Too Late?
Michael Warren writes that Stephen Harper is rapidly approaching the moment where he will have to choose between himself and his party: The events that unfold in front of him…
December 2013
Techno/House Party Guide: How to find the best parties Part 1 of 3
For AW. What to look for in a good party. I was talking to my good friend who wanted to start going to good techno/house parties but didn’t know where
Cost of Extreme Weather Up 300% Since 1980s
“If you think mitigated climate change is expensive, try unmitigated climate change.” Dr. Richard Gammon, University of Washington, speaking to the US Congress, June 28, 1999 * * Economic losses…
Alessandra
Death is such a sudden and jarring thing. It doesn’t matter if the person was living on borrowed time, or if death came swooping in out of the blue, years…
Dan On Polling
Probably the best piece I’ve read on the Forum Polling cock-up in Manitoba: Instead, what we’re dealing with appears to be flawed methodology. Bozinoff has admitted that some respondents may…
Christy Clark arrest may be imminent
Sunday, RCMP announced arrest of Qing Quentin Huang for attempting to communicate knowledge of Canadian ship construction to China. Huang is employed by an Ontario based subcontractor of Irving Shipbuilding.…
Political Mummers’ Parade on Monday #nlpoli
Finance minister Tom Marshall will present his mid-year financial update on Monday. It is supposed to be a way of bringing everyone up to date on how the annual budget…
Gene-Environment Autism Disorder Research CHARGEs Ahead With New Air Pollution Study
The belief that autism is 100% genetics has always seemed to me to be nothing more than that … a belief … a non-evidence based … unscientific belief. But what…
PMO Now Admits Benjamin Perrin’s E-Mails Were NOT Deleted
Golly. It's a miracle I tell you. Remember how the Cons told us that Benjamin Perrin's e-mails had been deleted when he left the PMO? So we couldn't determine what…
Answering the West Lothian Question
Wikipedia has a great page on this. In short, in the UK, they have Devolution. To simplify greatly, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland have “Provincial” parliaments, while England does not.…
The Debt
Watched most of “The Debt” and would watch the rest later if it was convenient to do so. It’s about spies in East Germany attempting to kidnap a Nazi. The…
At Last, Harper PMO Coughs Up Perrin E-mails.
Will miracles never cease? An act of outright resurrection in the prime minister’s office. E-mails once pronounced deleted have been raised from the dead. The e-mails are those of Benjamin…
U.S. feeds Japanese militarism
China, with its paltry aid to the Philippines and its announcement of a new air-defense zone over the East China sea, has not been making friends in its region these…
My Open Letter to MP Claude Gravelle, Requesting Support for MP Michael Chong’s "Reform Act"
I am reproducing here a copy of a recent letter to my Member of Parliament, Claude Gravelle, urging him to support MP Michael Chong’s “Reform Act” when it comes before…
ARC Celebrates Six Years of Online Activism….
…. by picking a little low hanging fruit. That's right. Yesterday marked our sixth year of documenting the activities of some of the more colorful members of the far right…
Time for the Liberals to revive the Supporter membership category.
A little over a year ago, the Liberal Party was in the midst of a bold initiative intended to bring a lot of Canadians into the Liberal Party fold. The…
It was a busy week here at OpenMedia!
New leaks about the ultra-secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement, new revelations about mass spying by spy agency CSEC, and new attempts by our government to resurrect online spying legislation –…
From the Blevkog Archives – April 21, 2006: Cultural Relativism: An Example
Note to readers: I’m not entirely sure why, but this has always stood out for me as one of my favorite pieces of writing that I’ve done on Blevkog. This…
A Nuclear Error: Uranium Royalty Cuts
On Thursday’s Lang & O’Leary Exchange (at 24:45 in this CBC video), I noted that while the Government of Canada just signed a deal with Kazakhstan allowing Cameco to invest…