Arseny Yatsenyuk and the Ukraine’s ‘End Game’
Foxy Yatsenyuk could be a Ukrainian Hero I have started innumerable draft posts about Ukraine over the past few weeks, but there was little room for anything but speculation. The…
April 2014
April 12:When the real headline is the bottom line.
There’s a curious story that gets a banner headline on page of today’s TandT. “B.B changes handling of young offenders” It tells how young offenders have been held in open…
"Our Fate Rests With This Appeal": First Nation Takes National Energy Board to Court Over Line 9 Approval
The Chippewas of the Thames First Nation have launched a legal challenge against the National Energy Board’s (NEB) decision to approve Enbridge’s Line 9 oil pipeline project in southern Ontario…
Great line of the day
From Thomas Walkom’s column about Jim Flaherty and the CBC cuts — CBC cuts show other side of Jim Flaherty: Those who knew him say he was hard-working, loyal to…
Canadians will forever be indebted because of Jim…
Canadians will forever be indebted because of Jim Flaherty. Regardless of what one thinks of the recently deceased man on a personal level, if one uses objective, non-emotional criteria, it…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Ezra Klein comments on the U.S.’ doom loop of oligarchy – as accumulated wealth is spent to buy policy intended to benefit nobody…
You Know Things Are Really Bad
…when even The Globe and Mail takes issue with its party of choice. In a blistering editorial entitled Harper Tories undermining democracy, to their own peril, the Globe attacks the…
Competition?
Hi cenobyte, How have you been? I understand you only wanted to communicate to your previous consultant but I am emailing you now check on the update for your book.…
OLP Should Approve Some Nominations
The lesson from this story also applies here, I think. The best spin I can put on the party’s behavior is that they’re dithering because they’re not sure yet whether…
Hudak vows to cancel full day Kindergarten
As a volunteer on a not-for-profit childcare centre Board, I can say with some authority that the FDK horse has left the barn. There has been some bumps on the…
The Vapid Party
Conservatives, Andrew Coyne writes, believe in absolutes and reject moral relativism: Conservatives at their best disdain the lazy moral relativism that passes for sophistication in some corners of the left.…
Fracking Causes Earthquakes
Fracking caused over 100 earthquakes in Ohio. State geologists in Ohio have for the first time linked earthquake activity in the Marcellus Shale basin to hydraulic fracturing, confirming the suspicions…
A Powerful Indictment
Thanks to The Salamader for bringing the following letter by Jacob Kearey-Moreland to my attention. Published yesterday in The Orillia Packet and Times, it is a powerful indictment of the…
You get what you pay for Charles.
The Ontario Liberals have called in another blue ribbon panel to tell them how to make more money from provincial assets such as the Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO),…
Senategate : The RCMP Goes After the PMO !!!
Oh goody. It looks as if my favourite show Senategate is back.With the whole cast of characters ready to entertain us again.And now even MORE exciting than before.With the RCMP…
Saturday At The Movies
This is incredibly beautiful – newborn twins sharing a bath respond to each other like they are still in the womb. *
Alberta Tories on public service pensions: ‘We lied. So what are you gonna do about it?’
As Tory leadership candidates Thomas Lukaszuk, standing, and Doug Horner look on, Alberta Premier pro tempore Dave Hancock tries out the barrel in which the next leader of the Progressive…
Electronic music, raves & Toronto’s moral panic on drugs
…they do the work because they want to re-produce the type of city they want to live- the type of city that is worth living in. … …not all entertainment…
Rich people rule!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/04/08/rich-people-rule/ Filed under: Class, Democracy, Political Science, The State