There’s Your Problem – Too Damned Much Wiggle Room
The wrench in the gears that prevents meaningful international action on global change is the enormous wiggle room in the debate. This arises, in large part, because of the opportunity…
November 2012
Nobody Loves The Mayor
Calling the situation a “crisis” for city hall, Coun. Giorgio Mammoliti, a Ford ally, said he would not support a byelection because he thinks it would be a waste of…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Paul Boothe discusses the dangers of giving in to resource-boom hype rather than planning for sustainable development:The resource roller coaster and the crazy…
Jerome’s Jawbone of an Ass #nlpoli
Last week Premier Kathy Dunderdale told the House of Assembly something that was patently not true. She said that the public utilities board had endorsed the Muskrat Falls project. She…
By-Election Breakdown
- It is up for fair debate whether or not the Trudeau/McGuinty comments cost the Liberal Party the Calgary Center seat. There is no question Liberals had wind at their…
By-Election Breakdown
– It is up for fair debate whether or not the Trudeau/McGuinty comments cost the Liberal Party the Calgary Center seat. There is no question Liberals had wind at their…
By-Election Breakdown
- It is up for fair debate whether or not the Trudeau/McGuinty comments cost the Liberal Party the Calgary Center seat. There is no question Liberals had wind at their…
By-Election Breakdown
– It is up for fair debate whether or not the Trudeau/McGuinty comments cost the Liberal Party the Calgary Center seat. There is no question Liberals had wind at their…
A Solar Powered Combustion Engine May Be in Your Future
This may sound counter-intutitive, but researches have begun a project to build an internal combustion engine (a common car engine) that runs off of solar power. Instead of using gas…
140Law – Legal Headlines for Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Tuesday, November 27, 2012: BC Legal aid lawyers start job action New Canadian copyright law accepts everyday activities…
Rob Ford And The Peter Principle
Christie Blatchford is furious. Yesterday a judge removed the man she voted for because, as she wrote last Friday, he was "authentic." In her mind, authenticity trumps an unjust law:So,…
Are You Listening, Politicos? Health Care Is What Matters to Canadians
Most interesting survey got quite a bit of press yesterday: Canadians hold the health care system more important than any other characteristic of their country.As the Globe and Mail reported:…
P3 costs rise as scandal sours investors
MUHC The Washington Post reports that the sales "of Canadian project-finance bonds are lower this year as an ongoing investigation of alleged corruption in the Quebec construction industry makes the…
Free and Not Free
So Everton Zanella Alvarenga tossed a hand-grenade into the OER discussion group: "An interesting text by Stallman... On-line education is using a flawed Creative Commons license ... 'the CC-BY-NC and…
On post-mortems
Alice offers up the definitive analysis of last night's federal by-elections, and I won't go over too much of the same territory. But I'll quickly add a few observations for…
A Sad Spectacle
“This comes down to left-wing politics. The left wing wants me out of here and they’ll do anything in their power. I’m going to fight tooth and nail to hold…
Fonts of The Fridgularity
TYPOGRAPHY One of the ideas that I play with in The Fridgularity is that the entity Zathir — you know, the one that takes over the Internet and promptly locks…
In today’s Sun: quotes and votes work – and they worked against us in Calgary Centre
In political war rooms, it’s called “quotes and votes.” Digging up embarrassing old statements by an opponent and publicizing them, that is. Also, dusting off long-ago missed legislative votes, or…
Rob Ford: That’s the trouble with mandatory minimum sentences
A few comments have pointed out that Rob Ford would not have been removed from office if the judge had discretion in "sentencing". Good point -- mandatory minimum sentencing means…