On By-Election Results
There were four by-elections in Canada yesterday. One in Quebec, one in Ontario and two in Manitoba. Nobody expected Vic Toews’ riding, Provencher, to change hands and it didn’t even…
November 2013
Karl Marx’s Revenge: Class Struggle Grows Around the World | TIME.com
Karl Marx’s Revenge: Class Struggle Grows Around the World | TIME.com. Karl Marx was supposed to be dead and buried. With the collapse of the Soviet Union and China’s Great…
If we had ranked ballot, Liberals would’ve earned 3 of 4 by-elections
Last night, constituents of Brandon–Souris in Manitoba voted for change, but got stuck with the same old same old. Fifty-five percent voted for a center-left candidate. But because we have…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Tuesday, November 26, 2013
Your news links for today: The Next Broadband Challenge: Wireless (Journal of Information Policy PDF) Ben Klass asks CRTC to stop Bell’s delinquency on Mobile TV (Life on the Broadband…
Wheat Kings
Trudeau was so confident in the wake of the Forum poll, that he started waving “Vote PC” signs on the campaign trail. On the surface, nothing really happened last night.…
By-elections give Liberals more hope – and a lot more hard work
Hope and Hard Work has become the oft-repeated Liberal mantra under Justin Trudeau. And it can also be used to describe where the Liberals find themselves after Monday’s by-elections: with…
more 22 cats tiny book: the PDF
A tiny delightful book of cat art It’s available at this dropbox link: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23273/more%2022%20cats.pdf Filed under: art Tagged: art, cats, delightful book, ebook, free download, illustration, pdf
Giant Sloth: Its What’s For Dinner
From The Archaeology News: Most scientists agree that humans began arriving in the Americas between 13,000 and 15,000 years ago, and the Clovis people of North and Central America are…
Competition and the Commercial Spirit
I came across this gem while reading Hayek’s discussion of private monopoly and competition in Law, Legislation and Liberty. Hayek is discussing the relationship between competition and economic rationality, disputing…
Mr. Mulcair, you better not pout.
It looks like New Democrat Leader Thomas Mulcair got an early lump of coal from Santa last night. The orange surge in Quebec came up short and Tommy’s star candidate…
Changing Car-Based Infrastructure for Walkable Communities
The suburbs are designed for cars as opposed to people and this is a problem that has surprising side effects from personal health issues to an increase in violent deaths.…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Tuesday, November 26, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Tuesday, November 26, 2013: GTA Lawyers Take Note of New Motion Practice Direction (Toronto) Pot smokers warned: think…
O brother… #nlpoli
There are times when the talk in the province sounds a bit like the soundtrack to a movie, a comedy to be precise. On Monday, finance minister Tom Marshall sounded…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Richard Seymour comments on more and more draconian anti-protest laws which are being applied to attack public activism: To understand why this…
Going South
The damage keeps piling up. Yesterday the Conservatives won Brandon-Souris by a mere 391 votes. In Provencher, Vic Toews’ former riding, Liberal numbers went from 7% to 30%. And, Michael…
By-election Olympics: Trudeau gets gold and silver; Harper and Mulcair get bronze
Not sure what I mean? Take a look at this chart that I found over at Maclean’s: That chart shows, rather dramatically, that Trudeau’s Liberals gained vote everywhere. Everyone else…
Writers’ stimulants
I still think most of these would be whiskey, not coffee. (h/t to Mark Victor Young.) Alltop is a stiff drink of humor.
Serial Fraud Artists #nlpoli
Some old fellow by the name of Williams once said that there was no greater fraud than an unkept promise. He said that around the time he promised to bring…
Stephen Harper’s Scary Byelection Night
Golly. I can only imagine the state Stephen Harper must have been in last night as he watched the byelection results come in. Especially the one in Brandon-Souris, the riding…
BREAKING NEWS: By-Election Results Offer No Compelling Narrative!!!
Status Quo. Close in Brandon. Whumped ’em in T.O. Center and Bourassa LPC increased its vote share, so that’s nice but no big thng. Didn’t I tell you so? I…