How Telus is misrepresenting figures to justify price-gouging
This week a new report from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development confirmed what Canadians have been saying for years: that we pay some of the highest prices in…
July 2013
Krugman Warns of China’s Unstable Economy. Will Ottawa Listen?
Maybe Steve Harper picked a bad moment to bind Canada’s economic future to China’s. The way Paul Krugman sees it, China has a structural time bomb within its economy and…
Legendary White House Correspondent, Helen Thomas, Dead at 92
She covered every administration from Kennedy to Obama and ruffled a few feathers along the way. Helen Thomas, whose bottomless curiosity and unquenchable drive made her a prominent White House…
Off the grid
Been without power and phone for a day – so we’re heading back to TeeDot a day early. Got a lot of meat to get into a freezer! Oh, and…
The End of Growth
It’s not the custom of people my age to go back and re-educate themselves on economics and I know why – ugh! I thought I understood economics from three or…
6260…Boys In Skirts
Great Britain is going thru a heat wave. A heat wave in Great Britain btw means the temp is close to 20. The management at Whitchurch High School in Cardiff,…
July 20: I really don’t want to say this, but….
…it has to be said.I do not think columnist George Sullivan is an evil man. I’m sure he does not think of himself as being prejudiced. My own feeling is…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Jim Stanford discusses the OECD’s findings that job protection actually improves better employment outcomes – while “flexible” labour markets serve only to ensure…
Are You a Mark?………….Issue 1
It is common in the wrestling industry to hear someone being called a "mark". There is lots of debate about what this means exactly, but usually, and for the purposes…
Are You a Mark?………….Issue 1
It is common in the wrestling industry to hear someone being called a “mark”. There is lots of debate about what this means exactly, but usually, and for the purposes…
Are You a Mark?………….Issue 1
It is common in the wrestling industry to hear someone being called a "mark". There is lots of debate about what this means exactly, but usually, and for the purposes…
Are You a Mark?………….Issue 1
It is common in the wrestling industry to hear someone being called a “mark”. There is lots of debate about what this means exactly, but usually, and for the purposes…
Incremental approach to voting reform
The direct approach to electoral reform has failed. So far 4 provincial PR referendums have gone down in flames. Given Einstein’s definition of insanity — repeating the same thing over…
Vote-reform referendum Catch-22
Canadians are divided three ways on voting reform: The status quo (FPP) Proportional representation (PR) None of the above (but open to PV ranked-ballot compromise) This means any two-way referendum…
Heaven knows: the NEB doesn’t.
When a friend called from Calgary earlier this year to tell us she had been evacuated from her beautiful home on the Bow River, she complained about the water covering…
Man, Licia Corbella is a shitty journalist
I haz free speech UPDATE: In light of the controversy ignited by Calgary Herald’s most out-of-touch journo, blaming Vancouver for Kelly Montieth’s death, I thought I’d go back in LFR’s…
The Rise Of The Spectacularly Incompetent
Amid all the talk this week of Stephen Harper’s enemies list, a lot of us missed what is surely another example of how corrupt the Harper government has become —…
Teddy’s Words of Wisdom
I’m not a great student of American history – my tastes run to other places and people: Napoleon, Casanova, Elizabeth I, the Enlightenment, the Renaissance, the French Revolution, China…. but…