One Term More
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October 2012
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Lance Armstrong, Doping, and Testicular Cancer
The reason we have to stand up against performance-enhancing drugs is not because it’s cheating. It’s not to protect the people who bet on sports. The idea of protecting gamblers…
War waged on wilderness
Read more HERE.
Lib-Dem cooperation: That was then, this is now
Before, it was time to “start looking at that.” Now, it isn’t “interesting.” Get that? Me neither. I’m sure it will all be explained to us. Eventually.
The OGP at Year One: Off the Ground – So Where Next?
I’ve got a post up at Tech President assessing the accomplishments and challenges facing the Open Government Partnership on its first year of operations…
Terry Tremaine: Dumb. Very Dumb.
On Monday we had suggested that we would likely learn what Terry Tremaine's sentence for contempt would be, however that obviously didn't happen. Today we learned a possible reason for…
Heritage Foundation Distributes List Of Fallacies Regarding Obama’s Energy Policies
In an attempt to paint President Obama as bad for the U.S. economy, the Heritage Foundation recently released a list of the top ten ways in which the President’s energy…
XL Too Big for Food Safety – Rick Mercer Rant Nails It
The tainted meat scandal that continues to dominate Canadian news headlines has provoked harsh criticism of XL Foods – the company at the centre of the nation’s largest ever meat…
Vancouver Sun: Canada joins TPP as critics warn Internet rights will suffer
Canada has now been formally admitted into the closed-door negotiations of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a trade agreement that could lead to harsh Internet restrictions and severe fines for everyday…
The Deadly Myths of Globalisation
What follows is the introduction to a talk I gave at the 3rd Innis Christie Lecture & Symposium in Labour and Employment Law. My sister was educated at the Dalhousie…
Weekend Fun: Community Cleanup and beery rewards
Fall is awesome. But it sure is busy – packed full of community events, and new traditions seem to be added each year. There is some fun stuff in the…
Mercer does the beef recall
And P.S. Gerry Ritz should be fired.
Harper must kick Conservative MP Rob Anders out of office: Canadians
Here’s your chance to engage in the noble task of cleansing Canadian politics of incompetent, offensive and bigoted politicians. The likes of Conservative MP Rob Anders. Hundreds of Canadians have…
Regulating raw bitumen exports: an extremist notion or Conservative election promise?
Wednesday, October 10, 2012 In 2008 the Conservative Party promised to ban the export of raw bitumen to countries with lower environmental standards. Wow! In all the excitement of Government…
Closing Potash Tax Loopholes
NDP leadership candidate Erin Weir is proposing to collect a fair return from the province’s potash by closing loopholes that allow corporations to avoid paying the existing Potash Production Tax.…
Rob Anders Says Something Stupid (Again)
My former MP, Rob Anders, a fierce opponent of “homosexual sex marriage,” has once again done something incredibly dumb. Rick Mercer explains it nicely.