Back to School Tips – Movie Monday
So, while all the little little kiddies went back to school last week, the bigger kiddies are heading back to classes today in most cases. Given that, I thought I…
September 2012
Fun at Calgary’s Oil and Bank Towers
I am away from my computer for two weeks, as my husband and I explore more of one of our favourite places in Canada, Newfoundland (AKA “The Rock”). While I’m…
Foot Apparel for the Discerning and Fearless Lady
Despite his bulbous legs and intimidating appearance, customers liked Robby’s warmth and genuine desire to make them happy. (He was programmed that way, but still.) The only down side? Robby’s…
The Avro Arrow?
Could it be resurrected? Well, the idea is being talked about. But it’ll never “fly”. LOL! I kill me! So why not? Well, as I never got around to doing…
Christian Group Sues School Board Over Lesson Plans
A group calling itself the “Parental Rights in Education Defense Fund” along with an anonymous “beleaguered parent” is suing the Ontario school system for not providing advance notice of gay…
The Swirl Continues #nlpoli
As it appears, all the talk last week in the Telegram editorial about the unusually large churn in the senior ranks of the provincial public service caused a bit of…
The Occupy Movement and the Quebec Students
It's been almost a year since the Occupy Wall Street movement was born, and in this very gloomy article Gerald Caplan wonders where it went. It flashed through our lives…
Why was the Iran Embassy Closed?
When Peter MacKay’s outspoken wife Nazanin Afshin-jam announced in July that Canada should shut down the Iranian embassy in Ottawa, on the nebulous charge that it was using cultural events…
Open The TPP campaign turns heads at negotiations
Over the past week, we’ve been asking you to submit your comments, images and opinions regarding the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Yesterday, our coalition partners met with negotiators and shared your feedback…
How Reducing The GST Increased Your Debt
With declining productivity, higher unemployment, and deficit after deficit, it should be obvious the Canadian government would do anything to strengthen the economy, however it is not so obvious what…
Video: Sustainable South Osborne
The Riverview Hoop House was one of the projects on display during a walking tour of urban agricultural projects organized by the Sustainable South Osborne Community Co-op in June in…
The Liberals should champion the Arrow
There’s a story going around that a small design group is pitching a revised design of the Avro Arrow as an alternative to the Conservative’s F35s with its skyrocketing price…
Harper’s wish for war with Iran: an ill Tory wind that blows no good for Canada
Unlike Prime Minister Stephen Harper, the Doge of the Most Serene Republic of Venice was prepared to receive the ambassadors of Persia. Below: Igor Gouzenko, Dr. Samuel Johnson and Winston…
Time to stop stressing about Québec
We Canadians love to worry, we worry about the economy, about the weather, about the direction our elected representatives are taking the country. When we’ve had Liberal governments in Ottawa,…
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Pan Am Games a consolation prize for CBC by Bruce Dowbiggin
Columnist says CBC’s acquisition of the TV rights to the Pan Am Games is a natural fit for the current mandate of placating its government critics first and then trying…
My response to Tom Flangan – Canadian super PACs.
Tom Flanagan, wrote a piece a while back in the Globe and Mail, in response to the Working Families Coalition in Ontario. I touched on this organization and unions involvement…
Lies, Damned Lies, and Open Data
I have an article titles Lies, Damn Lies and Open Data in Slate Magazine as part of their Future Tense series. Here, for me, is the core point: On the…