowd of Albertans to survey. Nothing in sight, however. Below: Premier Alison Redford and Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith.…
The missing link to renewable energy
Related posts (randomly generated) Renewable energy is bullshit… literally McCain on renewable energy, the environment and climate change
The Wild Hog Gang and the New Alberta
Wow. What a dramatic finish. The rednecks were squealing with anticipation. The beer was on ice.The Big Oil Barbie was so sure she would win. But in the end the…
VikiLeaks30: A Little Deserved Contempt
I enjoyed all three of the videos that play in succession on this CTV page. Kady live blogging in the background is amusing. I supposed most people get funny facial…
About Books and Writing Space
A taste of my second guest blog at the National Post: In retrospect I’m guessing that my school library was donated. Most of the books dated back to the Victorian…
Connecting actions to results
A few days ago, a Postmedia telemarketer called, aiming to revive a subscription cancelled years ago. “For less than 50 cents a day…” I declined, despite knowing the contributions of…
In today’s Sun: not all of us predicted a Wildrose victory…
Campaigns matter. Stephen Carter, the election strategist who took Naheed Nenshi from nowhere to capture Calgary’s mayoralty, is the same guy who engineered Redford’s huge win on Monday night. Carter…
Late night
Irrespective of how you feel about the Vikileaks episode, you have to recognize in today’s hearing that the Conservatives were hoist on their own petard. (Yes, I did see Veep…
Adam Carroll is VikiLeaks
The Conservatives today dragged the former Liberal party staffer behind the famous VikiLeaks30 Twitter scandal before the parliamentary Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics. And they hoped…
That’s My Woman!
Tuesday April 24, 2012 Today I witnessed something that I have been looking for in our political system for a very long time. Provincially, the NDP and Liberals came to…
4528…Good Thing He Has Two
Greg Gibson is a major league umpire. Stephen Strasburg is a major league pitcher. Mr. Strasburg throws a baseball at a titch over 97 miles per hour. For those of…
Giant squirrel unleashes flu on you
The Tories are up to some serious shit shutting down science and research in the federal government. Wreaking having with important, successful programs. Sorta like this squirrel.
‘Harold the Jewellery Buyer’ pistol-whipped in robbery
This story is sadly commonplace. Jewellers are often robbed and often violently. They are a rare source of extremely valuable, largely anonymous and easily saleable goods. Steal diamonds or better…
4527…Wedding Season Already?
’tis for dogs. No, I am not hating on ugly women, I mean womyn. No, I am not. mydesert.com out of Palm Springs, Arizona, tells all that “What began as…
Canada Post’s War on the 21st Century, Innovation & Productivity
The other week Canada Post announced it was suing Geocoder.ca – an alternative provider of postal code data. It’s a depressing statement on the status of the digital economy in…