Damn the finances! Full spend ahead! #nlpoli
We don’t know precisely what economist Wade “the Can-Opener” Locke is doing to earn his loonie from the Newfoundland and Labrador taxpayers. Finance minister Jerome Kennedy hired him this year…
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Curated Castoffs
We went to a great little event the other night at Patrick Gordon Framing. It was called Curated Castoffs: Art & Decor Edition. It was kind of like a collaborative…
PEF Events at Annual Conference of the CEA
For the 15th consecutive year, the Progressive Economics Forum (PEF) is sponsoring its own events at the Annual Conference of the Canadian Economics Association (CEA). This year’s Annual Conference of…
Canada’s World Autism Awareness Day Act: Great Preamble, Zero Action
On November 1, 2012 Canada passed An Act respecting World Autism Awareness Day an Act with a great preamble which provides for absolutely no action to ensure that effective evidence…
A Green Canada Includes The West!
Canada may be out of the Kyoto protocol, but even our own non scientific target of 17% below 2005 levels by 2020 won`t be reached at this rate. Due to…
A Green Canada Includes The West!
Canada may be out of the Kyoto protocol, but even our own non scientific target of 17% below 2005 levels by 2020 won`t be reached at this rate. Due to…
A Green Canada Includes The West!
Canada may be out of the Kyoto protocol, but even our own non scientific target of 17% below 2005 levels by 2020 won`t be reached at this rate. Due to…
what could baseball, sexual abuse, and pitbulls possibly have in common?
It’s Opening Day! It’s always a long, cold winter for a baseball-only fan, but winters for Red Sox fans have been especially long and cold lately. When was the last…
A Green Canada Includes The West!
Canada may be out of the Kyoto protocol, but even our own non scientific target of 17% below 2005 levels by 2020 won`t be reached at this rate. Due to…
Its Ethical…
…its from Canada, and its come to town with a few days to spill.
Having Trouble Using Google With Chrome?
Getting err socket not connected error in Chrome? Delete browsing history, close and then reopen browser, and that seems to work. That is all.
The Public Debt #nlpoli
One of the greatest political frauds committed by the current administration and its supporters is the idea that they have lowered the public debt. All the politicians say it. Wade…
Let’s Stop Being Fossil Fools, And Just Say No To Bankrolling Climate Change
Via Fossil Free Canada: What do you call an industry that is planning to cook the planet? An industry responsible for destroying land, polluting the air and water, and violating…
The joke’s on us #nlpoli
From the current issue of Canadian Business comes this little ad that is not an April Fool’s joke from energy company currently running the provincial government: People following the sorry…
Pundit, partisan, or?
A garrulous right-winger, Alise Mills has appeared on CKNW, CTV, Sun News Network and CBC. Because she is pervasive, it’s worth learning a little about her. In the preceding article,…
Stephen Harper’s Witch Hunt Backfires Badly
Well it has been a year since Stephen Harper declared war on environmentalists.And started going after the Green Menace like Joe McCarthy went after the red one. Calling respected environmental…
I have written my last column for Sun News
…and appeared for the last time on the network. It’s a long (and perhaps interesting) story. Details to come.
Sunday Roundup: Harper Picked Chinese Pandas Over Journey of Nishiyuu Aboriginal Youth
By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive: This week six courageous “Journey of Nishiyuu” Aboriginal youth arrived in Ottawa after walking 1 600 kilometres from Whapmagoostui on Hudson Bay in…
Bad Religion, right now, who I love
And, as I remind my children all the time, the lead singer has a Ph.D and teaches at Cornell.