As the mind ponders… #nlpoli
labradore takes a unique look at the results of this week’s Quebec general election and wonders what might have happened if a few votes shifted around. “What if”can be a…
September 2012
K-W and Vaughan take note: Ten reasons not to vote for Tim Hudak’s Ontario PCs
His own party doesn’t like him. He has crazy policies. He was prepared to force an election months after the last one. He is prepared to put politics before peoples’…
Rob Ford’s Bizarre Defence Is Undemocratic
Update: This is now also cross-posted up at Huffington Post Canada. This is just bizarre: “Like I said, for the last 13 years, I’ve always defined a conflict of interest…
Rob Ford’s Bizarre Defence Is Undemocratic
Update: This is now also cross-posted up at Huffington Post Canada. This is just bizarre: “Like I said, for the last 13 years, I’ve always defined a conflict of interest…
140Law – Legal Headlines for Thursday, September 6, 2012
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Thursday, September 06, 2012: Human Rights Report: Bush Admin. Used Waterboarding on Libyans in Afghanistan A primer on…
Compatible quirks
GC and I went to Haveli’s in the market for the all-you-can-eat Indian lunch buffet a couple of weeks ago. Before eating, I paid a visit to the washroom, where…
Clinton Hits A Home Run
Whatever your politics, you have to admire Bill Clinton’s ability to give a stem winding speech at a critical moment. He did it again last night at the Democratic Convention…
Kitchener-Waterloo and Vaughan – An Update
Never to be outdone by Quebec, Ontario politics have been gearing up for a showdown of rather epic proportions today: by-elections in Kitchener-Waterloo and Vaughan. In these two ridings hangs…
Hebert on Charest
Quote: “…every federal party would kill to get its hands on a proven federalist campaigner who can bring in 50 Quebec seats after three gruelling mandates.” See? I’m not crazy.…
Clinton rocked
A little bit of Bill to start your day. Massive speech last night: Watching Bill Clinton take the stage at the Democratic National Convention and take over the room with…
Toronto Sun: Our Sexist Religion is Good, Theirs is Bad
The Gideons have a strange knack for inciting controversy, and they’ve done it again. Ontario pundits are in a tizzy over a new human rights case filed by an atheist…
Autism and Education: Conor Votes For FLEXIBLE Inclusion
Conor got up at 6 am today, as he has for the last 2+ months to mark down the number of days to school. He started doing this with 65…
Canadian Hindu Advocacy Kicks Teh Crazy Up A Notch
A few weeks back, Queen’s Parked hosted Toronto’s annual Al Quds day event. This is where a bunch of middle eastern types get together and protest the Israeli occupation of…
Ontario By-Election Predictions for Today
Today is the beginning of the end of Tim Hudak’s leadership experiment. Today, Tim Whodat will lose not one, but two by-elections. In Vaughan, the Liberals and Steven Del Duca…
School begins again
Forty-eight years ago this week, I departed small town Powell River and took up residence at UBC’s still under construction Totem Park student housing. In those days, males and females…
Joe Oliver’s natural resources new economics
Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver was in Toronto on Tuesday to give a speech and kick off the fall with some new economic data produced by his department. This is…
As the Public Service World Churns #nlpoli
The Telegram editorial on Wednesday noted the most recent changes to the senior executive at the natural resources department and put it in the wider context of changes during the…
Rights & Democracy Down the Memory Hole?
Does anyone know if there’s an archived website for the former Rights & Democracy organization? http://www.dd-rd.ca seems to have gone offline, and the Harper regime shuttered the organization this summer.…
The Quebec Shooting and the Hatred that Kills
For a Montrealer like me, who lives and plays happily in both solitudes, and is always trying to bring Quebecers and Canadians together, it was the ultimate nightmare. An old…