Women pushing Romney to the top in Battleground States
Obama had had a very comfortable margin over Romney with women voters. But since his incompetent debate performance, women have given Mitt Romney a second look. And now many of…
October 2012
Ambulances spending 21% more time in hospitals
The new Ontario Municipal Benchmarking Initiative public report indicates that ambulances (and by extension paramedics) are spending more and more time in hospitals. For the thirteen (mostly large) Ontario communities…
Fight The Right on RCI!
Right here – and, by the way, James Moore: re-fund RCI now!
Ready or not; here it comes
Canada’s real economic situation is becoming quite apparent. Alberta’s deficit situation is looking grim, and household debt is ‘worse than expected‘. The general outlook of Canada’s economy is quickly turning.…
Ontario hiding savings from lower interest rates
The Ontario government Fall Economic Statement and Fiscal Review ignores and hides billions savings the province will gain from lower borrowing rates in coming years. While this statement acknowledges that…
Arthur Topham Update
The latest update on the saga of Arthur Topham can be found here. For those unfamiliar with his story, a hate speech complaint (criminal code section 319) was recently filed…
Call to action
On October 22, 2012 join and support people from across Canada in BC’s Capital in defending our coast from tar sands tankers and pipelines. Then, on October 24th, in communities…
CEP votes overwhelmingly in favour of CAW merger
Inspired by this headline: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/story/2012/10/15/wdr-cep-vote-caw-merger.html
Rolling Stone: Inside The FBI Plot Against Occupy
On this one year anniversary of the Occupy Canada movement, here’s a magnificent piece of reporting by Rolling Stone‘s Sabrina Rubin Erdely, on how the United States government “turned five…
Today’s big poll
“Liberal poll numbers climb over NDP as leadership starts.” A few quick thoughts… I looked at the dates over which this poll was conducted, first: “The telephone survey of 1,000…
Novelty, Hockey Strikes, and iphones. . . .
I supposed many people have always been obsessed with novelty. For some people the new is always better than the old. But, at the risk of sounding old myself, it…
Kobo Mini Review
I bought a $80 Kobo Mini last week. Here is my review: The good -It is pocket size (including jeans pocket) -At only 134g, it feels very lite in your…
Keystone XL Contractor and SUNY Buffalo Shale Institute Conduct LA County’s Fracking Study
A huge report was published on Oct. 10 by Los Angeles County that’ll likely open the floodgates for hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) for unconventional oil and gas in the Monterey Shale…
Best political slogan I have heard in a long, long time
Perhaps ever. Only thing that I dislike is now we McGuinty Liberals can’t use it in the campaign that Hudak and Hudak Helper are pushing for!
Household debt going from bad to worse
Canadians are now more indebted than either Americans or the Brits at the peak of their housing bubble. Statistics Canada today revised the national accounts. The result on the household…
Canada’s Shame-The Alberta Tar Sands Revealed
This graphic video undresses the warm fuzzy PR spin advanced by the Oil Barons. They are more than willing to sacrifice northern Alberta for profits. It is worse, the greenhouse…
5237…The Mouse That Roared
Gabon. A little ole African country that was colonized and dominated by the French forever has decided that it has had enough. It has changed its official language from French…
Rachlis tireless in myth-busting around health care sustainability
It’s good to see Dr. Michael Rachlis on the opinion pages of today’s Toronto Star. Rachlis has been tireless in his myth-busting around the sustainability of health care. As he…
Dunderdale hits new record #nlpoli
Premier Kathy Dunderdale made a record-setting change to the senior ranks of the provincial public service on Friday with the appoint of Peter Au as the new assistant deputy minister…