Parsing The Martha Hall Findlay Apology
Dear Justin, My campaign for LPoC leader is so fucking doomed right now that its pathetic, and afterwards I’ll have nothing to show for it but debt. Debt, debt, and…
2013
#LPCLdr Debate #3: Finally, some action.
The third of five debates (which you can watch here) between the nine Liberal leadership candidates was held a couple of days ago, except this time it was so much…
Another Liberal debate – JT came out of it smelling like roses
Another in the series of Liberal debates happened on the weekend. As you might have heard, Martha Hall Findlay decided to go after Justin Trudeau on the question of privilege…
Climate Emergency: Arctic Sea Ice Bombshell
* As Joe Romm at ThinkProgress points out, this should be the story of the week/year/decade: Now the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), the UK’s primary agency for funding and…
Muskrat Falls: delayed dividends, more equity needed #nlpoli
The provincial “mid-year” financial update included a familiar claim about the Muskrat Falls project: We estimate that the province will see revenues in excess of $20 billion over 50 years…
The Stupidity of Rex Murphy and the Impending Extinction of Humanity
Today’s column comes to you courtesy of Rex Murphy. When I was growing up, I remember listening to Rex on the radio and liking him. Later, he turned to newspaper…
The Humiliating Collapse of The Porky Action Plan
Uh oh. The alarms are honking away at Porky Action Headquarters. The Con hogs are still strutting around on their hind legs promoting their fraudulent porky plan.But the reviews are…
Ottawa Citizen’s Bridge to Nowhere: Canada’s Broken Adult Autism Care System
Long time members of the Autism Society New Brunswick, particularly those from the Fredericton area, will recognize in the picture above former NB’er Linda Murphy and her daughter Ashley who…
The difference between dogs and cats
It’s the crash at the end that slays me again…
Its a pipeline, not a morality play
In The Keystone Principle: Stop making it worse environmentalist KC Golden makes the ridiculous argument that opposing the Keystone pipeline is some kind of moral test of environmental purity: Keystone…
How To Spot A Fake Grassroots Movement
PERHAPS somebody should write a pocket guide book with the title: “How to spot you’ve been suckered by a fake grassroots movement”. Once it’s written, these guide books could be…
Canadian’s Don’t Buy Mulcair’s "50 Plus One" Pitch
Three out of four Canadians reject NDP leader Tom Mulcair’s contention that the barest of majorities, 50 per cent plus one, in support of Quebec sovereignty should oblige the federal…
The Keystone Cons and the Day of Reckoning
It was a stirring sight.Tens of thousands of protesters braving the freezing cold to try to stop the planet from burning.Demanding that Obama kill the Keystone XL pipeline.Canada’s carbon-intensive oilsands…
How the English saw Canada in 1941
Here's the start of a plot summary for the British film 49th Parallel, a film set in World War II: "U-37, the first German submarine to reach Canada, sinks a…
A wireless code is nice, but more competition would be even better Barrie McKenna
Columnist says the CRTC should dismantle the foreign ownership restrictions that keep the industry in too few Canadian hands and ban outsiders from controlling telecoms.
The “Tone at the Top” from two perspectives: Richard Nixon and the AHS
When Richard Nixon told David Frost than an illegal activity is not illegal “when the president does it” he confirmed what we’d all suspected: the “tone at the top” as…
Nicaragua Day 7: Some bumps along the road
SANTA MARTA – We were thankful for the rain. Without it we would have been forced to choose between the dust or the heat on the small Toyota bus as…
The Strange Case Of Vivian Maier
Not a new story but still a spectacular one. How someone who would have been a peer to the likes of Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Diane Arbus and Gary Winogrand…