Taking Aim At His Enemies
Stephen Harper shuffled his deck chairs yesterday. And Mike De Souza reports, in The National Post, that incoming ministers received a package which included a list of Harper’s enemies: Prime…
July 2013
A Match Made in Heaven – Loblaws and Shoppers Drug Mart Unite!!
A Match Made in Heaven – Loblaws and Shoppers Drug Mart Unite!! Shoppers kills millions of trees a week on advertising, trying to lure people to stores to buy merchandise—on…
Trading staterooms on HMCS Harper.
Prime Minister Harper’s cabinet shuffle is not just new lifeboat assignments. The changes on Her Majesty’s Canadian Ship Harper are to decide who is to go first class on their…
The Legend of Pokadot Joe
In the years before the Great Waffle, the common people had a champion. Whenever injustice reared its linear head, Pokadot Joe was there to thump it with his curly-cue cudgel…
Dishonesty gives cause for termination in financial industry
Agostino v. Gary Bean Securities Ltd., 2013 ONSC 6918 holds: I recognize that dishonesty does not automatically mean that an employer has cause for dismissal. Writing on behalf of a…
On Smoking
I took the kids to the beach on Sunday, and there’s new signage everywhere about the problems with using the sand as an ashtray. In hopes for a “butt-free beach,”…
Roz Savage: Stop Drifting, Start Rowing
Roz Savage has an amazing story to tell, about how she left the life that was expected of her, to become an ocean adventurer. Is she crazy? You decide: *…
Learn Now. Pay Later. #nlpoli
A college or university education has an undeniable value both to the student and to the society as a whole. But should either party bear a disproportionate share of the…
Sound Advice for Autism Speaks
In yesterday’s commentary Autism Speaks Joins Drake And J.Cole In Insulting 40% With Autism AND Intellectual Disability I criticized Autism Speaks for stigmatizing persons with Intellectual Disability, particularly the 40%…
Yukon PEDAM
I had a great time delivering the Principles of EDA Management course in Whitehorse!
Yukon PEDAM
I had a great time delivering the Principles of EDA Management course in Whitehorse!
Enemies lists and members bills
The Harper Cons are warning new and shuffled Cabinet ministers about who their friends and enemies are: On the “Transition Binder Check List” are 10 items, such as: “What to…
My postgrad journey
After almost seven months I’m coming to the end of the classroom portion of my corporate communications and public relations program. I’ve learned many things over the course of seven…
Separated At Birth?
Both Richard Nixon and Stephen Harper certainly seem to have been raised with the same bedtime story, and to have taken it at face value. Recommend this Post
In Tuesday’s Sun: the pipsqueak and the cabinet
Sometimes, in political life, you get credit for what you do. More commonplace are those occasions where you get none. Consider, then, Stephen Harper’s newly minted cabinet. Unveiled Monday, the…
My sweetie has a blog
One of the labour movement’s great minds and most driven, brilliant researchers has a blog. Oh and did I mention she’s got great taste in partners? She’ll be mostly following…
All Sound and Fury, Signifying Nothing…
Many people were waiting for the on the horizon cabinet shuffle in Ottawa that finally took place today. Pundits saw it as an opportunity for a scandal plagued government to…
PMO Asks Ministerial Staff To Prepare Briefing Binders For New Ministers With ‘Blacklist’ Of Problem Civil Servants And ‘Enemy Reporters’ …
OTTAWA – In the lead-up to Monday’s cabinet shuffle, ministerial staffers were asked to develop lists of troublesome bureaucrats and “enemy” stakeholders, Global News has learned.The information was to be…
MobileSyrup: Telus to increase prices of its monthly plans
Canada, you gave Big Telecom a chance to listen and provide better service – but they’re still up to their old tricks. Don’t you think it’s time to open up…