Here are your daily news links: Wireless War: Industry Canada Website Hits At Big Three’s Claims (Huffington Post) How Canada Can Put Digital Consumers First (Michael Geist) Greater cooperation between…
Everywhere you go these days, there’s Michael Ignatieff. I’ve even seen him walking around Yorkville twice within the past month. For those who miss seeing Ignatieff’s face on every third…
The Common Sense Canadian has made much of the Harper government’s promotion, facilitation and subsidization of big oil and the Clark government’s current LNG export fetish. The underlying messaging to…
I’m not exactly keen to join in on the collective online WTFery re: heterosexual manly-man Canadian author and sessional University of Toronto lecturer David Gilmour’s steadfast refusal to allow girl…
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes-Political Blogger Dorothy Field is an artist, writer, poet and world traveler. She has once again attended the Action Camp of the Wet’suwet’en First Nation. Dorothy brings us…
Break out the Champaign and gas-guzzling SUVs ’cause global warming is officially over! Now we can now burn up all the dirty tarsands oil we want and frack to our…
Artist’s rendering of proposed bridge (BC Govt) Read this Sept. 25th story from the Georgia Straight on former Vancouver city councillor and SFU transportation expert Gordon Price’s questions for Premier…
For a long time I have thought and written that Rod Allen is a hugely self-satisfed writer of meager talent as displayed in some of the most trivial columns I…
Here, on Brad Wall’s choice to bring the Southern Strategy north with a dog-whistle appeal to prejudice against First Nations. For further reading…– Rick Perlstein puts the Southern Strategy (and…
He is one of those tea-baggers. He spoke for 23 hours in the U.S senate to block Obamacare. Amongst developed world U.S has about the worst healthcare system. The Obamacare…
R v Courtorielle, 2013 ABCA 317 is a useful reminder that Gladue factors are not merely items for a sentencing judge to mouth before giving the sentence that would be…
Reblogged from Pluto Press – Independent Progressive Publishing: Jack Rasmus, author of Obama’s Economy: Recovery for the Few, has published a new article entitled From ‘Taper Tantrum’ & ‘Token Taper’…
I’m down with this. Spotted by my old North Van Tory buddy Dennis Prouse.
Great discussion at Hub Ottawa! Click here to link to my ipolitics article describing microtargeting. Click here to access some of the political/brain research mentioned. Here’s a link to Emory…
The results are in from Regina’s wastewater treatment referendum. And unfortunately, the combined forces of the City and the corporate sector (with an assist from far too much of the…
Although Harper was in New York during opening of the United Nations but he will not be speaking to UN General Assembly. His highness has no time for the UN.…
I know it’s kind of mean, but I actually thought he was dead. May as well have been, now.
Who won what? How do you compare $660 million from the federal government to $1.4 billion from the province and say Toronto Mayor Ford won? What did he win? And…
Michael Ignatieff still does not understand the part he played in his party’s worst defeat in history. Bob Hepburn writes that Ignatieff’s new book should be titled It Really Wasn’t…
