The next Ontario Premier
With a $50,000 entry fee, and a $500,000 spending limit – and, most of all, an end-of-January leadership convention – the Ontario Liberal executive is seeking to discourage minor candidates.…
2012
5256…PM Calls For A Trio Of Bye Elections
Or is it byelections? Ah, you say tomato I say refrigerator. Cut and paste from Global. Prime Minister Stephen Harper has announced that three federal byelections will be held on…
Will Romney win the "jobs" argument and therefore Pennsylvania?
This Republican analysis thinks so: Our latest Pennsylvania poll conducted 10/11-10/13 and released by the Washington Examiner October 18thshows Mitt Romney has taken the lead over President Obama by a…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Jim Coyle wonders whether or democracy is in decline, and cites as evidence the utter disconnect between the primary functions of elected…
Obama & Romney: Who is the "change"candidate this time?
President Obama surged to victory in 2008 riding the twin horses of “hope” and “change”, in the process beating off Hillary Clinton and then The Maverick and his moose-hunting Veep…
Throwing things off balconies
There’s this three-storey apartment building at the corner of Caldwell and Merivale, on the edge of the Experimental Farm, right by the path where I go for walks. There are…
An Australian Take on the American Voter
The 2012 presidential election is so close that the outcome will come down to the undecided voter. Yet it seems this is the group most easily buffaloed with nonsensical claims…
Sunday Morning ‘Rider Blogging
There were certainly some bright spots in the Saskatchewan Roughriders’ loss to Montreal yesterday, as is normally the case when a team has chance to win late against one of…
Oct. 21: Whence and Wherefore the Liberals?
In The Moncton Times and Transcript, Bill Belliveau’s weekly column is the closest thing we have to an official statement of the opinion of the Liberal Party of New Brunswick.…
The Sinking Liberal Fortunes. . . .
I think it is one of the great political ironies in Canadian history that Stephen Harper seems to actually believe that the downfall of the Liberal Party of Canada is…
Calgary-Centre By-Election called for November 26, 2012.
TweetA by-election will be held in the federal riding of Calgary-Centre on November 26, 2012. The by-election is being held to replace former Conservative Member of Parliament Lee Richardson, who…
BC’s Natural Gas Strategy nothing more than a fairy tale
I have an oped in Saturday’s Vancouver Sun. The editor wanted me to focus on the claims of economic gains for BC, so the piece ended up being a complementary…
5255…Premier Naqvi No No No
The Ottawa Centre MPP announced on Facebook that he is going to sit this one out and return to his position as El Presidente of the provincial Liberals. Next time.…
5254…Sometimes The Good Die Old
George McGovern, the greatest POTUS who never was, has died at the age of 90. WFDS
Who cares?
And why is this news? It is a prime example of the non-secular bias in our mainstream media. Hell, the news about Streisand wowing he crowd at Scotiabank Place last…
Fracking in PA Poisoning Communities as Floodgates Open for Drilling on Campuses, Public Parks
Pennsylvania recently passed Act 147 – also known as the Indigenous Mineral Resources Development Act – opening up the floodgates for hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) on the campuses of its public…
A First Nations Saint
Years of prayers have been devoted to Kateri Tekakwitha, a woman that never let her faith waver despite persecution from her fellow natives. Nearly 300 years since her death, Tekakwitha…