Perverse Politics
Mitt Romney’s supporters are engaging in the same kind of perverse politics which the Romney campaign has practiced. Two days ago, David Brooks suggested that there was an upside to…
2012
To nanowrimo or not to nanowrimo?
It’s that time of year again – nanowrimo, or National Novel Writing Month. Thousands of people are devoting the entire month of November to writing 50,000-word novels. I don’t actually…
Liberal Leadership Races Through History (Part 3): King Chooses His Heir
Previously: Prologue, The 19th Century, An Elected King He may not have been a career politician, but Uncle Louis could still stage one heck of a photo op. The last…
Singapore Opens Vertical Farm
Sky Green has opened the world’s first vertical faem in Singapore and it’s well beyond a proof of concept. The functioning farm produces one ton of food every other day!…
Calculators #nlpoli
Nalcor’s new marketing website for Muskrat Falls includes a little feature that supposedly shows you what your electricity bill will be with and without Muskrat Falls. Even though you will…
A Scar on the land and the people – PEI
I spent over a week in a ravine, in Churchill, standing with a small group of people, holding an invisible line while machines roared through the land. It was something…
140Law – Legal Headlines for Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Wednesday, October 31, 2012, Happy Halloween!: No relief yet for Ontario law grads without articling positions Results of…
I was excited…
…until I saw who did the poll. As I said to the assembled progressives last night at Pages: get back to work, get back to telling your story.
This Halloween, Canadians use social media campaign to speak out about scary cell phone service
HorrorStory-Halloween_PriceGouging.jpg October 31, 2012 – OpenMedia.ca knows that Canadians find their cell phone providers ghoulish; now the grassroots group is trying to determine which type of cell phone horror haunts…
Trick, Not Treat, For Canadians: Harper’s Scary Canada-China Trade Deal
It’s All Hallows’ Eve, the time that creatures of darkness are said to come out and haunt humans. That is certainly true in Ottawa today, as Stephen Harper and his…
Ezra Levant and Sun Media Commit a Hate Crime
The Nazis compared Jews to Rats. Ezra Levant says being a Gypsy is like being a member of the Hells Angels. Unlike the Nazis, however, Levant hasn’t murdered a million…
They Call Them Political Parties…
…because you always have to look like you’re having one. And Justin does. Sure his party sometimes looks like its going to become an all night kegger, but he keeps…
Who Has Sponsored The Shaidle’s Latest Israel Trip?
Last time around, it was emphatically not Canada-Israel Committee (CIC), though one of their reps went along. The whole junket was planned in (semi) secret, as though the sponsor was…
The DG 3 Dog and Pony Show #nlpoli
Big Show. Room full of people all there because they have a direct interest in the project. Live streaming by the news media. And all to release the latest cost…
Clinton on Sandy and global warming
Good for Clinton for speaking about climate change in the post-Sandy moment. What better time to point out the effects that rising ocean levels will have on coastal areas as…
And now something completely different
A few appropriate movies for the day. Happy Halloween folks.
Fair or not, Opposition targets Katz donation(s) as symbol of Tory sleaze
Caesar repudiates Pompeia: “You’re outta here!” Below: Danielle Smith and Alison Redford. The Wildrose Party strategy for defeating the Progressive Conservative government of Premier Alison Redford when the next election…
Canada Should Ban Immigrant Smokers
Canada has socialized healthcare. Canada also has a very restrictive immigration system. Problem Canada allows foreigners, addicted to nicotine, to immigrate to Canada and kill Canadian citizens by allowing them…
Sawyer Adams Your Family Worries, Wants You Home
Sawyer Adams is a fine young man whose grandparents live next door to us here in Fredericton, New Brunswick. Sawyer and his parents are there often. It is a very…