Rick Mercer Has Certainly Got The Harper Cabal’s Number
Rick recognizes that they only merit mockery: After chuckling, you might want to make your feelings known to ‘the powers that be‘. Recommend this Post
February 2014
Another Conservative Fears Tim Hudak’s Right-to-Work Gambit ( #pcpo #onpoli )
There’s another Conservative who’s worried about Tim Hudak’s right-to-work plans. The MPP for Durham, Conservative John O’Toole, believes that the Conservative Party’s plan to introduce right-to-work legislation could cost them…
Shale gas, LNG exports and the elephant in the room
I listened intermittently to the Public Proceedings of the Yukon Legislature’s “Select Committee Regarding the Risks and Benefits of Hydraulic Fracturing” held in Whitehorse on January 31 and February 1.…
My proposal for a fair and open electoral process
Justin Trudeau has promised that we will have fair and open nominations in every riding. I think it is exciting that we will see all 338 of our candidates selected…
Saudi Arabia demonstrates the slippery slope of ‘anti-terrorism’
Saudi Arabia’s new anti-terrorism law to criminalise any form of dissent – including demanding political reform and exposing corruption Saudi Arabia has put into effect a sweeping counter-terrorism law that…
Walking or Biking Through Neighbourhoods Makes You Like Them More
Walking or biking through neighbourhoods will increase the likelihood that you think positively of that space. A bunch of research has concluded that people have an increase tendency to positively…
Palestinians Want NATO Buffer
Palestinian Authority president Mahmound Abbas is floating the idea of a permanent, i.e. generational, NATO force to patrol a buffer zone separating his nation from Israel. Palestine, he said, would…
How do you see Toronto?
This is an amazing piece of work, sent by an acquaintance of a friend. I don’t know the author’s name. But if they’re reading this, I say: do more stuff…
Public Image Ltd.
I post this for four unrelated reasons: 1. It’s relevant to current events (cf. what John Tory did to his public image yesterday). 2. Tomorrow Michael Coren is interviewing Clash…
Care to Take Your Own Temperature?
Ever wonder what global warming has done to temperatures where you live? The University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit has developed an interactive layer for Google Earth that lets…
Saving the NDP—and the Senate?
It took some digesting. Long-time New Democrat Robin Sears tried his hand in the Toronto Star the other day at damning Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau while hoping to rescue NDP…
Canada’s Veterans Need Protection from Conservatives, Part 2 ( #cpc #cdnpoli )
On the following motion. That, in the opinion of the House, the men and women who bravely serve Canada in the armed forces should be able to count on the…
NHH certified diabetes educators really do exist despite hospital denials
It’s one thing not to be acknowledged for the work you do. It’s quite another when your hospital says you don’t do that work at all. Northumberland Hills Hospital (NHH)…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Tuesday, February 4, 2014
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Tuesday, February 4, 2014: Election reform bill’s contents not shared with Elections Canada Liability and the sexually transmitted…
Brazeau, Harb charges coming?
My old colleague Tonda gets the scoop, here. If true about Mac Harb, very disappointed to see. I knew him when he was an MP, and considered him to be…
Too Good To Resist
And, of course, Fantino and the entire cabal showed what they are really made of yesterday in The House of Commons. For an incisive evisceration of Fantino et al., check…
The real deficit and the phoney one
Economist Hugh Mackenzie has written two recent BLOG posts on the phoney deficit and the real one — the deficit in public services Ontarians rely upon. The Behind The Numbers…
Will any Calgary Grits be going to Ottawa in 2015?
Nenshi made history in 2010. His Chief of Staff might do the same in 2015. We’ve all heard the jokes. When Calgary was hit with flooding in 2005, the Calgary…
The Stigma Within Themselves
Yesterday, the Harper Party defeated an NDP motion to reverse the closure of Veterans Affairs Offices across the country. Julian Fantino has been the face of the government on this…