I’m Drilled On Mars
I’m excited to learn that my name is selected as a site on Mars. I am unable to easily find which John Klein it’s really named after, but I’ll take…
January 2013
Thousands of Miners’ Benefits In Jeopardy As Patriot Coal Claims Bankruptcy
On January 29, Patriot Coal Co. will begin Chapter 11 bankruptcy hearings in St. Louis, MO claiming that it’s become a “victim of the markets” and can no longer pay…
Turn Those Clapping Hands Into Angry Balled Fists
Sleep on pillows made in Singapore Wrapped in comforters Sweating through sheets Drinking coffee in the morning Floating on Airplanes across the vast seas And your house is made of…
Zig Zag on Idle No More: "In any liberation movement there are internal and external struggles"
We are living in exciting times, with large numbers of people clearly fed up and taking action, no longer content to wait for the right moment or the right ideas…
They Can’t Stop Spinning
Even when it doesn’t matter. Recently an Ottawa botany professor has suggested that the Bank of Canada erred by using a Norwegian species of maple tree as the basis for…
Cast of Stones: Book Review & Author Interview
A Cast of Stones by Patrick W. Carr is a strangely dark story. I saw it advertised as a “Epic Medieval Saga Fantasy” and that it was published by Bethany…
Randy Hillier, Then And Now
Tory MPP Randy Hillier has been taking some flack over on his Facebook page for condemning Idle No More protests after having having engaged in some highway blocking himself back…
Alberta Tories Bought One Vote, Mine
It’s enough to make your blood boil. Alberta Conservatives are bent on meddling in British Columbia‘s upcoming provincial election. They’re running a campaign to raise Alberta donations to support Christy…
Matt Hopkins of London (updated)
Looking for his contact information, for the reasons you might suspect. He goes to Western and styles himself as political. Anyone have? UPDATE: Never mind. We’ve got it, and in…
Today is Internet Freedom Day!
Today is the one-year anniversary of the pro-Internet community’s successful Internet blackout protesting the restrictive SOPA and PIPA. Support Internet freedom and celebrate today as Internet Freedom Day. Check out…
M.S. in PR Spring Semester at Newhouse
Hey everyone. I’m just finishing up my first week of the spring semester of classes at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. I’ve had every class at least once…
Who’s Running BC?
It has been a month of amateurish politics starting with the government posting the auditor-general’s job. Then this week the government backed down several steps to keep from ejecting the…
5529…Headline Of The Day
From gawker.com: Cross-Dressing, Show-Tunes-Loving Connecticut Priest Busted for Selling Meth and Laundering Money Through His Sex Shop WFDS
5528…Steve Maher Owes Me A Beer
Besides that he is a pretty cool guy. The great Dean Del Mastro, who Mr. Maher and his partner Glen McGregor have firmly in their sites, doesn’t think so. The…
Rumours of Plan to Oust Embattled Atleo as AFN Chief Denied…For Now
Read this story from the Globe and Mail on internal discussions within the Assembly of First Nations to push out National Chief Shawn Atleo – rumours which are being denied…
5527…Note To Idle No More
We aren’t settlers. WFDS
5526…Tim Hudak Channels His Inner Mike Harris
It were in the Toronto Star this morning. What the man who would be Premier will do is get Ontario on track the Tory way. On the backs of the…
Thanks For Not Helping
In Calgary, a group that includes at least one oil-industry bigwig and a former Progressive Conservative party insider held a private fundraiser to support the B.C. Liberals’ re-election bid. If…
Cast Your Vote
The always insightful Pundits Guide reviews the federal Liberal Leadership rules and deadlines here, and suggests someone take it upon themselves to set up a sample ballot for the people…
P3s for Dummies Part II: Public infrastructure in the private interest
Last week we loosely defined public-private partnerships (a.k.a. PFI, AFP) and how the concept of risk was used to justify much higher costs to the public. This week we look…