Becoming an MP
During the ill-fated campaign to introduce MMP voting in Ontario, critics often argued that one of the biggest problems with MMP was that it would allow parties to choose candidates,…
2012
My Canada Does Not Include Militarizing Canada Day
I have a great deal of respect for Canadian Forces personnel. I have generally disagreed with virtually every one of their foreign deployments in my lifetime, but that is a…
Ethical Oil’s spin: media catching up to the blogs
Again, Alison at Creekside has come up with the goods. This time she provides commentary and the transcript of a complete undressing of Joe Oliver by CBC’s Carol Off. You…
Canada’s Conservative Stephen Harper Government Emulates, Flatters, and Praises by Imitation Assad, Kim Jong-il, Various Dictators, and Anti-Christian Fellow Travellers
The story: Canada’s Minister of Natural Resources, Joe Oliver, has become the latest politician to blame the United States for problems affecting his own country. At issue is the so-called…
Over 50% of Germany’s Renewable Energy Production Owned by People
Consumer-ready renewable energy can destabilize the traditional energy utility structure in a similar way to how the internet destabilized a lot of other old school industries. This is a good…
A legislative first in Newfoundland and Labrador #nlpoli
If the province’s Liberals live up to the promise made in a news release issued Monday, they’ll make local legislative history. Andrew Parsons, MHA for Burgeo-La Poile, announced today that…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Tuesday, January 10, 2012: UK Law Society gives lawyers social media guidance Parental abductions go unpunished, Canadian dads…
So Much For Senate Reform
“The Upper House remains a dumping ground for the favoured cronies of the prime minister,” a righteous Stephen Harper proclaimed back in 2004. As is always the case with this…
Again, I know I said I’d keep politics…
… off this site until I return, but it is our last day down here, so I’m taking some liberties. This is the Con Natural Resources Minister: Oliver says the…
What do you think of cell phone service in Canada?
Pro-Internet community, We’re hearing a lot about the Big Three cell phone giants’ terrible treatment of customers, and about their plans to take more control of the market. We’re getting…
2012 Quote of the Year. "(Radicals) are a group of people who don’t take into account the facts but are driven by an ideological imperative"
It’s only 10 days into January of 2012 and already we have a sure winner for lack-of-self-awareness wingnut quote of the year. Thank you, Joe Oliver and congratulations. Your clueless…
Cleaning up the mess…
It’s not enough that this edition of Collingwood Town Council had to resolve the downtown patio issue, the Admiral Collingwood Place debacle, and the general financial mess left by the…
Data
Responding to Cooperative Catalyst, Metrics and “Success” I think data is important (it’s the only evidence we have!) but I think that people take a very narrow view of data,…
Radical environmentalists, shame on you! Didn’t you know the Northern Gateway will ‘fund social programs’?
Talk about shame. Pro-polluters and climate change deniers have none. Take one Joe Oliver, for example. This creep has the temerity to tell us that the Northern Gateway pipeline will…
Easy Come Easy GO!
Apparently Santorum’s Iowa momentum is dead and is no longer helping him in New Hampshire. Jon Huntsman keeping his 3rd place position, and Paul Solid at around 20%. While Mitt…
As The Debate Over The Northern Gateway Pipeline Heats Up
…it will be important to keep a level head. The GreenPolicyProf blog is a good place for a level headed assessment of the situation on the ground in B.C.. Incidentally,…
It takes a radical to know a radical
Joe Oliver, Minister of Natural Resources, is apparently mad that his government’s plan to dump an oil pipeline through some of British Columbia’s pristine wilderness and have oil tankers come…
NDP Defector?
Ottawa – Liberal Caucus (PLC), relegated to the third party in the Commons by the orange wave that swept the last elections, may well have robbed a member of its…
The Liberals and the primary option: Open nominations, open society
I first heard the idea of using a primary type system to choose the next Liberal leader in April, 2011. By then it was pretty clear we were not going…