In Sunday’s Sun: wherein I say nice things about the NDP icon
Now, before you get all mad at me for having the gall to say nice things about the Jack Layton movie in these pages of all places, I respectfully suggest…
March 2013
ESP, Fuhrers, and a Naked John Baird. . . .
I can predict the future. I am no psychic, just of a practical turn of mind, politically speaking. I predict that Justin Trudeau will be elected leader of the Liberal…
Move clocks forward one hour tonight
Nunavut While the rest of Nunavut observes DST, Southampton Island including Coral Harbour remain on Eastern Standard Time throughout the year. Ontario Most of Ontario uses DST. Pickle Lake, New…
Developing the political will to end poverty
I had the opportunity to attend a meeting hosted by Poverty Free Ontario. There were about a hundred attendants listening to presentations and discussing how we can work to get…
Preston Pouts Over Tory Perceived Weakness on Environment
Preston Manning, former Reform Party leader who now heads a Conservative Junior Achievement Academy/Komsomol to indoctrinate train and churn out “right thinking” Conservative leaders criticized the Harper Cons today for…
Premier Must Have Known About Ethnic Voter Plot
Christy is lucky Rafe wasn’t interviewing her! Rafe Mair has been through the episodes of a number of Premiers and his advice is unequivocal. Madam Premier the Gig is up!…
Another Former Aryan Guard Member Arrested
In a February 22 post concerning violence in the racist movement, we also included an article and suggested that we would soon be learning more about the assault and it's…
Developing the political will to end poverty
I had the opportunity to attend a meeting hosted by Poverty Free Ontario. There were about a hundred attendants listening to presentations and discussing how we can work to get…
MLA Cam Broten Wins Sask NDP Leadership Race By 44 Votes!
Cam Broten is the winner of Saskatchewan’s New Democratic Party leadership race after beating fellow candidate Ryan Meili by a thin margin of just 44 votes Saturday afternoon. A total…
Why educators should resist educational technology
I sat down earlier this week to write a blog post and I had a catchy title in mind: “iPads in the Classroom: Deja vu all over again”. I had…
With Liberals in rear-view mirror, conservative deep thinkers ponder greener look
Your blogger offers Preston Manning a couple of big ideas for conservatives to think about. Below: Liberal Justin Trudeau, pollster Andre Turcotte. OTTAWA While the Forum Research polling company was…
Convention Update: And The Leader Is…
By a very tight margin, of 44 votes, the new leader of the Saskatchewan NDP is Saskatoon-Massey Place MLA. Cam Broten. Broten edged out first ballot leader, Ryan Meili, as…
On Crappy Contractors – a Solar Powered RANT
I’m trying to get solar panels on my house under the MicroFIT program. It’s been a process so fraught with frustration, I’m thinking of forgetting the whole thing. A colleague…
Preston Manning throws Alison Redford, Tom Flanagan under the conservative bus.
TweetSpeaking about the state of Canada’s conservative movement at this weekend’s Manning Centre Networking Conference in Ottawa, former Reform Party leader Preston Manning denounced the ethical and financial state of…
5411…Happy Birthday Barbie
What I presume is the most popular doll of all time, Mattel’s Barbie, turns 54 today. Raise your glass. WFDS
Micro-Targeting, Liberalist and the Liberal Party’s opportunity.
Bullseye Communications Today, I sat down in the morning to check out the news, and found two articles in the Hill Times about, and by Conservatives, that are extremely revealing…
Convention Update: First Ballot Results
And now for something completely different, we go from talking about the campaign to talking about the convention. As of 1:30pm, the first ballot results are in and are posted…
First visit to the Nordik Spa
GC and I went to the Nordik Spa up in Chelsea. It’s about a 20-minute drive from downtown Ottawa. Neither of us had ever been there before, or to any…