This is a weird column
But you’ve got to admire his willingness to make a pile of predictions, willy-nilly, with nary a qualifier in sight. This is a columnist operating without a safety net, folks,…
May 2012
NDP Hits First Wall.
I knew since the beginning that the NDP attempts to keep it’s support in Quebec will pose them problems in the west. Yes the oil sands comments aren’t going to…
A "Gaffe", Eh? Part Duh
Abacus Data finds 37% support for the Tories nationally, unchanged since January. With newly installed leader Thomas Mulcair at the helm, the New Democratic Party has rocketed to 35% backing.…
Blogging in point form
Lately I’ve been falling behind. In April I went from a four-day-a-week job and two contracts on the side to a five-day-a-week job and four contracts. It’s temporary – the…
Making bad decisions: the Twitter edition #nlpoli
The Premier’s communications – Glenda Power – sent a couple of twitter messages to CBC’s Curtis Rumboldt on Friday. She was apparently correcting him on the impact closing Corner Brook…
Lord Black said he believes locking up non-violent offenders is wrong
"It's done because it's always been done but it is nonsense. It is not the way to treat them. It's horribly expensive. It's tokenistic, fetishistic – and a matrix for…
False Conviction Syndrome
A University of Michigan study looks at wrongful convictions in America, and reaches predictable conclusions: Gross co-authored a report on the database that pulls together statistics on exonerations from January…
Secrecy at Public Accounts Committee Rises from 21.8% under Liberals to 32.1% Under Conservatives
My study of Parliamentary secrecy, rejuvenated by CP’s bogus numbers claiming to prove that the Martin majority was much more secretive than the Harper majority, continues. Unlike the House as…
Heartland Denial-a-Palooza Sponsors Have Received $67 Million From ExxonMobil, Koch and Scaife Foundations
heartland_billboard.jpg The Heartland Institute's Seventh "International Conference on Climate Change" – the somewhat-annual gathering of climate deniers that we call Denial-a-Palooza – is underway in Chicago. Heartland's contrarian gathering this…
The G20 resolution: Another insult to Canadians for your brain to ponder
So, this is it? The great resolution? This is the result that it has taken two years to come up with? This is an insult, and for other reasons than…
holiday Monday is all right for uke fighting?
the originalthe cover For 14 years in Japan, this was my homesickness theme song. I even got to perform it with a local jazz band in my local pub a…
The sounds of Beijing…
… through a third floor office window… I’m writing this on the way back to the hotel after a good and productive day. The A/C hasn’t yet been switched on…
English language Montreal media gets it wrong, again,
If you read the first sentence of the article above about the 28th consecutive nocturnal protest in Montreal against proposed tuition hikes, it states that "Hundreds of people returned to…
English language Montreal media gets it wrong, again,
If you read the first sentence of the article above about the 28th consecutive nocturnal protest in Montreal against proposed tuition hikes, it states that “Hundreds of people returned to…
English language Montreal media gets it wrong, again,
If you read the first sentence of the article above about the 28th consecutive nocturnal protest in Montreal against proposed tuition hikes, it states that "Hundreds of people returned to…
English language Montreal media gets it wrong, again,
If you read the first sentence of the article above about the 28th consecutive nocturnal protest in Montreal against proposed tuition hikes, it states that “Hundreds of people returned to…
Quebec and the Big Freedom Party
It's just after 8pm in Montreal, and the reporter from CUTV is talking to a young mother who is taking her two kids to the 28th nightly demonstration in a…
Photographer seeks arrested student strikers
Toronto-based photographer Brett Gundlock is currently in Montreal capturing portraits of demonstrators who have been detained or arrested during the ongoing student strike. The photos will be a continuation of…
The inevitable result of increased complexity and profit
Chinese fake parts ‘used in U.S. military equipment’ As real profit margins sink and the full effect of peak oil kicks in, these are the sorts of stories there will…