Being a good guy doesn’t excuse Chuck Strahl’s lack of judgment
I don’t know Chuck Strahl, but I’ve always thought he seemed like a pretty good guy, all in all. He certainly has won many friends on all sides of the…
January 2014
Rampage of the Right
It’s ongoing in Canada. It’s happening in Australia. It’s well underway in Britain. In the Conservative ruled Anglosphere, governments are busy dismantling environmental protections. The focus, at the moment, is…
OHA asks for capacity planning but attacks rights of transferred workers
The Ontario Hospital Association must be finally feeling the pinch of fiscal restraint and so-called “funding reforms” that have worked against their bottom line for at least the past four…
Jan. 27: I was wrong.
It’s been bothering me since yesterday when I wrote that New Brunswick is a fascist state. It isn’t. As Benito Mussolini defined it, a fascist state is one run by…
Thank you for helping to build a more Connected Canada!
Thank you to everyone for speaking out in support of a more Connected Canada! Your OpenMedia.ca team is working hard to put together all your thoughts and ideas. In the…
MLA Janice Sarich not jumping into federal politics
TweetEdmonton-Decore Progressive Conservative MLA Janice Sarich released this statement this morning announcing that she will not seek the Conservative Party nomination in the new federal riding of Edmonton-Griesbach: After a…
Yep, That’s the Face of Fascism All Right.
To Benito Mussolini, Il Duce, fascism was the merger of political and corporate power. Now brace yourself for this, Canada. There’s probably nothing that says fascism more than the seamless…
The birth of the Mac, the death of the typewriter.
Thirty years ago this past Saturday, Apple founder Steve Jobs introduced something called the Macintosh computer to the world. As we all know now — but didn’t then, as is…
Krugman Dissects America’s Rich
Paul Krugman concludes that the richest of the rich think differently than the rest of us, see themselves differently than the rest of us see them and inhabit an alternate…
Manitoba government floats northern oil, LNG port for Churchill
The port of Churchill (John Woods) Read this Jan. 18 story from The Winnipeg Free Press on a new government report envisioning the transformation of the northern port of Churchill,…
Two Richmond Boycotts for 2014
Bill Zylmans, that awkward racist guy. First we have IKEA’s union busting, coming up on one year of locking out their workers because they won’t take major concessions in the…
Philosophy is Needed in Corporate Boardrooms
It’s not often that you hear CEOs and other executives call for philosophers to be among their boards. In a recent Financial Times article, there is an argument that businesses…
I Shop, Therefore I Am
First and foremost, how do you see yourself? Are you a citizen more than a consumer, or vice-versa? Are high-minded principles and vision your defining characteristic, or is how to…
The Paranoia of the Plutocrats
The rich are different from you and me department: as usual Krugman nails it in today’s New York Times. He comments about the out-of-the-ballpark criticism by the 1 per cent…
The might, the right and the fight.
Back in the 1800s when Oliver Mowat was Premier of Ontario, he had his best fights not with his provincial opponents but with the federal government. His skill as a…
140Law – Legal Headlines for Monday, January 27, 2014
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Monday, January 27, 2014: Brain-dead pregnant Marlise Munoz removed from life support, body released to husband Protecting Yourself…
Why is the Ontario government placing 800 kids at risk?
Just saw this. Happening in Northumberland – Cobourg, Brighton, all around there – right now, this week. This is outrageous. Eight hundred kids! Where is the Opposition, where is the…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Angelina Chapin highlights the drastic impact a guaranteed annual income would have on Canadians currently living in poverty: To set and meet goals,…
Left-Right political dichotomies
Well-written, but based entirely on a false premise. The only people who believe that Left-Right political analysis matters anymore are journalists and politicos. To your average person – to Joe…
In today’s Hill Times (and tomorrow’s Sun): Mark Adler, the face of Parliamentary irrelevance
Makes you wish we had Ken Dryden again, doesn’t it? Mark Adler, that is. The Conservative York Centre MP was notable only for one thing, before this week. He was…