Guest Post: On Standards of Fairness
Dan Tan offers this assessment of the CP’s reporting on recent polls about Thomas Mulcair’s economic comments: Harris-Decima recently asked a group of Canadians what they thought about Thomas Mulcair’s…
2012
Back on the air
As you can hear (automatically, if you don’t want to hear, just go to your right and hit the pause button) Radio Woodshed is back on the air after a…
A New World — A New Humanity
With this post I am going to flesh-out an idea that has been nagging at me since I first started reading about world crises and the people and organizations that…
A New World — A New Humanity
With this post I am going to flesh-out an idea that has been nagging at me since I first started reading about world crises and the people and organizations that…
A New World — A New Humanity
With this post I am going to flesh-out an idea that has been nagging at me since I first started reading about world crises and the people and organizations that…
A New World — A New Humanity
With this post I am going to flesh-out an idea that has been nagging at me since I first started reading about world crises and the people and organizations that…
But the boomers were ‘entitled to their entitlements’
Nice piece by John Moore in the National Post on just who is and is not whining about entitlement. Setting aside the fact that this intergenerational hectoring dates back to…
Ottawa citizen reports – Thomas Mulclair has a mortgage on his home
This is news? Postmedia Network, owners of such bastions of liberal journalism as the National Post and Ottawa Citizen, is reporting that NDP leader Thomas Mulclair has a mortgage on…
Open Source Politics
“Us Now” is a documentary film project about the power of mass collaboration, government and the Internet and tells the stories of online networks that are challenging the existing notion…
The Coniving party of Canada.
How far would $57 Billion dollars have taken EI here during this corporate/bank created debacle known as a "recession"? According to the NDP, the Tories eroded a $57-billion surplus in…
This is PR: The Realities of Public Relations 11th Ed. (Newsom et al.) Chapter 1 Summary
So I’m starting to explore my future career in communications. I’m starting by reading This is PR: The Realities of Public Relations, which is apparently the standard introductory textbook for…
Sunday Morning Links
Assorted content for your Sunday reading. – Bruce Johnstone reminds us that much of Stephen Harper’s low-wage, anti-worker agenda has been rather poorly hidden for a long time: Everything from…
Facebook Blocks Blogspot.ca
Facebook has blocked blogspot.ca. This means anyone with a blog on Blogger in Canada can’t post their links to Facebook. I’ve written then about it this morning. Hopefully they will…
Parliament in Review: May 2, 2012
A combination of the one-year anniversary of Canada’s 2011 federal election and a relatively short day in Parliament left little room for a lot of debate on Wednesday, May 2.…
You can be convicted of trying to pick and empty pocket
R v. Oersted 2001 BCSC 230 is a useful case dealing with attempt. Basically you can be convicted of attempted to pick an empty pocket – factual impossibility of the…
Saturday Photo: New Grown Everywhere
Evergreens are just that: trees which don’t lose their leaves in the fall, but keep them (or the needles which are a manifestation of leaves) all year round. This is…
And this is where we juxtapose
Gwyn Morgan in the Globe and Mail a month ago: Germany has given away $130-billion, mostly to solar-power companies. Yet solar power makes up a minuscule 0.3 per cent of…
4682…Strippers Suffering In Montreal
It is that darn student strike thingy. According to what I read in today’s Ottawa Sun business is down up to 45 per cent at peeler palaces in Montreal. Day…