Team Trudeau trifecta
Gave a speech last week – and the week before that in Vancouver and Calgary – saying the same thing: the progressive coalition is women, young people and newcomers. Without…
November 2012
The Failures of Our Political Representatives
The other day over at Trapped in a Whirlpool, blogger Kev wrote a post entitled Irrelevant by Choice. In it, he lamented the failure ofParliamentary-backbenchers to do the job they…
OLP: 140 tweet-able characters to describe the next Premier
We need a winner, who wins outside Toronto. Who’s all about jobs, not controversy. A uniter, not a divider. Honest, frugal, tough, smart. There’s only one person who meets that…
Aboriginal title
In Canadian law all lands are subject to the Crown, and this has been true since Britain acquired much of Eastern Canada from France by the Treaty of Paris (1763).…
Pay Now Or Pay Later
The devastation which Hurricane Sandy visited on the American east coast has generated a lot of attention. So did Hurricane Katrina. But neither storm appears to have spurred legislators into…
Interesting – clearly seeking consensus
http://m.voanews.com/1543849.htmlOn Sunday, Syrian opposition groups elected moderate cleric Maath al-Khatib to lead the new body. They also chose businessman Riad Seif and well-known female activist Suhair al-Attasi as vice presidents.
Star candidate
Sigh. Here we go again. Here’s one from the archives: “Just study the case heretofore be known as the Toronto Star, et al. vs. Rob Ford. The Star threw everything…
Forty-seven signs of the apocalypse (#31)
From the Book of the Blessed Pie It shall come to pass that the Pharisees of the Hut will take the Blessed Pie and unto it they shall do wicked…
Sweden Trashes Canada In Renewable Energy
Read more: Sweden Wants Your Trash
Gruending On Remembrance Day
One might be tempted to consign T.T. Shields and his demagoguery to the past but it is not so different from a recent program that I saw on CTS Television.…
Some Thoughts on Politics, Myth, and Identity #nlpoli
Your humble e-scribbler saw a couple of comments last week that said the NDP town hall on Muskrat Falls was a good argument against having a referendum on the megaproject. …
Rocket Science
via XKCD (of course)
Harperland and the Big Pig’s Baby
OMG. In the darkness of Harperland I sometimes can't decide whether it's like living in Orwell's 1984, or on his Animal Farm. Or both at the same time.But what I…
International Open Data Day – An Update
(Can’t read the whole post? Important stuff is highlighted in grey below.) Two years ago, I met some open data advocates from Brazil and Ottawa, and we schemed of doing…
Video: Kinder Morgan Vancouver Pipeline, Tanker Debate
On Oct 30, the Board of Change hosted a debate in Vancouver on American energy pipeline giant Kinder Morgan's plans to turn Vancouver into a shipping port to access new…
Next year country
Sigh
Lili Marlene- Marlene Dietricht
So many memories and such wonderful music that relected and softened the roughest edges of the time