Two Faces of Education Minister Don MacRae
For those who don’t know who Don McRae is, he is the current in a long line of BC Education Ministers. The BC Liberal government has a habit of chewing…
April 2013
My mom (guest post by Irene Jansen)
My mother, Wilhelmina Jansen, passed away April 4. I wanted to write this personal note about what my mother gave me.
InsightsWest BC Poll: 45% NDP, 28% BC Lib, 15% Green, 10% BC Con
A pollster by the name of InsightsWest, which is apparently a “progressive, Western-based” company that I’ve never heard of before, has come out with its seemingly first poll for provincial…
Thatcher’s Capitalist Revolt and the Impending Disaster. . .
I know one is not supposed to speak ill of the dead but Margaret Thatcher was an awful, terrible, scoundrel of a person. But as bad as she was, she…
Not Even One Cent Of Taxpayers Money Should Be Spent On Margaret Thatcher’s Funeral – Privatising her funeral would be a fitting tribute to her free-enterprise legacy
“The Iron Lady herself would surely agree that poor taxpayers should not be further burdened in these times of British austerity. Surely, the private sector, which benefited immensely from her…
To clarify…
… Something about my post yesterday about ex PM Thatcher’s death… I admired her as a leader of conviction, as a woman who was a trailblazer for female politicians everywhere,…
April 9: Part 2
I can’t believe I did anything so stupid as to erase a whole blog just as I was finishing it. And this is the third time it’s happened. April 9:…
#mtlqc13 Priority Resolution – Environment
On the environmental side, I’ll limit my focus to one priority resolution. That’s in part because the NDP’s existing policy book looks to largely cover the most important aspects of…
#mtlqc13 Priority Resolutions – Economy
Following up on my earlier post, let’s start taking a look at a few of the resolutions which I hope to see discussed and passed at this weekend’s federal NDP…
The Internet is smart – The wisdom of the crowd and the threat to Internet freedom by secretive trade agreements.
We asked the Internet community via Reddit, Facebook (and anywhere else that would have us) to discuss the best ways to stop threats to Internet freedom posed by multiple international…
Cat with thumbs
Cat twiddling its thumbs on opposite directions Filed under: art Tagged: Cat, thumbs, twiddle
April 9: part 1
part two will follow. I just messed up by erasing part 2 on the last sentence.
This is Democracy?
As per Bill C-38 – last springs omnibus budget bill…. Members of the public who want to send a letter with comments to the NEB about a pipeline project must…
140Law – Legal Headlines for Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Tuesday, April 9, 2013: Medical Marijuana Gets Its Day in Court America’s texting-and-driving problem isn’t getting better, study…
Big Brother and Studying: What’s Wrong with Education I
CourseSmart is a new tool for university professors which allows them to track a students reading in e-texts. Apparently it’s a coming thing, but it seems to me to be…
When we newspaper columnists tell politicians to be bold and brave
…it’s usually because our names aren’t on a ballot. Don’t do it. Don’t, don’t, don’t.
You say decibel, I say decimal
How could have Justin made such a mistake? How, how, how? Thank goodness the Prime Minister’s locution is beyond reproach!
Psychographics, geo-demographic segmentation and Howard Dean
All the fun stuff that helped Harper win. Right here, in yesterday’s Hill Times.
Reflections on Political Leadership
Inveterate cynic that I am, I have long believed that most politicians see us, to borrow a phrase that I think originated in The Depression, as ‘easy marks,’ people who…