5911…The Difference Between The Tories And The Libs
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April 2013
April 25: "Renovated Dieppe liquor store reopens"
Wow! Stop the presses. The liquor store is a front page story. Lesser stories begin on p.2. “Medical society to sue province”. Well, it’s only our health system that’s involved.…
Give Me a Boilin’ Hot Cup of Joe
Ol’ Joe is in the hotseat in the House of Commons today. The New Democrats plan to grill NatResMin Oliver over his remarks smearing leading climate scientist James Hansen. Oliver…
The Terrorist Bill and the October Nightmare
Sometimes I can't help feeling that a lot of Canadians have forgotten the fundamental lesson of the War Measures Act.And that is, it wasn't Pierre Trudeau's finest hour, it was…
How Cohen Recommendations, Termination Clause and BCNDP Can End Risk to Wild Salmon Economy
Let’s turn to the notion that BC has no jurisdiction over salmon farms as a result of a recent lawsuit which saw the Federal Government assume much of the oversight…
How Cohen Recommendations, Termination Clause and BCNDP Can End Risk to Wild Salmon Economy
Let’s turn to the notion that BC has no jurisdiction over salmon farms as a result of a recent lawsuit which saw the Federal Government assume much of the oversight…
More on the Combatting Terrorism Act
The Globe and Mail has a report on the passage of Bill S7 that includes some interesting comments from someone who actually supports having a law like this on the…
On regressive choices
Yesterday, I offered a quick, off-the-cuff response to the Sask Party’s decision to restrict municipalities in applying property taxes to commercial and industrial land. But let’s look in a bit…
“We have our idiots like any community”
And that wonderful quote corresponds exactly with my long-running view about religions (or any human institution, frankly): there are idiots in every organization. The Muslims have them, but so do…
Something To Make You Smile
Apropos of nothing except that I am a huge jazz fan and today would have been Ella Fitzgerald’s 96th birthday, an event being commemorated with a Google Doodle, I invite…
Drowning in Information, Thirsting for Knowledge (About Movements)
It’s no great novelty to observe that anyone today with the resources and inclination to own the right kind of cellphone can instantly access more information than was available to,…
Canadians Abroad
Apr. 25, 2013 — The rediscovery of a mystery animal in a museum’s underground storeroom proves that a non-native ‘big cat’ prowled the British countryside at the turn of the…
20 Monsters
20 Monsters is a collection of fanciful cartoon monsters and accompanying doggerel. The free ebook 20 Monsters is available on the iTunes bookstore. You can review the Monsters as blog…
20 Monsters
20 Monsters is a collection of fanciful cartoon monsters and accompanying doggerel. The free ebook 20 Monsters is available on the iTunes bookstore. You can review the Monsters as blog…
20 Monsters
20 Monsters is a collection of fanciful cartoon monsters and accompanying doggerel. The free ebook 20 Monsters is available on the iTunes bookstore. You can review the Monsters as blog…
Paris Marathon Runners Generated Energy to Power Event
At the recent Paris marathon the runners literally generated electricity. Pavegen put down a series of tiles that create an electric charge when compressed, so all they had to do…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Andrew Simms and Stephen Reid note that the corporatist dogma that everything is done more efficiently in the private sector has no…
Bad planning: Edmonton Arena funding and Calgary urban sprawl.
TweetWhile too much media attention was focused this week on the fate of a statue of a hockey player who left Edmonton twenty-five years ago for sunny southern California (and…
New column day
Here, on how the one point of agreement about the environmental impact of the tar sands is that we still don’t have enough information to so much as evaluate the…
Canada Post and the War on Open Data, Innovation & Common Sense (continued, sadly)
Almost exactly a year ago I wrote a blog post on Canada Post’s War on the 21st Century, Innovation & Productivity. In it I highlighted how Canada Post launched a…