Mitt Romney a Bishop?
“By most accounts, Mitt Romney, as a Mormon bishop, was a good listener, a measured thinker and an innovative manager who considered various positions before making decisions. By most accounts,…
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Spring Signs of A Thaw In Our Political Passivity?
It’s been a long time since I’ve seen in print the term ‘Red Tory’, used to describe an economic conservationism balanced by a social progressiveness. Yet it is included in…
What is a group of frogs known as?
An army of frogs!
ConCalls: The NDP and Liberals were #RoboConned
A spokesman for the Conservative Party attacked Frank Graves, the head of Ekos, for donating to the Liberals in the past. “Frank Graves … is the same pollster who predicted…
Forget The Band, Listen To The Drums
One day, my hope is politics- or more correctly how citizens weigh political considerations- becomes primarily a conversation of practical expressions rather the useless banter that now dominates. Currently, every…
"I Urge Canadians To Stand Up To This Government And Fight For Our Collective Right To Privacy"
It’s very interesting to compare the coverage of yesterday’s Commons ethics committee inquisition of former Liberal staffer Adam Carroll in the Toronto Star today with the coverage the CBC aired…
One step forward…
… Metro Transit is cutting evening ferry service. The last boat leaving Halifax in the evenings will now depart at 10:30 p.m. instead of 11:45 p.m. This is insane. Dartmouthians…
Alberta Votes . . . for Mugabe Again!
Alberta Votes . . . for Mugabe Again! Pollsters, Pundits, and Academics Amazed; Blame Voters for Being Unvoterly Mexico’s Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), the Soviet Union, Equatorial Guinea, Castro—strange bedfellows…
Classics of Travel Literature — The Odyssey & The Hobbit
The Odyssey The Odyssey is a story about a homicidal maniac (Odysseus) who refuses to ask for directions. This tragic flaw, shared by many men, leads his crew to disaster.…
Krista Erickson Looks Like Ann Coulter, And Other Things We Learned About Mark Steyn’s Toronto Appearance Without Actually Going
Last night, Mark Steyn–the U.S. author whose writings served as the inspiration for Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik–performed in Toronto for a small crowd of mostly white geezers: A…
An Oda apology and other notes
CLICK TO ENLARGE The cheeky folks at the Globe who do the celebrity photos have some fun with the Bev Oda Savoy swank affair. Slide 3 is devoted to Bev…
Managing Public Art – An interview with the Bryan Newson of Vancouver’s Public Art Program
Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas ‘Abundance Fenced’ Bryan Newson is the Manager of the City of Vancouver’s Public Art Program. He and his staff have been responsible for bringing you everything from…
Another Tom Marshall masterpiece #nlpoli
You’ve gone through the media reports and heard the interviews and comments from pundits and politicos alike. Now you want a better idea of what is going on and what…
Austerity and recession, invariably linked
UK is back in recession, OECD says, Phillip Inman, The Guardian, March 29, 2012 “The UK is heading back into recession and will be among the slowest of the world’s…
Ethics and competence not germane
Phil Hochstein is worried about the politicians who served his interests so well in recent years. In present form, most of those men and women now seem unelectable. As a…
Hey Chairman Harper, We’re Not North Korea Yet
In North Korea it’s standard for visiting journalists to be accompanied by North Korean ‘minders’ who keep and eye on where they go and who they talk to. These minders…
Shift happens, but not this fast – trying to understand Alberta’s wonky polls
Shift happens: An Alberta pollster runs down the road looking for a crowd of Albertans to survey. Nothing in sight, however. Below: Premier Alison Redford and Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith.…
The missing link to renewable energy
Related posts (randomly generated) Renewable energy is bullshit… literally McCain on renewable energy, the environment and climate change
Canada Post’s War on the 21st Century, Innovation & Productivity
The other week Canada Post announced it was suing Geocoder.ca – an alternative provider of postal code data. It’s a depressing statement on the status of the digital economy in…