A loud revolution – Friday Film Pick: Casseroles – Montréal, 24 Mai 2012
This week’s FFP is a lovely short film showing what has become the nightly ritual of taking to balconies and the streets of Montreal to bang on pots and pans,…
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The I Lost My Wallet – Doing Government Service Delivery Right
A couple of years ago I was in Portugal to give a talk on Gov 2.0 at a conference the government was organizing. After the talk I went for dinner…
Security for costs should be ordered less frequently with a greater focus on the merits of the proceeding?
Cinar Corp. v. Robinson, 2012 SCC 25 might be seen as a rather particular decision related only to Supreme Court practice but it has a suggestion of something more generally…
Snow Way That’s Cool
My bad. I put away the snow shovel before June. Sorry Regina. I saw snowflakes flying in the street lights as I left the Lawson Thursday night. == As you…
Tail Gunner Steve
The Conservatives have now revealed their game plan for fighting seven attempts to overturn results from last May’s election. There is a conspiracy afoot, they say. In a 750 page…
we movie to canada: annual wmtc movie awards, 2011-12 edition
Our 2011-12 Movie Season was a strange one, as we’re gravitating towards watching more series and fewer films. I also didn’t have a good source for quality movies on DVD…
Lockheed Martin pulls out the big guns
This report today just says so much about the whole F-35 program. Lockheed Martin is now publicly threatening that Canadian firms that have received F-35 industrial contracts to date may…
Another new affiliate
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Canada’s Selective Immigration Strategy: an Evolution (Part 2/6)
1898 – BARRIERS FOR BLACKSThere was — as government correspondence in Ottawa records now makes clear–a long series of letters exchanged among immigration authorities worried about how to be functionally…
A "Gaffe", Eh? Part Hmmm
The nation is split over Thomas Mulcair’s “Dutch Disease” theory, with slightly more disagreeing than agreeing with the NDP leader. Some surprising and not so surprising things in the regional…
Angus Reid Poll: 37% Con, 33% NDP, 18% Liberal
Thus making it the third poll, after Ipsos and Abacus, to show the Conservatives at 37%, possibly indicating momentum for the incumbent government. Angus Reid (Federal – May 22-23, 2012)…
Northern Gateway Preview: What An Oil Spill In Your River Looks Like
It’s happening right now in the Russian Arctic. There’s more shots through the link. Actually, here’s one that reminds me of parts of Ontario. Reverse Line 9, anyone?
The Perfect Storm #nlpoli
“In the fishery of the very near future,” SRBP wrote in February, “fishing subsidies like federal employment insurance wage subsidies, state-sponsored marketing schemes and the stalinist political control of the…
Employment Insurance and the Big Brother State
I’m writing this because I’m once again forced to wonder how small-government “libertarian” conservatives can actually express support for the present government. The new proposal for EI, according to the…
Quebec: The Mad Emperor and the Klown Media
They were out in the streets of Montreal again tonight, for another casserole protest or cazerolazo The 31st night protest comes as a growing number of Montrealers join a neighbourhood-wide…
murky waters ahead for alberta’s liberal party.
Tweet Raj Sherman delivers his leadership victory speech as leadership chair Josipa Petrunic, and candidates Laurie Blakeman, Hugh MacDonald, and Bruce Payne look on (September 2011). The Alberta Liberals will…
EI changes nudge Canada further to the right
For the majority of Canadians, those who identify themselves as centre-left on the political spectrum, the announced changes to EI show further evidence of Canada evolving into a more and…
The Emblematic Nature of Anarchopanda
Unity, Solidarity and Hugs This is speculation based on the post-secondary education in the Humanities I received at a Quebec university in the late 90s and early aughts for a…