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“First-ever Rotary Ribfest promises finger-licking fun.” This is a day of ribs, chicken, soft drinks, beer and bands to raise money for Moncton Headstart, Moncton Youth Residencess and other youth…
May 2014
Shill, sham and flimflam
Perhaps Vaughn Palmer has a Red Telephone, a hotline for when BC Liberals want news initiated, altered or decried. The record is public and to evaluate, readers need simply ask,…
Linda Murphy Takes Drastic Action To Find A Place for Ashley – Well Done Linda, Well Done!
The picture above, as well as the italicized text below are from the CBC article Mother threatens to leave disabled daughter at minister’s office. In essence the mother Linda Murphy…
Alex Usher Needs to Consider Taxation
My debate with Alex Usher on tuition fees continues, over at the Academic Matters web site. In my latest post, I make the case that Mr. Usher needs to consider…
Some business groups want new recycling program trashed
By Steven Chua, The Canadian Press VANCOUVER – The B.C. government’s controversial new recycling program took effect Monday, irking some local business owners who say that additional costs will drive…
Nice Weather, Friends Visiting, No Time to Think about Heavy Stuff
Rekha Bitta and her family, whom I met nine years ago when I was doing research for Green City in Kochi, Kerala State India, was in town over the weekend.…
Did Lennart Bengtsson Know Global Warming Policy Foundation And Heartland Institute?
The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) has recently gotten worldwide publicity. It proudly announced that well-published climate scientist Lennart Bengtsson had joined its Academic Advisory Council (AAC), finally adding someone…
Tory health platform review: Direct promise to scrap LHINs, CCACs missing
Curiously after months of saying they’ll do away with both the Local Health Integration Networks and the Community Care Access Centres, both direct promises are conspicuously absent from the formal…
Voting—the opiate of the people?
A letter to the Deseret News, a Salt Lake City, Utah, daily paper, suggested rather unkindly that the rite of voting in the U.S. is nothing more than “the opiate…
John Tory should quit mayoralty race
Source? His former employer, Newstalk 1010. Ouch. That’s gonna leave a mark. .
I don’t see SFH on this list. WTF?
Seriously, don’t they know geriatric punk rock stars when they see them? .
Wynne pension plan bad for low-income earners: Maclean’s
In 2011, the Ontario Liberals missed a majority by one seat. This year, Kathleen Wynne’s election strategy is to campaign from the left, squeeze out the NDP and win that…
Not Trickledown But Gush-Up
“Trickledown hadn’t worked. But Gush-Up certainly has. That’s why in a nation of 1.2 billion, India’s one hundred richest people own assets equivalent to one fourth of the GDP.” That’s…
An interview with Brant MPP @DaveLevac (Part 1 – Speaker stuff)
I was up in Brantford yesterday and had the opportunity to visit the campaign offices of Dave Levac, current Liberal MPP for Brant and Speaker of the House in the…
These Ontario Liberal ads look great (despite what Warren Kinsella says…)
I loved this pre-writ ad produced by Kathleen Wynne’s team showcasing the kind of person and leader she is. It has over 500,000 views on YouTube and counting: This great…
Feds robocall themselves in search for unused telephone lines
Inspired by this headline: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/feds-robocall-themselves-in-search-for-unused-telephone-lines-1.2646727
Election 2014: Conservative media turn against 100,000 job cut plan
Tim Hudak’s promise to cut 100,000 jobs in the public sector is worrying even fellow Conservatives. In today’s National Post, right-wing columnist Tasha Kheiriddin says she can’t vote for Hudak…
Die Media Die: Paywalls Already On Way Out
I believe that over the next 24 months we will see the legacy meter model (yes, legacy only after two years) fade into the background. In its place we can…
Liberal vote splitting fallacy
Liberal supporters use fear mongering to weasel left-leaning votes. They say vote Liberal or the neo-con party will win because of vote splitting. But that’s not how it works. Certainly…