Quackery and Big Bucks Infect Health Canada
Health Canada has allowed an increasing number of useless “alternative” healthcare (alternative TO healthcare in most cases) products to be sold in Canada over the last decade, despite the lack…
May 2013
Do You Really Need a Car? Seems That Not All Younger Folk This So.
When I grew up in Southern California, getting a driver’s license was a rite of passage. I actually got mine before I was 16, and Lee didn’t even ask me…
Citizens, Not Consumers
Natalie Brender writes in The Toronto Star that, if disasters such as the factory collapse in Bangladesh are to be avoided in the future, we are going to have to…
If you are reading this, I am dead
You want a lede? This is a lede. Wow. If you are reading this, I am dead. How’s that for a lead? Guarantees you read on, at least for a…
The Tide Has Turned
It has begun. Labrador 2013. General Election 2015. PM Trudeau appoints me to Senate, 2016. He also appoints my wife, and gives us two seats near the aisle for bathroom…
Toronto Rabbis Denounce Pam Geller
Excerpts from Toronto Board of Rabbis statement: The Toronto Board of Rabbis (TBR) expresses its profound disappointment that a local Jewish organization has extended an invitation to Pamela Geller, a…
Labrador speaks – and rejects Conservative tactics
Prime Minister Harper called Peter Penashue the greatest MP representative Labrador has ever had. Cabinet Ministers went into that riding (though notably not Harper) declaring that a re-elected Penashue would…
BC Election Prediction and Hopes.
It seems the easy victory the NDP were hoping for was all but swept away after the leadership debate. Granted the NDP are still 7% on average ahead of their…
BC Election Prediction and Hopes.
It seems the easy victory the NDP were hoping for was all but swept away after the leadership debate. Granted the NDP are still 7% on average ahead of their…
BC Election Prediction and Hopes.
It seems the easy victory the NDP were hoping for was all but swept away after the leadership debate. Granted the NDP are still 7% on average ahead of their…
BC Election Prediction and Hopes.
It seems the easy victory the NDP were hoping for was all but swept away after the leadership debate. Granted the NDP are still 7% on average ahead of their…
Courage Is Contagious
“What are we waiting for?…There is no passion to be found insettling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living…Standing idly by in the…
Guts
I don’t watch her movies, but wow: Angelina Jolie has guts.
The $150K Communications Audit #nlpoli
Poor Jerome Kennedy. They sent him out today to explain to reporters what the government got for its $150,000 audit by Fleishman-Hillard in later 2011. Kennedy had a hard time…
The Leaf Nation and the Flight of the Cons
Well it was quite a scene in the old neighbourhood last night.Thousands of members of the Leaf Nation cheering on their team outside the Air Canada Centre.And the crowd was…
Democracy, Alberta-style: Voters can have any policy they want, as long as it’s Conservative
The Alberta government bargaining team on their way to talks with the Alberta Teachers Association in their Model-T, coloured black. Actual Alberta labour relations specialists may not appear exactly as…
Christy Clark Loses & So Does Gender Equality
*UPDATE 05/15/13: With Christy Clark's amazing upset I am happy to admit the below post is wrong. BC has its first popularly elected female Premier. Congratulations, it is an incredible…
Christy Clark Loses & So Does Gender Equality
*UPDATE 05/15/13: With Christy Clark’s amazing upset I am happy to admit the below post is wrong. BC has its first popularly elected female Premier. Congratulations, it is an incredible…