Solar Tour
On the weekend I had a fantastic tour of the Regina area, along with my parents, seeing the sights highlighted by conversions to solar energy. Solar PV, and active and…
June 2012
Catch up Time: Holes in the Streets, Severe Storms and Trying to Make up for Past Mistakes
The photo (from the CBC) shows the latest in a series of holes that have developed in Montreal streets over the past few weeks. One opened up on Sherbrooke St.…
Socialism is misunderstood, my response.
Today, I’m going to be responding to this – interesting and poetic – conservative blogger. The post in question is So long, Socon! I am not going to be addressing…
Thomas Mulcair…
… wants to give you Dutch disease. A disease invented by the Dutch to attack Canada’s economy. Holland. Home to legalised drugs, windmills and Hollandaise sauce. Thomas Mulcair wants to…
Joe Oliver, Conservative policies get pwned
It’s amazing how a cabinet minister can go to pieces when confronted with a little informed dissent. Ladies and gentlemen, the Honorable Joe Oliver: Minister, Conservative MP, sulky child. Thanks…
Quote: Nation, Gender, Sexuality
The nation is comprised of sexed subjects whose “performativity” constructs not only their own gender identity but the identity of the entire nation as well. Through repetition of accepted norms…
June 26: Mea culpa
Yesterday, the Moncton Free Press got it right; I got part of it wrong; and the Moncton Times and Transcript didn’t get it at all. The big story was that…
Justin Trudeau: Thomas Mulcair’s worst nightmare
If Justin Trudeau was leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and an election was held today, then three of Thomas Mulcair’s nightmare events would take place Firstly, and most…
4802…I Am Going To Live Forever
Time Magazine reports on a study from the University of Texas at Austin, Hook ’em Horns, that says that drinkers liver, er, live longer than non fun people.The twenty year…
Press conference aborted after doc asks question about cuts to refugee health plan
University Health Network CEO Bob Bells tried to apologize after a doctor and a medical student interrupted a press conference by Federal Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver at the Toronto…
Yes, there are more than one: David Harvey’s “The Crises of Capitalism”
An incisive analysis of the financial crisis. I’m sure many of you will disagree, but this is not a perspective that can be easily dismissed.
Province Newspaper Pulled Cartoon Under Pressure from Enbridge
A spoof of an Enbridge pipeline video ad by Vancouver Province cartoonist, Dan Murphy. It was pulled from The Province’s website after an enraged call to the Province by Enbridge.
Province Newspaper Pulled Cartoon Under Pressure from Enbridge
Pasted hereon is one of the funniest clips I have ever seen. It’s a spoof of an Enbridge pipeline video ad by Vancouver Province cartoonist, Dan Murphy. It’s brilliant and…
Goodbye Jonathon Kay! Goodbye Andrew Coyne!
Postmedia Network has sold, and will be moving from, their Don Mills HQ, which I run past every morning on my way to work. Word is they’re headed for a…
Solar Powered
Not that this information is going to make a huge difference in your life, but it’s something you might find interesting. Or you may not. I don’t know. But. By…
Technology: Will docs battle Watson for your diagnosis?
Healthcare has always experienced a love-hate relationship with technology. New technologies have certainly both contributed to costs and reduced costs. There has been considerable literature on how expensive new technologies…
The Toronto District School Board’s Political Response
While hardly surprising, the decision of TDSB chair, Chris Bolton, to have a facilities committee look into The Star’s embarrassing revelations about its inappropriate and very costly relationship with Jimmy…
Thomas Mulcair’s NDP…
…has weird ideas. Dangerous and weird ideas. He experiments with ideas. Ideas that would kill Canadian jobs. Jobs like these: Ideas are a gateway to job-killing drugs. The kind that…
4801…100 Pound Scrotum
I am not certain what the average scrotum weighs but one would think that it is a tad less than 100 pounds, like about 100 pounds less than 100 pounds.…
Migrants and Migrant Labour #nlpoli
Russell Wangersky devotes his Tuesday column this week to migration and labour. He starts out with a discussion of the recent quarterly population figures from Statistics Canada, notes that they…