Why Quebec should give Charest the pink slip on Tuesday
Jean Charest and his Liberals have been a relatively good government for the past nine years, but it is time for that province to elect a new Premier with a…
September 2012
Saturday Afternoon ‘Rider Blogging
Yes, last week’s loss to Calgary was downright ugly to watch at times. But it may also signal some positive changes for the Saskatchewan Roughriders – and we should find…
5116…Sun TV Supports The Parti Quebecois
This should make Ezra Levant and Charles Adler’s panties all moist.The wife, well not really his wife, his conjoine, of the owner of Sun TV, Pierre-Karl Peladeau, Julie Snyder, took…
Hats Off to the Cowichan Valley Citizen!
Richard Hub Hughes-Political Blogger It was very encouraging to read the latest Cowichan Valley Citizen editorial in Friday’s edition, well done. It is all too easy for local media to…
BLOG RE-DESIGN: New professional blog for Yours Truly…
I’ve decided to end my political blogging and re-focus my online efforts to promoting my career as a screenwriter, producer and filmmaker. I’ll keep my existing content on this site…
Independent engineering report on Northern Gateway: “This is clearly an unacceptable risk.”
The Vancouver Sun is reporting today that, according to an independent analysis by three professional engineers, the Enbridge Northern Gateway proposal to ship oil sands bitumen from Kitimat along the…
Saturday Photo: Fabulous, Dangerous Weather
The termperature is just about perfect today–24 C. or mid-70s F–with no humidity to factor in. What is more, on this last weekend of the official summer, the neighborhood seems…
5115…Football Be Edumacational
Watching ESPN‘s broadcast of the Syracuse/Northwestern game and Doris Burke drops this kernel of knowledge on the world. The only place in the USA where the green light is on…
Clint Eastwood interviews Mitt Romney at GOP Convention
Invisible Mitt Romney is on the chair next to Eastwood.
Sun site still down?
Can’t post my column until it is!
The Folly of Corporate Tax Cuts
Part of the orthodoxy of right-wing ideology is that corporate tax-cuts are an unalloyed benefit to the economy. The argument goes that the lower the tax regime, the more jobs…
5114…Only In Quebec
Or Vermont and parts of Eastern Ontario could this happen. It has been widely reported that 30,000 somethings, litres, gallons, pints of maple syrup has been thiefed. This stuff is…
How America’s Job-Creator-In-Chief Actually Made his Fortune
In a much overlooked piece from Rolling Stone, Matt Taibbi chronicled how Mitt Romney actually made his mega-fortune and, here’s a hint, it wasn’t a process of job creation. No,…
Poor customer service
“Man Calls Police To Complain About Prostitute Price HikeANN ARBOR, Mich. — Police in southeast Michigan say a man called to complain that a woman he had agreed to pay…
Quebec election 2012: Hoping for a minority
In a parliamentary system, we usually hope for a majority for our preferred party because this gives them the power to implement their policies. However, there are several situations where…
And This is Democracy, the Greatest Democracy?
From the HBO series, The Newsroom And then there’s Clint
Sept. 1: Did I miss something?
It was the scariest thing I have ever seen, a monster gathering of braying jackasses to choose the man who could be the next leader of the most powerful country…
The Leaders We Deserve
French diplomat Joseph de Maistre once famously opined that “in a democracy, people get the leaders they deserve.” Taken alongside the more esoteric “decisions are made by those who bother…
Harper Government Pressured Mexico To Nuke Peaceful Excellon Protests
Evidence suggests that the Harper Government pressured Mexico to nuke peaceful protests at Canadian company Excellon Resources Inc’s La Platosa Mine.
Saturday Morning Links
This and that to start your long weekend. – Antonia Zerbisias and Thomas Walkom both discuss the connection between organized labour and the very existence of a substantial middle class.…