Destabilizing Statistics Canada
This news is really something, another head shaking moment. This comes from a government led by a trained Economist™: Nearly half of the roughly 5,000 people working at Statistics Canada…
May 2012
Hot Docs 2012 Midpoint Roundup – A guide to the political stuff at Toronto’s fest
Today is day five of Hot Docs 2012 and unlike last year, a lethal combination of meetings, movies and meanderings have kept me from a daily tally here at Art…
Sunday Ramble
I never did post all the photos I wanted from my last Sunday Ramble and there’s been another ramble since! (Click on any photo to enlarge.) This old Hi-Fi cabinet…
Good Thing It’s ^Not Pollution, Eh?
– Research and Innovation Centre at UofRegina; site of “clean energy” investment by Shell and other fine fossil fuel financiers. One of the more ridiculous logical fallacies that climate change…
EPA Shale Gas Emissions Standards: "Too Little, Too Late"
Picture 4.png The gas industry received a blow yesterday when the nonprofit group Physicians, Scientists & Engineers for Healthy Energy (PSE) released a joint statement by Professors Anthony Ingraffea and…
Women in politics: the “squeeze” factor
As any student of Canadian politics knows, Ellen Fairclough was Canada’s first female cabinet minister, appointed by Diefenbaker in 1957 and serving until her defeat as MP for Hamilton West…
Springtime for Hitler in Ottawa
Last week, our favourite sweatervest hoarding Prime Minister made the world’s laziest Nazi/Hitler invocation during Question Period. This is the latest in a string of Hitler references made by sundry…
Live Web Chat with Parker Mackay, Candidate for OYL Riding Director 8:00pm tonight!
Streaming live video by Ustream I’ve had the pleasure of working with Parker on the 2012 provincial election campaign. As founding members of the Whitby-Oshawa Young Liberals, we have worked…
Mulcair and Vegas: down memory lane
…but not down the memory hole. From a year ago: The NDP got its first taste of the perils of prominence Wednesday after being forced to handle two public relations…
Regressive taxation: help for the prosperous
Let’s Stop The Apple Tax Dodge, Isaiah J. Poole, Campaign for America’s Future, April 30, 2012 “In one sense, Sunday’s New York Times story on how Apple avoids paying U.S.…
#8!
BookNet bestsellers: Canadian fiction in great company! Web of Angels hanging out with Why Men lie by Linden MacIntrye, The Winter Palace by Eva Stachniak, Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan…
A plea from a canker sore sufferer.
“That Rev. Lovejoy displeases me. I think I’ll give him a canker sore.” — God, as spoken to Homer Simpson, in “Homer the Heretic” If you’ve never had a canker…
Infographic: How we’re using cell phones
Check out the infographic here about the ways we’re using cell phones. Pro-Internet community member Michelle Vee shared this on our Facebook Wall, with the following message about online choice,…
Stephen Harper likes to sing songs
Here is a good one that he should be singing. It is about his beloved F-35.
Jimmy Kimmel called Allen West a jackass at the White House Correspondents dinner
Jimmy Kimmel was not kidding. Allen West is a jackass. Remember when he said that 78 to 80 House Democrats were Communists. Here are some other nuggets from Allen West:…
The Civil Wars in the U.S. Labor Movement
When I went to the 2009 Labor Notes ‘Trouble Makers’ conference in Dearborn Michigan I never expected to be thrown into the middle – quite literally – of a dispute…
Headlines like this…
… make me grin from ear to ear; even if my day is as crappy as Hell. Oh, and of course he’s doomed. Witmer’s riding will go to the Libs.…
It was us: BlackBerry-maker RIM admits panned Apple flashmob was a marketing stunt
RIM would do well to just work on their phones — and try to get them to have enough memory so they don’t continuously crash: The stunt saw dozens of…
Unjust deserts
Without reporting anything on the BC Liberal HQ purge beyond the party line, Vancouver Sun reporter Jonathan Fowlie provides the pols an uncritical platform to assure us that all goes…
My shortlist for permanent leader of the Liberal Party of Canada
Speculation swirls around Bob Rae and his rumoured resignation as interim leader in order to throw his hat into the ring for permanent leader. Journalists give their views of which…