To Jerusalem — Via New York and Toronto
The Globe and Mail reports that Mitt Romney’s foreign policy has Canadian roots. Dan Senor, who has accompanied Romney on his tour of Israel, was born in New York but…
July 2012
Occupy Movement Call for Global Day of Action: Chalkupy the World!
via Occupy Los Angeles: On July 12th, participants in OccupyLA met to raise awareness for unlawful arrests of activists that had been targeting a lobby group with a stranglehold on…
Media Quietude Over Climate Change
A few months ago, when we were seeing mid-summer temperatures during early spring, I remember Tom Brown, the CTV weatherman, looking grim and saying words to the effect that “This…
Oil May Well Destroy Canada
A fairly devastating economic analysis of the oil sands “benefits” as it relates to the federation. Despite the continual sales pitch that oil sands development is of great benefit to…
Sam Harris and Free Will and Double Predestination
Sam Harris’s view on free will is really nothing new. It is merely a secular restatement of the Calvinist concept of double predestination – we are saved or damned without…
Instant Run-off voting – Toronto considers it.
There is a column in the National Post about the City of Toronto possibly considering a voting reform; implementing Instant Run-off Voting (IRV) or Ranked Balloting as in time for…
Canvassing: There’s an App for that
Canvassing gets with modernity courtesy of the Obama campaign: “Obama Campaign Releases iPhone App for Canvassing.” The app, which is available on Tuesday, will allow supporters of Mr. Obama’s to…
Ask General Kang: Did you have the Olympics on your home world?
That is a ridiculous question! I come from another planet, deep in another galaxy, on which the dominant lifeforms have evolved along a completely different track from you humans. What…
Back to P Dot today!
Maybe I’ll be inspired to write an old fashioned rant or two about Big Tony! Hell! Maybe I’ll drop in to see how his gazebo is holding up! But mostly,…
A finalized term sheet? #nlpoli
Nalcor and Emera signed a finalised term sheet to develop Muskrat Falls in November 2010. The next step was supposed to be negotiation of a final agreement between Nalcor and…
The Pipeline and the Terrorist Menace
Some days this summer its been too hot to go to the beach. And when I do go, and I lie there on the baking sand, I can't help thinking…
In today’s Sun: when Harper goes, they’re pooched
L’etat, c’est lui. That Stephen Harper is the undisputed leader in Canadian politics — that he utterly dominates the landscape, in a way no one else does — is a…
Glen Taylor quits as leader – Alberta Party ponders the Big Goodbye
Your blogger in happier times with departing Alberta Party Leader Glenn Taylor. Below: Party luminaries Michael Walters and Sue Huff. Get ready for the Big Re-Think. Or the Long Goodbye.…
Radio Topics, July 31st
We’ve got an exciting show lined up today- at 8:30 I’ll be speaking with the President of the Hintonburg Community Association, Jeffrey Leiper, about the goings on in the community,…
The Dangling Carrot
“Police” in Anaheim / Source: OCWeekly Well, I guess there is going to be some “economic headwinds” over the next few months. Thanks for the heads up, Obama. Four years…
Evangelical tribalism – stance versus substance
For evangelicals, one’s “stance” determines one’s standing. What does it mean that a stance is the all-important determinant of one’s status and legitimacy in the community? Part of what it…
4955…Why Is Mitt Romney In Europe?
I don’t get it. Besides the fact that he has stuck his foot in it in England, Israel and was greeted with chants of Obama! Obama! in Poland, isn’t this…
Competition Bureau (Not) Tough on Crime: Government Voids Rule of Law
It’s a comparatively minor case, but for those who are hoping Canada’s various white-collar crime units will protect us from lawbreakers, this doesn’t exactly bode well: Corporate Research Group… pleaded…
LBJ on Economics
“Making a speech on economics is a lot like pissing down your leg. It may seem hot to you,but it never does to anyone else.” Cited in Robert A. Caro,…