Rob Ford And The Peter Principle
Christie Blatchford is furious. Yesterday a judge removed the man she voted for because, as she wrote last Friday, he was "authentic." In her mind, authenticity trumps an unjust law:So,…
2012
Are You Listening, Politicos? Health Care Is What Matters to Canadians
Most interesting survey got quite a bit of press yesterday: Canadians hold the health care system more important than any other characteristic of their country.As the Globe and Mail reported:…
P3 costs rise as scandal sours investors
MUHC The Washington Post reports that the sales "of Canadian project-finance bonds are lower this year as an ongoing investigation of alleged corruption in the Quebec construction industry makes the…
Free and Not Free
So Everton Zanella Alvarenga tossed a hand-grenade into the OER discussion group: "An interesting text by Stallman... On-line education is using a flawed Creative Commons license ... 'the CC-BY-NC and…
On post-mortems
Alice offers up the definitive analysis of last night's federal by-elections, and I won't go over too much of the same territory. But I'll quickly add a few observations for…
A Sad Spectacle
“This comes down to left-wing politics. The left wing wants me out of here and they’ll do anything in their power. I’m going to fight tooth and nail to hold…
Fonts of The Fridgularity
TYPOGRAPHY One of the ideas that I play with in The Fridgularity is that the entity Zathir — you know, the one that takes over the Internet and promptly locks…
In today’s Sun: quotes and votes work – and they worked against us in Calgary Centre
In political war rooms, it’s called “quotes and votes.” Digging up embarrassing old statements by an opponent and publicizing them, that is. Also, dusting off long-ago missed legislative votes, or…
Rob Ford: That’s the trouble with mandatory minimum sentences
A few comments have pointed out that Rob Ford would not have been removed from office if the judge had discretion in "sentencing". Good point -- mandatory minimum sentencing means…
How Changing Perspective Could Save Our Environment
It’s TED Talk Tuesday on 350orbust. Here is advertising expert and funny guy Rory Sutherland talking about how it’s possible to change the way people value things can have surprising…
The Globe And Mail Exits The Propertied Class
If only they'd launched that pay-wall a month earlier! They would surely have been saved! Now they have to scope-out an alternative site for their new HQ.
Calgary Centre votes: Conservative Joan Crockatt wins byelection
Close but no cigar
Conor, Autism Disorders and Traffic-Related Air Pollution
Photo by Harold L Doherty, Toronto, CN Tower, 2008 Conor Doherty, 1 Day Old, February 20, 1996 Joseph Brant Memorial Hospital, Burlington Photo by Dad A new study Traffic-Related Air…
Controlling Our Own Resources #nlpoli
A chance re-read of the Labrador Hydro Project Exemption Order last week led your humble e-scribbler to a surprising discovery. The powers granted under the Electrical Power Control Act, 1994…
Only 3 in 10 Calgary Centre Voters Voted
Seems shameful, no?
Taxpayers on hook for Liberal "campain" funding
BC Liberals and friends had better start worrying because Vaughn Palmer may be taking off gloves and blindfold. The pundit who has all the tools, and a toolbox, laid implements…
Toronto’s Ford Follies
Of course the mayor will now appeal his removal from office and attempt to run the clock until the next municipal elections in 2014. (The guy spends more time in…
Rob Ford and the End of the Moron Nation
Well it was never going to be a pretty sight eh? You can't put lipstick on a Con.But there was Rob Ford as ugly as ever. Blaming everybody but himself,…
Go back to sleep everyone: another Tory win in Calgary
Joan Crockatt, the first pest past the post, flanked by Calgary MPs Rob Anders and Jason Kenney, gives her victory speech in Calgary last night. Actual victorious Alberta Conservatives may…