Olga Picasso in Transition
I have long been fascinated by Picasso’s portraits of his first wife, Ballet Russes dancer Olga Kokhlova. Not so much the sculptures and pictures at the end of their relationship,…
May 2012
Modernize The Message: Creativity Is King
This is a great example of messaging differently.
Favourite Poems LVIV: The Curate Thinks You Have No Soul
Was thinking, by-the-by, about some dogs I have loved, and how I get along with (and like, if truth be known) dogs better than most people. So sentimentalism be damned:…
Musings on Robocalls
At this point, can we avoid falling into a state where political power is seized rather than awarded by the public? The only way we can maintain good governance is…
Team Bertschi’s YouTube Channel Is Live
I didn’t know I had the mute button on when I first played this ad and without sound I thought it was a decent example of “Show, Don’t Tell” messaging.…
Quebec really is different from ROC: Violent protests continue
http://m.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/11-injured-including-4-police-officers-as-quebec-student-protest-turns-violent/article2423712/?service=mobile "More than 3,000 demonstrators disrupted Friday's Quebec Liberal Party meeting in Victoriaville with a violent protest that sent at least 11 people to hospital. Protesters reported being hit by…
Political Effectiveness #nlpoli
As these things go, George Murphy’s two days of news about compliance with the province’s ban on pesticides was a tidy and effective bit of political theatre. The provincial government…
Snake Oil Salesmen
Do you remember the photo ops, Conservatives standing in front of military hardware, on site at aerospace companies, trumpeting the “12 billion” in benefits the F-35 would bring to Canada?…
Time to Drop Left, Right and Centre
Words have power. Canadian politics is undergoing a realignment and the old words we use to describe the ‘political spectrum’ are becoming more a hinderance than a help in trying…
Time to Drop Left, Right and Centre
Words have power. Canadian politics is undergoing a realignment and the old words we use to describe the ‘political spectrum’ are becoming more a hinderance than a help in trying…
Let The Bells Ring
The Harper government is intent on passing its 421 page Budget Implementation Bill in seven days. If Stephen Harper were the Leader of the Opposition, he would be up in…
Why A Budget Omnibus Bill?
It’s the best way to hide your real purpose, which, according to Thomas Walkom, is this: It is aimed at eliminating regulations — particularly environmental regulations — that interfere in…
Sun Media Staff Exit The Propertied Class, Part III
Apparently, it isn’t just 333 King that’s been on the block. All their buildings are up for sale; their Cobourg property (99 King, housing Northumberland Today) is the latest to…
In today’s Sun (early): Harper’s defeating himself
Spare a thought, if you will, for a sad Stephen Harper, last week contemplating his first full year of majority governance. It is almost enough to feel some sympathy for…
Liberals Growing Irrelevance In West.
The Liberal party has a major problem. We seem for the most part since May 2nd 2012 to be up from our election results. All major projections have us gaining…
Saturday At The Movies
Cat ennui – clever and funny! Thanks to Emma for passing it on.
Scrapping the Public Appointments Commission is Not “Good News”
The media is finally sitting down to do the hard work of its actual job, i.e. reading the budget bill for the year. Parliament won’t be doing that job, incidentally;…
It’s Very, Very Good – Only It’s Very, Very Not
The folks at DND have grown used to treating our Parliamentarians and the Canadian public like imbecilic dupes. That much comes through loud and clear in the 160-word letter the…
Justice is blind … to abuse, again
I republish this article from January 2011. The trial of RCMP Constable Mantler is scheduled for November 2012 and this seemingly straight forward case is scheduled to last three weeks.…