The Campbell/Clark Government continues to stumble one step after the other. The latest out of these incompetent fools goes much deeper than just mismanagement of our affairs, although they are…
The Campbell/Clark Government continues to stumble one step after the other. The latest out of these incompetent fools goes much deeper than just mismanagement of our affairs, although they are…
OPSEU represents about 36,000 health care professionals and support staff who work in settings ranging from community mental health to large urban hospitals. When it comes to this BLOG, we…
I’ve always thought of Zuckeberg as a hack, a man that was well positioned to take advantage of an emerging trend, armed with a great idea, some money and a…
The Opposition clearly want one. Personally – speaking only for me, myself and I – I wouldn’t necessarily object. I enjoy elections. I like elections. Mostly, however, it will permit…
I recently wrote a post entitled, What Do Bumper Stickers Reveal About Us? Part 1, in which I contemplated the implications of the one that reads: If You Don’t Stand…
800px-Atlantic_hurricane_tracks.jpg Uh oh. Hurricane season has started early. On Saturday (the 19th), when Tropical Storm Alberto spun up off the Carolina coast, forecaster Brennan of the National Hurricane Center had…
As I’m sure most of you know, Montreal now has a bylaw banning masks at protests. Mayor Gérald Tremblay asks, “When a cause is just, why is it necessary to…
As I'm sure most of you know, Montreal now has a bylaw banning masks at protests. Mayor Gérald Tremblay asks, "When a cause is just, why is it necessary to…
As I’m sure most of you know, Montreal now has a bylaw banning masks at protests. Mayor Gérald Tremblay asks, “When a cause is just, why is it necessary to…
To say the Dean Del Mastro makes Jason Kenney look like a genius! That is all. Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Via Monkey Cage comes a link to a study that shows that the average speech comprehension level in the United States Congress has dropped a full grade level in the…
Go to google. type in manifencours. The first entry to come up should be the twitter site for the strike in Montreal. And it gives a very different picture from…
Here in Canada, there are certain limits on how much an individual donor can give to the political campaign of a candidate. I believe it’s around the vicinity of $1400…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Brian Topp weighs in on Canada’s history of raw resource exploitation that should offer a lesson for anybody interested in learning. And pogge…
Yesterday saw the convergence of two events: the 100th day of the student strike marked by a demonstration of more than 150,000 people in the streets of Montreal and the…
A caveat: I haven’t taken constitutional politics in over a decade, though I was fortunate enough to have Peter Russell as a professor and had issues with Ted Morton eons…
An island with a little under 2,000,000 people. Let’s say 50,000 or 250,000 have been demonstrating against the sitting government. For over 100 days. I would think that having between…
It is perfectly reasonable that the federal government change the EI rules so that an unemployed person must accept a job within an hour’s drive from home – or be…
The New York Times lead editorial today is extremely pertinent as regional cyberspace swirls with analysis and pictures from yesterday’s huge (and probably illegal) demonstration in Montreal. “Full Disclosure for…
