Canadians: too polite, too passive?
One more example of price gouging that faces Canadians every day. Live in Point Roberts WA, pay Amazon $76.39. Live two kilometres north in Tsawwassen BC, pay Amazon $149.99 for…
2012
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Vision Wants to Take Back Naming Rights to Parks
A motion is coming forward to the Park Board on Monday 19 March which will take the naming of parks out of the hands of the community and put it…
The ubiquitous economist, the media, and Plato
It is odd. No other discipline in the social science gets away with being considered by the media as a jack of all trades as the economist does. Think about…
Web Developer Mystery Man….At Least McLovin Actually Had I.D.
FoolUsOnce,ShameOnWe WeWon’tBeFooledAgainVille And what a fine I.D. it was… **** And apropos of absolutely nothing at all, it would appear that there is a RackNine mystery man afoot for whom…
Radio Topics, March 20th
Happy Tuesday! We’ve got an exciting show lined up, so tune in at 7am on CKCU! At 8:05, we’ll speak with Citizen’s for Safe Cycling President Hans Moor about their…
4356…Are You That Three In 6.45 Million?
My buddy Len Berman passes this gem from the NCAA’s March Madness along: 2. Sweet 16 So who had #10 Xavier, #11 North Carolina State and #13 Ohio in their…
4355…The Problem With The Dippers
Is that they would rather be right than win. That is why Ed Broadbent and the other failures/establishment of the NDP don’t like Thomas Mulcair. He wants to win. The…
4354…Mike And Molly: What If
One the mega fat stars of the CBS comedy lose a big chunk of weight? And we don’t have super fat cops in Ottawa or Gatineau or Montreal; are super…
4353…Mound Of Sound: Here Is Why Ed B Sucked
Ed B is Ed Broadbent and I said that he failed. Here is why. He never got in power. That’s why they keep score; silver medal is for the first…
Liberals need an aggressive communications strategy
The only way to stop the Conservative attack machine is to hit it back, hard. This means creating an attack ad that will register with viewers, something that the Liberals…
Is It Just Me, or Does Anyone Else Find the Timing of the Latest Harpercon Ads a Tad Curious?
Yep, boys ‘n’ girls, the Harpercons have come out with a new shiny thing–an attack ad against the Liberal interim leader, Bob Rae. I guess it’s never too early to…
Conservatives Unite, Liberals & NDP Divide
It is widely known that over the last few years a certain political group has been arrogant, close-minded, and divisive, what may come as a surprise is that group is…
Politics Has Changed
In case you didn’t already know (and really, why would you if you don’t live in Toronto…or even if you do), today is by-election day in the late Jack Layton’s…
Federal Tories take just 5% in Toronto-Danforth byelection that elects newest openly gay MP!
The Conservatives are a fringe party in downtown Toronto. Even at their lowest popularity, the federal Liberals always did much, much better in opposition riding by-elections than tonight’s pathetic 5%…
Subway fetishists, snake oil, and Scarborough | #TOpoli #transit
So Team Ford’s subway boosters were out in force tonight, substituting boosterism and catchphrases for facts and evidence. Just one question, guys: if the private sector is just waiting to…
And the winner is…
And the winner* of the riding of Toronto-Danforth is… *Refresh to see results from Elections Canada.
The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
Walter Bagehot
Defending “Rae Days”
Unlike his two immediate predecessors who unwisely allowed themselves to be negatively defined by relentless campaigns of character assassination from the Conservatives, Bob Rae is making it clear that he’s…
On Day Six of Indefinite Bill C-10 Hunger Strike, Obert Madondo Addresses Canadian MPs
Honorable MP, what is happening to Canada? At 12:01am on Wednesday, March 14, I embarked on an indefinite hunger strike whose demand is: the Parliament of Canada immediately repeal the…