The medium size…
The medium sized 22 cats book measures roughly 6 by 8 inches, or 15 by 20 cm. It contains the same 22 images as the small 22 cats book which…
October 2012
Globe and Mail on higher education in Canada
The Globe and Mail has just launched an in-depth feature on higher education in Canada, an installment of their Our Time to Lead series. For a couple of weeks, you…
More From Allan Gregg: In Defence of Reason
Pollster Allan Gregg, now spending much of his time offering critiques of the Harper regime and its dangerous demagogic inclinations, has written a followup to his talk “1984 in 2012:…
Are Coal Mine Employees Forced To Support Romney?
According to a Federal Election Commission complaint filed by the Democratic Party of Ohio, employees for coal mining company Murray Energy have been coerced by their bosses into not only…
Time to Rethink The Way We Fund Higher Education
This September, like every year, a new group of high school graduates headed to college or university to pursue higher education. But today’s generation of students is in for a…
B.C. Is Special
From The G&M: The Conservatives have always seemed like a party that was a few slices short of a loaf. For years it hung around the fringes of the B.C.…
Mitt Romney Sings His Agenda
Enjoy!
Free-Fall from space
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Microsoft’s vacuous new news portal
Microsoft is undoubtedly hoping that its new news portal, to launch concurrently with Windows 8 and be heavily Metro UI based, will revolutionize our consumption of news. Or at least,…
Income Inequality In Canada – The Broadbent Institute
It’s time to spark a national policy debate that reflects the steady moves by the Right to enrich corporations at the expense of average working families. OTTAWA — “Canada is…
Oct. 9:
Section A is the usual series of trivia. There is the daily story on the Oland mystery, with its daily message that there is still nothing much to say about…
Stephen Harper’s Glowing Congratulations for Chavez’s Re-Election
Can you smell the indignation? Note the lack of commentary from the prime minister or foreign affairs minister. October 8, 2012 – The Honourable Diane Ablonczy, Minister of State of…
Latest Daily Kos PPP Poll – Obama does not do well
A Public Policy Polling poll of 1,300 likely voters over the period October 4 to 7 has a wealth of results, with some interesting changes in the standings nationally of…
How the NHL Lockout Could Devastate the CBC by Ian Morrison
FRIENDS calculates that the CBC will suffer a devastating financial loss of as much as $200 million annually if it loses the rights to Hockey Night in Canada in 2014…
Parliamentary Secrecy Continues: House Committees Spent 55% of Time in Camera in September
MPs are back at work and, under the Harper regime, that means that they are once again spending a considerable portion of their “public” time actually meeting behind closed doors,…
Fight the Right on Strombo!
Me on Stombo’s panel, last week. Was fun. Click on the link, at about the 14 minute mark.
Christy Clark Disaster Update : I told Ya so!
When someone yearns for the spotlight and dreams of becoming premier, yet shows little interest in policy ideas and little patience or ability for the details of public administration, they…
#withoutanewstadium
I’ve written plenty about Regina’s municipal election over the past few days. But I’ll take some time to encourage readers to join the conversation as early voting approaches. With the…