Government Buries Other Scandals While Robocall Controversy Rages
I’m having a hectic weekend and will have some new work to put on the Vote Fraud List hopefully this evening. In the meantime, I really hesitated to publish this…
2012
Toronto Maple Leafs: America’s Team?
I don’t have much time for Don Cherry, Brian Burke or the Toronto Maple Leafs. I like even less Hockey Night in Canada whose warped coverage of hockey is not…
You can’t make this stuff up
So the politician who used to spill plenty of ink to deride other politicians for holding town halls decided to hold one on his own. (More likely, it was decided…
Information gatekeeping: the news that didn’t fit
This past week the corporate media chose en masse not to follow two stories of considerable interest to Canadians. 1. Frank Graves poll. The media normally love polls, but in…
4310…Love Story
Was a sappy film that was all the rage 40 plus years ago. Roy MacGregor wrote a great piece in The Globe And Mail yesterday about David Johnston, our Governor…
Leadership 2012 Roundup
I haven’t done a roundup post in quite some time (having focused instead on candidate analysis and preliminary endorsement posts over the past week). But in advance of today’s Montreal…
RoboCon: The CIMS has Poutine’s Greasy Thumbprint
How many people play The Sims? Are you going to create a character called Pierre Poutine? Tracey Kent @TraceyKent @4got @tondamacc A CIMS user cannot make changes, run queries…
Voter Suppression – March 11 Toronto Protest
As I suspect is the case with most political bloggers, I offer commentary and provide links to important stories because I love my country and am very concerned about the…
Sleepin’ Forzanis
Sportchek – a business going sideways, fast. A close friend was talking about getting some new shoes lately, and that made me think back on Sportchek, a business that used…
Cheater
There is an interesting tension underneath the robocall story, the debate about resonance, “legs”, staying power, inside, outside, how much impact this scandal is truly having with the general public.…
sunday, march 11: toronto rally for democracy
Yesterday the rallies kicked off in Vancouver. Next Sunday is Toronto’s turn. Demand a complete, public inquiry into election fraud in the 2011 election. Demand a by-elections! Toronto:Sunday, March 11,…
@jm_mcgrath, Rob Ford, and municipal governance | #TOpoli
What #TOpoli social-media types get up to on Saturday nights. Sad, isn’t it. Seriously, though, a thoughtful, well-argued piece that raises several worthwhile questions about our current governing structures —…
Electoral and Parliamentary Reform (part 2)
Electoral reform All the electoral reform in theworld, everybody getting out and voting, more partys represented inthe mix, even a better quality of representative will not make oneiota of difference…
I think as much of Don Cherry…
…as I do morons like Pierre Polievre, Vic Toews and Dean Del Mastro… but his rant on Brian Burke (GM of the Leafs for those of you not-so-enlightened) was dead…
Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
“Guard your light and protect it. Move it forward into the world and be fully confident that if we connect light to light to light, and join the lights together…
Sleep all You Want, But Don’t Cut!
Well the story says it all for itself. A Conservative MP sleeps at a committee session on veterans. Now before you bash the Conservative sleeping and saying that he doesn’t…
Dear Alison…
When your bitumen belches carbon into the atmosphere, remember that Ontario is rapidly closing all its coal-burning power plants to reduce our pan-Canadian footprint for greenhouse gases. I don’t hear…
Terminology Matters
There is a saying “Tell me how you’ll measure me and I’ll tell you how I’ll behave” If so then we shouldn’t be surprised when political operatives working out of…