If you cannot win it, spin it.
Can you believe that the Toronto Star paid Robin Sears for an opinion piece on political spin? In it the former NDP stalwart explains that by-elections are a political spin…
November 2013
Getting Out Of Dodge
The Marshall (aka my wife) has spoken. We’re getting out of Dodge for a week and heading to warmer climes. I’ve sent the comment button on automatic. See you soon.…
Fury’s Hour reviewed!
Here! Also: it’s available as a Kindle download, and makes for an excellent Christmas/Chanukah gift, folks! The author, possibly looking the part.
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – John Ibbitson reports that the Cons’ obvious priorities have finally been made explicit: as far as they’re concerned, the sole purpose of international…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Wednesday, November 27, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Wednesday, November 27, 2013: Peel police face $125 million class-action lawsuit over alleged racial profiling Shopping mall Santa…
If We Have Far More Fossil Fuel Reserves Than We Can Use, Why the Stampede to Explore for Ever More?
Why are governments squandering hundreds of millions of dollars in grants and subsidies so that energy producers can explore for ever more fossil fuel reserves? Seriously, we have no end…
The Weird World of Plotto
I came across Plotto a few years back – references to it in other works, rather than the actual book. it sounded strange, complex and wildly over-reaching. I couldn’t find…
Forum fabrication, falsehood, fiction?
Asked how his firm got the Brandon-Souris by-election wrong by THIRTY PERCENTAGE POINTS, here’s the whopper offered up by Forum’s president: “I know people are going to say ‘Oh, your…
New Democrats, Take the Hint, We Need You to Go Home.
Hard as it’s been to watch the Liberals morph into Conservative-Lite, it was vastly harder to witness the NDP slip its moorings on the left and migrate to the centre…
Boba Fett writes in his journal
“Last night I had that terrible dream where I got slowly digested over a 1000 years again. I wonder what it means? But in real world — totally looking forward…
A Refreshing Perspective
For the first time in decades, I feel a modicum of optimism about organized religion. The new Pope, Francis, is breaking the centuries-long stultification of the Church through the kinds…
Happy Hannukah
May this season of miracles be a harbinger of peace and enlightenment
Taunting the Dragon
The United States has wasted little time letting China know what it thinks of China’s attempt to establish air superiority over the East China Sea and, in particular, the disputed…
Who Will Lead the Tories into the 2015 Election?
If there was just one thing that Tories learned from Monday’s by-elections it was that they’re up against a resurgent Liberal challenge with Justin Trudeau at the helm. They probably…
The 2013 Harbour Grace Affray #nlpoli
Kathy Dunderdale told reporters on Tuesday, while the polls were still open mind you, that the by-election results would be no big thing. Life would go on. The world would…
JRAN On Canada’s Refugee Policy
In the resurrected Canadian Jewish News: On Dec. 1, the Jewish National Fund will be holding an event to raise funds for the Stephen J. Harper Hula Valley Bird Sanctuary…
Seminar on MOOCs, Lyon, France, Day 2
Again these talks are all in French so my note-taking may be inaccurate in places. Denis GilletEcole Polytechnique Federale de LausanneEnvironnements personnels d’apprentissage ou d’enseigments xMOOCs – the good –…