#skndpldr Candidate Rankings Introduction
As I did in the NDP’s federal leadership campaign in 2012, I’ll start shortly with weekly rankings intended to highlight the relative positioning of the Saskatchewan NDP’s leadership candidates. But…
2013
Busy weekend of Liberal leadership voting; the wacky Glen Murray…
Like hundreds of Liberals, I put my name on the ballot this past weekend to become a delegate to the Ontario Liberal leadership convention later this month. Across the province,…
Urban Density Decreases Car Use
It’s well established that people living in urban areas use cars less frequently than their suburban and rural counterparts. Some argue that it is thanks to better transit services that…
140Law – Legal Headlines for Monday, January 14, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Monday, January 14, 2013: Why are Bob Woodward’s WH sources – or Woodward himself – not on trial…
Canadian TV faces host of challenges by Alex Strachan
CTV President Phil King discusses what works and what doesn’t in Canadian Television.
It’s Crunch Time
The Idle No More movement is about to declare war on Stephen Harper’s vision of Canada, The Petro Power. According to this morning’s Globe and Mail: Allan Adam The chief…
workers doing it for themselves: fighting the austerity agenda in north america
I’m re-running this, which I wrote for Socialist Worker Canada (now at a temporary site while a new website is being completed). If you are part of this struggle –…
Update on Voltage’s “guilty by accusation” crusade
Late last year I wrote a blog post about how media outfit Voltage Pictures was trying to force indie ISP Teksavvy to hand over the private information of certain Canadians…
Pupatello’s big weekend, and the curse of Toronto
Here’s Radwanski in the Globe: “Either Sandra Pupatello exceeded her own expectations, or she did a good job of lowering everyone else’s. The Ontario Liberal leadership candidate who came into…
why you cannot save your way to a comfortable retirement
I was very pleased to see this run in the New York Times. I guess it was safe because the writer didn’t actually use the word socialism. But this Op-Ed…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – Daniel Wilson takes a look at how far too many in the media went along with the Harper Cons’ hatchet job against First…
Oil makes for a slippery slope
Today marks the start of a five day hearing process about the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline. About 330 speakers will have 10 minutes each to address the panel responsible…
Pupatello Takes Slight Lead, but Burlington Goes Wynne
Last night, apparently 44,000 Ontario Liberals voted to choose their riding’s delegates to the leadership convention in two weeks, ostensibly for one of the six candidates still in the race.…
The obligatory Fridgularity review roundup post
Loved Duffbert’s take: “One of the most entertaining and funny books I’ve read this year.” Katy Sozeva has a rave review of the book at her blog, Now is Gone:…
Men Aquitted For Ordering Gay Drink
Two Cameroon men who were sentenced to five years in prison for “looking gay” after ordering Bailey’s Irish Cream have been acquitted of the charges by an appeals court. The…
Monday Morning Musings
A couple of items that have caught my attention: – There has been a rising chorus of folks that have been allied with Chief Teresa Spence publicly saying that they…
Men Aquitted For Ordering Gay Drink
Two Cameroon men who were sentenced to five years in prison for “looking gay” after ordering Bailey’s Irish Cream have been acquitted of the charges by an appeals court. The…
TED Talk Tuesday
Fascinating! Imagine you’re a shipwrecked sailor adrift in the enormous Pacific. You can choose one of three directions and save yourself and your shipmates — but each choice comes with…
Putting selective “facts” on the splitting table #nlpoli
Premier Kathy Dunderdale wants to have a “conversation” about the provincial government’s financial mess and the ways we might fix it. That’s what she told CBC’s David Cochrane in her…