Rob Ford’s Desperately Humiliating Hollywood Adventure
Well he went down to Los Angeles where he was given the celebrity treatment by Jimmy Kimmel.It all went to his head like a hit from a crack pipe.Until he…
March 2014
The Ukraine Crisis, the Con Klowns, and the Cold War Warriors
It's hard to imagine a scarier situation than the threat of a superpower confrontation in the Crimean peninsula.The Obama administration said Monday that any Russian threat to Ukraine's navy would…
Christine Lagarde angers Spain with repeat prescription of austerity
Christine Lagarde angers Spain with repeat prescription of austerity – http://feeds.theguardian.com/c/34708/f/663828/s/37bc8c9c/sc/7/l/0L0Stheguardian0N0Cworld0C20A140Cmar0C0A30Cchristine0Elagarde0Espain0Eausterity0Eimf0Emadrid/story01.htm – sent from the Guardian Anywhere app Filed under: Uncategorized
When Progressive Bloggers attack each other
Richard Fantin, blogger, thinks I am to blame for the ills of the youth. He thinks it’s fine that Millenials blame me, too. I did it all, you see. I…
The End is at Hand! Sure looks that way for Alberta’s PCs, anyway…
Members of the Alberta Tory caucus consider the latest poll results as they prepare for the 2016 provincial election. Actual Alberta Progressive Conservative MLAs may not appear exactly as illustrated.…
Nenshi: Right About LRTs, Wrong About Ideology
Calgary's Mayor Naheed Nenshi visited Toronto last week and made some sensible comments about LRTs. He also made some mushy and poorly reasoned comments about ideology, his ideas are popular,…
Nenshi: Right About LRTs, Wrong About Ideology
Calgary’s Mayor Naheed Nenshi visited Toronto last week and made some sensible comments about LRTs. He also made some mushy and poorly reasoned comments about ideology, his ideas are popular,…
Nenshi: Right About LRTs, Wrong About Ideology
Calgary's Mayor Naheed Nenshi visited Toronto last week and made some sensible comments about LRTs. He also made some mushy and poorly reasoned comments about ideology, his ideas are popular,…
The coming age of agesism
Another Progressive Blogger has put up a post that I feel I must respond to. It’s a rare occurrence, but since I believe that I accurately fit the description of…
Nenshi: Right About LRTs, Wrong About Ideology
Calgary’s Mayor Naheed Nenshi visited Toronto last week and made some sensible comments about LRTs. He also made some mushy and poorly reasoned comments about ideology, his ideas are popular,…
In Tuesday’s Sun: …in which I use a word to describe the National Post that I am not allowed to use
As Russia and the Ukraine slip towards war – and as the West looks on, unable or unwilling to do anything – it’s easy to forget that nice things still…
Financial Post: Industry Minister Moore blocks Bell and Rogers from obtaining Nextwave’s wireless spectrum
Ottawa has blocked telecom giants Bell and Rogers from gobbling up even more scarce and valuable wireless spectrum. Let’s keep up the pressure on Industry Minister Moore to rein in…
BC Budget a work of fiction: Economist
BC Liberal Finance Minister Mike de Jong tables a fairytale budget – Feb. 18, 2014 The crafting of a government budget is always fictional because it comes from the minds…
Intervention and Dissention…
The Ukraine crisis: John Kerry and NATO must calm down and back off The Guardian 2 Mar 2014: Jonathan Steele: The hysterical reaction to Russian military movements in Crimea won’t…
My two predictions for not-so-distant future
1. As climate change slowly becomes a reality to the deniers, expect those deniers outside Canada to be the first to invade our borders to take advantage of our uncommonly…
BC’s LNG exports drain water resources
BC Premier, Christy Clark, announcing the agreement to build an LNG facility at Grassy Point (Photo: BC Gov Photos | Flickr). Read this Feb 24th article in The Province by…
Campaign Hours
This is an interesting article by David Rosen (First Person Politics) from Campaigns & Elections about how we burn out our campaign workers on election campaigns. My first reaction to…
CanadiAnt Gov’t reduced to ‘gestures’ on Ukraine, say former top envoys
Inspired by these stories: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ottawa-reduced-to-gestures-on-ukraine-say-former-top-envoys-1.2557882 http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ukraine-standoff-being-monitored-by-canadian-government-1.2558118
Gone, But Never Forgotten
Each year, George Carlin’s acerbic commentary and observations become more and more relevant. If we don’t want a repeat of what happened last time, then it’s up to us to…