A Taste of Things to Come?
So, my friend over at www.nuncscio.com remarked to me a couple of weeks back that Canadian politics tends to be about 5-10 years behind that of our American cousins. He,…
2012
Provincial election???
My guess is the NDP will back the budget, at least to the extent of having a couple of members stay out of the voting — but it will be…
As Harper Prepares Attack Ads To Paint The NDP As Fiscally ‘Risky’ We Find New Brunswick CONSERVATIVES Driving Provincial Debt Up To $11 Billion …
Unfortunately there are no ‘truth in advertising’ regulations when it comes to political attack ads. As I post this, Stephen Harper’s propaganda-meisters are preparing TV ads that are going to…
Talking About Cities With People Who Don’t Live in One
When it comes to talking about the divide between urban and non-urban living there’s more differences than just who lives in a more sustainable community. People living in non-urban areas…
Jean Delville: ‘Parsifal’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQOfIENN2tk&feature=b-vrec
Sufficient reasons required
R. v. D.A., 2012 ONCA 200 is a good illustration of the need for trial judges to be careful in giving reasons that fully set out the basis for judgment.…
Why Thomas Mulcair gets it when it comes to Israel
Not surprisingly, Thomas Mulcair won the NDP leadership last month, replacing Saint Jack Layton as the man social democrats hope can rally left-of-centre voters to defeat Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s…
Discredited economics and the revered economist
In the wake of the financial crisis of 2007-2008 there was much talk from within and without the economics profession about what went wrong. Many on the outside of the…
Vic Has A Warning For All of Us
Our alleged Public Safety Minister, Vic Toews, issued the following warning today: Online hacker group Anonymous a threat to us all Maybe. Or perhaps it is a threat only to…
Harper’s latest F-35 big 180
Harper yesterday: While the government isn’t giving any guarantees Canada will buy the F-35, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said the country will remain involved in the stealth fighter project to…
Video: This is what a public servant looks like | @kristynwongtam <3 #TOpoli
As I tweeted last week: I think I love @kristynwongtam. Quiet, reasonable, thoughtful, classy – and kicking #TeamFord ass. #TOpoli — Sol Chrom (@sol_chrom) March 22, 2012 Related posts: Politics,…
We can do better… we must do better
Number 5 Driving me to blog about public issues is passion for my grandchildren to inherit a better world. Unfortunately, the more I learn about the roads we travel, the…
The Illusory Savings of Hiking the Age of Eligibility for OAS
Former Assistant Chief Statistician Michael Wolfson shows that governments collectively stand to save very little from hiking the age of eligibility for the OAS/GIS, a measure that is widely expected…
What film industry?
Film tax credit won’t return: Premier Brad Wall says his government will not reinstate the film employment tax credit cut in last week’s budget, but it is willing to consider…
Beginning of The End for Big Oil’s Billion Dollar Subsidies?
oil-drum-stuffed-with-money.jpg Democratic Senator Bob Menendez (N.J.) has introduced legislation in the U.S. Senate to kill, once and for all, the billions of dollars worth of subsidies that are flowing from…
Trade Diversification: It’s Not What You Think
For my first post on Canadian Trends it seems only fitting I talk about trade diversification in light of Stephen Harper’s recent free trade meetings. It is (or should be)…
Tory and Dipper leader in approvals tie in NL: poll #nlpoli
An unspecified number of people polled online in Newfoundland and Labrador by Angus-Reid approved almost equally of the job done by e Premier Kathy Dunderdale and New Democratic party leader…
Guest Post: The Progressive Consensus
Last week, I pointed out Greg Lyle’s polling showing that the NDP’s brand of social democracy enjoys plenty of popular support as a primary value system for a party seeking…