Mostly competent campaigning?
A number of my colleagues in the blogosphere are pointing to this interview with Conservative MP Maurice Vellacott this morning. As the Saskatchewan MP describes it, the Conservative Party of…
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The Latest Drivel From John Ibbitson
But they went a long way to containing the damage when Prime Minister Stephen Harper, in the House, and the election campaign chair Guy Giorno, on television, declared emphatically that…
Cartt.ca INVESTIGATES: The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Columnist says that while on balance the CBC has done an admirable job reflecting Canada and Canadians back to ourselves, it is the advent of multiplatform media that will help…
Myth Busting Activity Based Funding
Activity Based Funding (ABF) is a benign sounding name for fee-for-service financing of hospitals and other health care organizations. It is usually advocated by fee market supporters as giving patients…
Dear Laura Coppens and Angelika Levi,
Anak-Anak Srikandi/ Children of Srikandi Official Trailer from Srikandi Films on Vimeo. It is admirable that your film, Children of Srikandi, is the first to address the lives of queer…
On best-case scenarios
Any organization faces questions in trying to make the best use of the resources available to it. And in most cases, a deliberative body should be able to consider who…
Reputation Mismanagement
A month ago, the governments of Canada and Alberta announced a $50 million program to monitor environmental impacts of the oil sands. The ministers boasted that this effort would prove…
Censorship @ Huffington Post re. Syria?
“he turmoil in the Middle East this past year has morphed into a battleground for much larger interests – economic, political, financial – and the players see this as an…
Maurice Vellacott on the MASSIVE Con-job
It was only a matter of time before a Conservative confirmed what we already know: The Conservative Party’s central campaign office in Ottawa takes charge of all Elections Canada voter…
Wednesday Morning Robocon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Stephen Maher and Glen McGregor dig deeper into the story behind Robocon alias Pierre Poutine. – Maurice Vellacott admits that the voter lists…
How Litigation Should Be
From a real ad in Ontario.
Portraits of Nurses at War
A small selection of photographs from the National Archives of Canada. Nurses have served with the Canadian military since Northwest Rebellion in 1885 and small contingents were sent to the…
Nunavut gets two new judges – both excellent choices!
Andrew Mahar, Bonnie Tulloch named to Nunavut Court of Justice March 2 NUNATSIAQ NEWS The federal Department of Justice announced two new judicial appointments to the Nunavut Court of Justice…
Poll-dancing
No doubt Barbara Yaffe’s column this morning—dissing Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition and pretending the Liberals are once again in second place—would be seen by her and her collegial in-group as…
BC Teachers On Strike Yet Still Teaching
This week Teachers in BC haven’t even been in the classroom, yet they’ve still managed to teach their students one of the most important things; how to take a stand.…
Green Spaces Can Reduce Gun Violence
Countries and regions with a lot of gun violence may want to note that the simple act of providing more green space in urban areas can reduce gun-related crime. In…
Can Geeks Defeat Lies? Thoughts on a Fresh New Approach to Dealing With Online Errors, Misrepresentations, and Quackery
fact check universe.png This afternoon, I’ll be at MIT for this conference, sponsored by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard and the MIT Center for Civic Media…
Studies on mortality questioned #nlpoli
Studies that claim exercise reduces the risk of mortality can’t be true since the risk of mortality is absolute. You can delay death, but it, like taxes and a Ryan…
RoboCon – It Doesn’t Matter One Rotting Dingo’s Kidney,…
Let’s be perfectly clear here, it Doesn’t Matter One Rotting Dingo’s Kidney whether the people who perpetrated the voter suppression crime in last years election are linked to the CPC,…