The Copyright Modernization Act received assent on June 29, 2012, and will be enabled as its various components are declared in force by the federal government. For a succinct breakdown…
A youngish Charles Tupper at his desk. “I knew Charles Tupper and Alison Redford is no Charles Tupper” – and a good thing for her, too! Below: Sir Charles as…
So, there’s this fellow who works at Sun News. We often share the same page in the paper for our columns. He is quite famous, and I decidedly am not.…
So, now we learn that the former minister has been smoking in her offices. Just for the record, she’s not the only MP or senator to break the no smoking…
There’s this expression “I wouldn’t piss on him if he was on fire” which comes close to describing the Conservative Party approach to health care for refugees. How anyone could…
I still have one month of school left, give or take, and it is going to be a hard go of it right to the end. This term has been…
So, now we learn that the former minister has been smoking in her offices. Just for the record, she’s not the only MP or senator to break the no smoking…
Clark’s fracking registry: a fractionary issue, Vanessa Annand, The Martlet, Sep 22, 2011, Volume 64 Issue 7 “…Fracking, a process that allows companies to pump out hard-to-reach deposits of oil…
Canada’s federal immigration minister is way out of line here. The Calgary South East MP has posted a petition on his website – jasonkenney.ca – asking Canadians to thank him…
The upcoming (as yet undated) by-election in Kitchener-Waterloo could change our minority provincial government into a Liberal majority. As a Liberal and an ardent supporter of Premier McGuinty, I think…
I’ve been wrestling all day – less with what to write than how to write it – so I thought I’d begin with an absurd fruit-plate. Leading with humour is…
Tablet computers have been around for years, but it took Steve Jobs to make them popular. Though the Liberal Party has been around longer than any tablet computer, it shares…
Yep, another Alberta post. Welcome to the reality of the two-tiered Alberta energy system. What do I mean by two tiered? Well let me explain. Over a year ago I…
This is the video of my interview on Medicare for Autism Now! Since that interview a US Federal Court Judge has ordered Florida Medicaid to provide Medicaid coverage of ABA…
Just at West 49. Buying gear for the kids. Guy at cash sees my Replacements tee. “Hey, man, that was a great movie,” says he. “What?” I say, horrified and…
Well, Roy McMurtry was a good judge after a long career in politics — so why not Vic Toews? He's a hard nose in politics but that's not necessarily of…
This article from The Edmonton Journal offers an interesting explanation of why ‘black guns’ are growing in popularity amongst gun ‘hobbyists’. Were I a conspiracy-minded individual (which, of course, I…
Whenever social and economic crises develop, those in power always try to blame somebody else. For example, what caused the recession in the U.S. in 2008? Simple, it was the…
Just got informed – via the CivicAccess mailing list – that Canada’s Access to Information Commissioner is planning to review Canada’s Access to Information legislation (full story here at the…
