A Journalist Writes About A Pattern
The other day I wrote a post about detecting patterns in political behaviour, opining that most media spend a disproportionate amount of their considerable resources covering trivia like celebrity gossip…
2012
A gruesome way to protest
This should seem rather obvious, but I’ll state it anyhow – these type of macabre acts aren’t the way to be protesting the current government’s policies – if indeed that…
Canada’s Selective Immigration Strategy: an Evolution (Part 6/6)
1991 – REFORM PARTY RHETORICThe Reform’s early policy proposals for immigration were seen as highly controversial in Canada including a policy pamphlet called Blue Sheet that was issued in mid-1991…
The Hard Road Ahead #nlpoli
If the provincial government can actually get control on its spending and head down the road to management reform along the lines that Eastern Health’s Vicki Kaminski talked about on…
Oh the Humanities!: Of Language Czars, the Civil Service and Policy-Making
A story about my research being presented today at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences in Waterloo appears in today's National Post. I wanted to get this post…
Oh the Humanities!: Of Language Czars, the Civil Service and Policy-Making
A story about my research being presented today at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences in Waterloo appears in today’s National Post. I wanted to get this post…
Oh the Humanities!: Of Language Czars, the Civil Service and Policy-Making
A story about my research being presented today at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences in Waterloo appears in today's National Post. I wanted to get this post…
Oh the Humanities!: Of Language Czars, the Civil Service and Policy-Making
A story about my research being presented today at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences in Waterloo appears in today’s National Post. I wanted to get this post…
Not all failed candidates got ‘plum’ appointments
Which is why at least one is heading to work a bit before 5:00 am today … . http://www.nationalpost.com/m/news/blog.html?b=news.nationalpost.com/2012/05/29/failed-ndp-candidates-rewarded-with-political-jobs-too-peter-van-loan&pubdate=2012-05-30 "A Postmedia News analysis found that about a quarter of Conservative…
Further Updates to Open Government Project: Yes, Harper Parliament is More Secretive than Predecessors
A couple weeks after CP spread a nasty and false rumour that Chretien and Martin ran Parliament far more secretively than Stephen Harper does, electronic versions of its hit piece…
The Police Execution of Paul Boyd
I think this is the most disturbing video I've ever seen. Paul Boyd, a mentally ill man in Vancouver crawls towards police after being shot seven times. And is finished…
The Quebec Students and the Occupy Movement
On my way home today I visited the park where Occupy Toronto once lived. And I could hardly recognize the place. The old gazebo where so many passionate speeches were…
Northern Insight 2012-05-30 02:24:00
Could my son, or could I, or you, be shot dead by Vancouver Police Constable Lee Chipperfield, or any one of many VPD perverters of justice, if any one believes,…
Casseroles Night in Canada: Working its way into our consciousness with no media help
A scene from the casseroles video by Montreal videographer Jeremie Battaglia that has gone viral worldwide, telling the story of Quebec’s dignified and powerful protest as the Western Canadian media…
Thanks people, thanks
Tens of thousands of thanks actually. We’re about to finish one more month setting readership records. Already 348% of May 2011. And, the month is not over. I hope you…
The Inconvenient Truth about Thomas Mulcair’s "Four-Car" Garage Swiftboating
So my dad and “Tom” (Thomas Mulcair) met up at Briarwood Park in Beaconsfield the other day. Yeah, really. Two grandfathers laughing it up with a couple of toddlers. They…
The Inconvenient Truth about Thomas Mulcair’s "Four-Car" Garage Swiftboating
So my dad and "Tom" (Thomas Mulcair) met up at Briarwood Park in Beaconsfield the other day. Yeah, really. Two grandfathers laughing it up with a couple of toddlers. They…