4328…And No One Gives A F*ck
I am on the campus of Canada’s 46th best university, Carleton, and the buzz is non existent. One would think that there would be a bit of buzz due to…
2012
Friday miscellany…
… O M G! The SKY is falling edition… Literally. The sky. Falling. Yup. The sun burps and we all freak out. Oh no! The GPS on my iPhone might…
Iran under siege … for 2,500 years
David Cameron hoisted himself onto the world stage once again, as he is wont to do, and declared Iran an international threat. This is rich coming from a British PM.…
Open questions
As discussed in some of the comments to this post, there seems to be plenty of room for the NDP’s leadership candidates to provide much-needed information on how they want…
Walking while Black in Toronto
From the folks who brought you the G20 thugfest (above). The statistics are now plain for everyone to see: Toronto police are making a habit of stopping Black and brown…
Robocon: Can this Tory help find Pierre Poutine?
Andrew Prescott Canada’s Woodward & Bernstein journalists (the intrepid Glen McGregor and Stephen Maher), have a report this morning about some tweets in Guelph before the questionable election of May…
Farming in the City: Make environmental legislation flexible!
Cities are blanketed by a mesh of rules. Some of them are well known and clearly signaled (think traffic lights). Others only become visible when you start asking questions about…
Voter Suppression Crimes: A Pattern of Centralization Emerges
While the Harper regime has been busy casting aspersions on those who are claiming foul over their alleged tactics during the last federal election, a pattern is beginning to emerge…
I’m moving to Vancouver
My time in Saskatoon has come to an end. My partner and I will be moving to Vancouver on April 1 — no joke! Since arriving from Montreal three and…
Atlantic Canada Polling Yay!
The ever-intrepid Corporate Research Associates, those who do basically all the polling for the Atlantic provinces provincially, are out with their newest quarterly numbers for all four provinces. Let’s start…
Roboscam: Harper’s Speaker™ drops the hammer
This is infuriating. The Speaker of the House of Commons is now ruling opposition questions about Roboscam out of order: “Questions have to touch on the administrative responsibilities of government…
GM To Cancel Funding For Heartland Institute?
They are thinking about it, and that’s a start. Another online pressure campaign may have paid off.
Forum Research – 37-28-25
If you need further proof that the robocalls scandal has either not hit its full stride yet, or has failed to capture the imagination of voters as a “true” scandal…
Friday morning Robocon blogging
The Sixth Estate‘s crowd-sourced list of ridings where voters received “hoax” phone calls during last spring’s federal election campaign has now grown to 77. The establishment media reporting may be…
Why RoboCon matters to me, and Conservatives
I keep encountering Canadians who think the illegal robocalls scandal is no big deal. They suggest that many of the ridings that were won by Conservatives, were in bigger margins…
Robocall affair not going away any time soon
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few weeks, the robocall affair has been, if not a topic of water cooler conversation, at least of some interest.…
Robocall affair not going away any time soon
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few weeks, the robocall affair has been, if not a topic of water cooler conversation, at least of some interest.…
Robocall affair not going away any time soon
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few weeks, the robocall affair has been, if not a topic of water cooler conversation, at least of some interest.…