Teenage Lament: long-lost Hot Nasties track
Also located in last night’s rummaging through a closet. From a gig we played at Calgary’s Union Hall, opening for DOA. Here it is. Download, fold, spindle or mutilate, as…
December 2013
Your Daily Digital Digest for Thursday, December 5, 2013
Your news links for today: Public Record – IIC Conference – How Competitive is Canada’s Telecom Sector? (CPAC Video) Ottawa’s wireless ad is too partisan (Globe and Mail) Netflix Expands…
Floating On Hot Air
The Warrior-in-Chief has been cowed. Tom Walkom notes that Stephen Harper’s bellicose rhetoric has cooled: The prime minister’s references to Afghanistan now are usually brief and elliptical, as they were…
Fossil Fuel Investment: On Wrong Side Of History
* Today, UC Berkeley and most institutions are financially invested in destroying our future. This may sound a little bit surprising to some — even unfounded. Let me explain. When…
Chong is challenging the Hair.
An e-mail a few days ago said: You gotta support Michael Chong’s private member’s bill to democratize Parliament. The initial response to the request was to ask why waste time…
Canada’s New National Anthem: “Before the Courts”
Canada’s New National Anthem: “Before the Courts” Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair Takes Questions about Mayor Rob Ford Or new national index of societal morality. It seems there is no…
A Christmas cabinet shuffle in Alberta?
TweetWith the Legislative Assembly’s fall sitting coming to an end, can some Progressive Conservative MLAs expect an early Christmas present from their leader, Premier Alison Redford? Nearly half-way through the…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Thursday, December 5, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Thursday, December 5, 2013: Blogging Is for Lawyers, Too – My post today Did Rob Ford try to…
Québec City Oct 2013
Québec City Oct 2013, a set on Flickr. Some photos from my short trip there in October. Because I am feeling like exploring my current state of flickr integration
SFH and Rob Ford-related news
Above: the teenaged lead singer of the Hot Nasties, circa 1977-78. Photo located last night under a pile of old records. Note the rasta handle. SFH’s fate seems inextricably linked,…
Secular Stagnation
I have written a couple of pieces for Economy Lab in the Globe and Mail recently on the issue of secular stagnation. (Links below) The term was coined by the…
Dear Chief Blair
Dear Chief Blair: Other folks want to canonize you as a saint. I’ve never felt that way, for various reasons. Another reason: your guys had the goods on Rob Ford…
Welcome to Gasland: Denton, Texas Residents Face Fracking Impacts From EagleRidge Energy
In Denton, Texas, 40 miles northwest of Dallas, residents and students at the University of North Texas are getting a free course in what it’s like to live in the…
Saskatchewan’s Auditor General BLASTS Brad Wall For Government Financial Records That Are ‘Wrong"
REGINA — The provincial auditor is waving a red flag over the government’s main operating account, saying that the general revenue fund (GRF) financial statements are “full of errors” and…
New column day
Here, asking whether growth and stable employment are part of the deal when the Saskatchewan Party offers massive handouts to the resource sector – and if so, how to handle…
Rob Ford and the Day of Revelation
Well yesterday he was looking for any camera he could find to try to keep his face in the news. But tonight he was hanging on for dear life and…
Jacob Ernest Goertzen 1941 – 1971
This picture of us was taken just months before he was killed on a snowy B.C. highway. His obituary from the local paper, so many years ago today: J. E.…
Grits gain from Cons and Dippers #nlpoli
Premier Kathy Dunderdale doesn’t govern by polls. That’s what she told reporters – yet again – as they asked her about yet another poll that showed the provincial Conservatives aren’t…