Calgary Centre By-Election Poll-by-Poll
So finally, Elections Canada has released their official poll-by-poll counts for the three by-elections we had last year in Calgary Centre, Durham, and Victoria. Two of these three by-elections were…
March 2013
Off with their heads!
The NDP are proposing to abolish the Senate. Good for them, and wouldn’t it be good for us.What a useless, pointless, parasitical, insipid and boring organization.Not only that, but we…
Dutch Disease is Dead … Long Live Dutch Disease!!!
In the hyper-polarized context of Canadian energy policy debates, even suggesting that there might be a downside to the untrammeled energy boom centred in northern Alberta is enough to get…
Tom Flanagan Blames #IdleNoMore, The Left For His Spectacular Downfall
By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive | March 4, 2013: Tom Flanagan, Prime Minister Stephen Harper‘s former strategist, now claims he “walked into a trap” when he made the…
U.S. Cardinals Want the Vatican to Come Clean
American Cardinals are demanding that Vatican managers answer allegations of corruption and cronyism at the very top levels of the Roman Catholic church. They say they want those answers before…
Arms Race Update – Giving New Meaning to "Sub-Prime"
Forget mortgage backed derivatives. That’s so 2008. In 2013, “sub-prime” can refer to the burgeoning international market for submarines, underwater warships. We don’t notice it much in Canada but, world…
Let’s Just Call Them Petro-Refugees
“There are a lot of sick people but they don’t have the money to move.” The Tyee’s Andrew Nikiforuk reports on what may become a growing problem, Canadians forced out…
Gaming Medicaid
Republicans, it seems, are willing to support Medicaid expansion, Obamacare as they call it, providing their side gets a hefty cut. Paul Krugman explains how the Right intends to graft…
Benjamin Netanyahu will not watch Oscar- Nominated documentary ‘The Gatekeepers’
Former heads of Shin Bet, an Israeli Security Agency, are critical of Israeli tactics towards the Palestinians and other Arab neighbours in this documentary. One such former head of the…
Biden Joins Bridge Crossing Marchers in Selma
The rightwing stooges who control the U.S. Supreme Court might be willing to imagine away the reality of racial voter suppression in 2013 America but vice president Joe Biden took…
It’s Not Extreme Once It Becomes Normal
Britain’s Environment Agency has warned that the country must prepare for increasingly extreme weather conditions. Last year, flooding was recorded on 20% of days and drought on 25% of days,…
Elin’s in New York, "Babysitting" the Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal
The Studio make a different sort of music, but this is a lot of fun! The concert at Carnegie Hall is tomorrow, and they all left this morning by minibus.…
It’s Called "Poor Shaming"
Canadians have not yet shown themselves ready for the jackboot conservatism the British endure under their Cameron government but that doesn’t mean we’re immune to it either. The Observer’s Barbara…
What Is Not an Endangered Species?
What is not an endangered species? Try Billionaires. It seems they’re doing just fine. Forbes reckons the world now sports 1,426 (USD) billionaires. That’s up by 210 over the last…
Because Machines Never Fail, Right?
The debate over “KillBots”, autonomous hunter-killer robots, continues but never quite so quickly as the technology itself. It won’t be long before the more powerful nations field their own legions…
The Test for Extending Time
Enbridge Gas Distribution Inc. v. Froese, 2013 ONCA 131 deals with the test to extend time generally. In the specific case the Court was considering extending time to file a…
Tom Flanagan, Dropped by the University of Calgary…
…and rightly so. Flanagan thinks viewing child pornography is a liberty issue? What about the victims, the children? There is a great column on this by the Toronto Star’s Heather…
March 4: How not to write a headline….
Headlines are normally written or, at least, approved by editors. The purpose of the headline is to give readers a sense of the main point of the story. This is…