End of Winter Blahs….
A combination of sick grandkids who share their microbes with their grandparents and my own interesting health sitautioin (cataract surgery on Monday) means that there haven’t been much in the…
March 2014
Is Omnibus legislation a Conservative Disease?
The following data visualization shows the total number of pages of legislation drafted to implement budgets tabled from 1994 to 2014. It also shows the average per year for the…
Ukraine: The Solution is at hand
Foreign Minister Lavrov – the man with the answer Within a week or so the outlines of a solution to the Ukraine predicament will become clear to all. As I…
Harper’s fiscal straight-jacket: $44-billion/yr in reckless tax cuts
Neo-con economist Stephen Gordon has nothing but praise for Harper’s “starve the beast” hidden agenda. He boiled it down to a 4 step process: Recklessly cut taxes. Manufacture a budget…
A big mug of tea for a Saturday afternoon
Discovering that Paper is great for quick choices without a lot of forethought about how things are going to be done. Still, Procreate is vaster, subtler and with more options.…
Canada’s transformation under neoliberalism
Even before that transformation began, Canada was hardly a model of inclusion, equality, and democracy. But in the latter years of the postwar expansion, Canada progressed both economically and socially.…
Game Review: Long Live The Queen
This is basically a choose your own adventure with a basic skills system attached to it. The concept is deceivingly simply, but the game itself is devilishly complicated. What impressed…
Is Your Job Bullshit?
Work should be liberating, not enslaving! It’s Saturday so it’s the weekend so you’re not working. But that’s just an incorrect hypothesis. Lots of people are working this weekend. In…
March 29: It’s official…….
…based on regularity of appearance and length of stories, the most important event in New Brunswick, perhaps in the world so far in this year is the quarrel over recreation…
The PCs scorched earth policy on Alison Redford
When Vladimir Lenin led the Bolshevik revolution of 1917, his right hand man was Leon Trotsky. When Lenin and Trotsky had a falling out — never a good thing in…
Climate change is having impact across the globe
Residents walk across the frozen Songhua River in front of smoke stacks at Jiamusi, in China’s northeast Heilongjiang province Sunday Dec. 4, 2005. (AP Photo/Greg Baker) | ASSOCIATED PRESS This…
Stealing Democracy Part XII: More Revelations On Quebec, and Bill C-23
As more incidents of voter suppression in Quebec come to the surface, the picture starts to become a little more clear. Yesterday, we learned about a Green Party candidate who…
These four lovable moptops changed my life
What a picture. “…Their SOUND was forever first and one-two-three-foremost within their arsenal, but the band’s look posture, taste, aroma, and very thorn-in-the-craw omnipresence offered vital inspiration, and delivered desperately…
A New Fun Project: Who Is The Joseph Howe Institute?
The reason I ask is, they’re holding a Communicating Energy Conference, somewhere in Toronto, the first weekend of June. The advert is below: Of Ezra Levant and Marc Morano have…
An Early Morning TV Interview About My Book
Yesterday morning, I got up really early and travelled to the studios of CanadaAM in Toronto. Here’s the interview about the new paperback edition of my book, “The Four Walls…
Pay yourself first
March is Women’s History Month (in the US). I’m taking this opportunity to write about women who’ve inspired me. There was really little more than native grass and dust in…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Robert Reich discusses the Koch brothers and their place in the U.S.’ new plutocracy: The Kochs exemplify a new reality that strikes at…
Byline: three segments for your viewing (dis)pleasure
My second failed attempt at hosting Sun News Network’s Byline, below. Comments are welcome, but anyone who takes a cheap shot about hairlines is banned for life.
A Simple Truth
But one, of course, that our political overlords have no interest in considering: Re: Polls expert fears Bill C-23 imperils voters’ rights, March 26 The response from Minister Pierre Poilievre’s…
Is the White House burning?
The last time Canada and the United States went to war on some pretext, our British troops went to Washington and set fire to the White House. That was 200…