Alberta Liberal and Federal Liberal Cooperation? Lets Go.
I was talking to one of my friends around the the university the other day and I brought up Raj Sherman’s interview in the Calgary Herald on some form of…
March 2013
Mulcair tells Flaherty to leave the free market alone
Jim Flaherty got all displeased today about Manulife Financial’s plan to reduce its five year mortgage rate to 2.99%. I know. I’m falling asleep just typing it. Manulife got all…
Ten Years Ago: Iraq War Begins
One of the good things about being Canadian was the country’s principled approach to foreign policy. No better example is there than the way Canada stayed out of Iraq. Here’s…
How Embarrassing Can This Get?
I find the idea that Jim Flaherty is pressuring financial institutions not to lower mortgage rates sadly amusing. I have always said that the conservatives don’t really believe in “free-markets.”…
4 Tips on Avoiding Conflict With an Aging Parent (or anyone who needs care!)
Caring.com is a great resource for family caregivers of seniors in the US. I am so pleased to share a very wise blog post from Paula Spencer Scott, their senior…
Caucus told budget to focus on skills training, infrastructure and manufacturing support
Inspired by this headline: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2013/03/19/pol-flaherty-budget-letter.html
CPC Can’t Use Sponsorship As An Excuse Anymore
Today, the Hon. James Moore, MP for Port Moddy-Westwood-Port Coquitlam, responded to a question from Joyce Murray, MP for Vancouver Quadra and Liberal Leadership hopeful. The question was in reference…
Fair Vote Canada’s out to lunch on Ranked Ballot Initiative, treatment of its own members who support it.
I’ve shared some common ground with Fair Vote Canada over the past few years, because I support electoral reform to our electoral system, as they do, and I generally believe…
Liberalist 101: The Fundamentals of effective political databases.
I have blogged repeatedly on what the Liberal Party needs to do to effectively contest elections in Canada. THE most important thing that will need to happen is to implement…
$12.4 billion in tax revenue lost due to recession, not overspending — CCPA
Officially Ontario ended its recession in 2009, but the effects still linger in 2013. The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives estimates the “great recession” of 2008-09 and the slow recovery…
Peter Nowak once more takes on myths of the wireless market.
Big Telecom continues to insist that the market is fine and Canadians are not paying some of the highest cell phone prices. Peter Nowak once again took on these claims…
Parsing The Rhetoric
Oh, how I do love it when the rhetoric of the right-wing is exposed for what it is: hysterical hyperbole. Watch Robert Reich first as he punctures the myths regarding…
Paul Rose’s tortuous path in search of Quebec liberation
Paul Rose, Quebec sovereigntist and socialist, died March 14 in Montréal, following a stroke. He was 69. Notorious for his participation in the 1970 kidnapping and death of a Quebec…
A Culture of Cheating Gets You Places
I was raised with the notion that by being transparent and working hard, you will not only get yourself places, but earn your keep in those places. Looking at the…
Vexatious Litigants
I’m quoted in this week’s Law Times in writer Yamri Tadesse’s article on vexatious litigants – see Judge seeks end to ‘longest running legal drama:’ While family law matters often…
Press Release: Nearly 100 Communities in Ontario Acquire TVO Transmission Towers
TVO wrote to approximately 200 communities in Ontario where the educational broadcaster planned to decommission towers to offer the towers to communities rather than dismantle them.
A Short History of Greenwashing the Tar Sands, Part 1
This is Part One of a three-part series on the political greenwashing of the tar sands in Canada. When I hatched the idea to write a book about the use…
The Germans Think We Are Bad For Their Rep
EXCLUSIVE / Germany’s largest and most prestigious research institute has pulled out of a Canadian government-funded CAN$25 million research project into sustainable solutions to tar sands pollution, citing fears for…