Editorial: Sun News Network suddenly seems just so…Canadian
Editorial says that Sun News Network wanted mandatory carriage, then said it would never resort to such a low tactic after it was told it couldn’t have it, and is…
February 2013
The MacKinnon/Dial Exchange
Nation, every so often as you're surfing through the ether of social networking, you stumble across proof that it is possible to disagree about an issue without coming to blows,…
2013: The year of the democracy coalition
When historians write the chapter on the current period of social democracy in Canada they might well conclude that the worst thing that happened to it was the 2011 election…
The Growing Divide between the Representative & the Represented
This is so very, very good. Glen Pearson gets right to the heart of the problem of the growing disconnect of citizens from their governments and politics generally. The entire…
The Growing Divide between the Representative & the Represented
This is so very, very good. Glen Pearson gets right to the heart of the problem of the growing disconnect of citizens from their governments and politics generally. The entire…
The Growing Divide between the Representative & the Represented
This is so very, very good. Glen Pearson gets right to the heart of the problem of the growing disconnect of citizens from their governments and politics generally. The entire…
The Growing Divide between the Representative & the Represented
This is so very, very good. Glen Pearson gets right to the heart of the problem of the growing disconnect of citizens from their governments and politics generally. The entire…
Reince Priebus, chairman of the RNC has obtained Clint Eastwood chair
Remember when Clint Eastwood spoke to a chair (addressing Obama)? Reince Priebus (RNC chair) has it now. The chair is very happy and is singing the GOP song. Read the…
Is TransCanada Laying Defective Keystone XL Pipe in Texas?
TransCanada, the company currently constructing the southern segment of the Keystone XL pipeline, claims to use “top quality steel and welding techniques” throughout its pipeline network. Last week, however, activists…
The MacKinnon/Dial Exchange
Nation, every so often as you’re surfing through the ether of social networking, you stumble across proof that it is possible to disagree about an issue without coming to blows,…
Canadian Newspaper Day Gets One Thing Right
From here. Like the picture too. A kind of dazed, deer in the headlights, what will I do when this gig goes down the crapper? look in her eyes.
ConCalls: RoboCall Boundary Edition #RoboCon 650 days and counting
Last week I got a robocall from “Chase Research” and listened to it all, taking notes when I realized it was a Conservative push-poll and would cause a scandal. I…
Leger Alberta Poll: 40% PC, 28% WRP, 13% NDP, 12% ALP
Leger Marketing’s first poll in Alberta since last year’s election is out, showing something of a drop for the governing Progressive Conservatives (not surprising given current news, though this poll…
National cell phone rules fall short.
What do you think of the CRTC draft cell phone rules? Check it out as Michael Geist takes a look and finds they fall short. The rules give us a…
Improvident sale
Centurion Farms Ltd. v. Citifinancial Canada Inc., 2013 ONCA 79 has a helpful statement of the test for improvident sale by a mortgagee of a mortgages property: … the proper…
So where was the debate?
MPs debate Canada’s role in Mali Members of Parliament took part in a four-hour ‘take-note’ debate on the conflict in Mali and Canada’s contribution to the mission Tuesday night. ……
News of failed private endoscopy clinic coincides with hospital’s intent to divest more endoscopies
It shouldn’t have been a surprise to anyone in Ottawa. When the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario finally released the list of private clinics that failed their inspection,…
Party elites, not grassroots members, chose Wynne for Ontario Liberal Leader…
The recent Ontario Liberal leadership convention in Toronto was enjoyable to attend. It gave me the opportunity to re-connect with dozens of Liberals I’ve known over the years. It also…