I Have A Simpler Solution
The headline reads, Restaurant owners seek meeting with PM over foreign worker freeze The group representing Canada’s restaurant owners is calling for an urgent meeting with Prime Minister Stephen Harper…
May 2014
Jeffrey Simpson fallacy: corporate tax cuts good for economy
Jeffrey Simpson attacked Andrea Horwath’s plan to cancel Liberal corporate tax cuts. He takes the position it’s an obvious fact that corporate tax cuts are good for job creation, productivity…
Your Thursday Ipsos
Ontario Popular Vote Tightens as Liberals Rally (34%) to Within Two Points of Tories (36%), NDP Soften (23%) But Likely Turnout Shows Motivated PC Voters (41%) Delivering Big at the…
LOL: Andrea ‘too conservative’ for Jeffrey Simpson
The Globe & Mail’s Jeffrey Simpson is your typical red-Tory anti-NDP bigot who regularly writes columns attempting to eviscerate the NDP. One can’t help but laugh at Simpson’s latest op-ed…
Questions asked
If I presented you a professional who holds three university degrees, one a masters, a variety of professional development certificates and has 22 years’ experience, what would you say that…
Crashing Down to Earth.
In 2013, Canadian astronaut and all around cool dude Commander Chris Hadfield sang, recorded, and filmed a cover of David Bowie’s stargazing classic “Space Oddity.” The music video was a…
Ann Barrow
“Harper nominates next privacy watchdog” by Alex Boutilier, Toronto Star, May 29, 2014, s. A3. While the issue of the newly nominated Daniel Therrien, current Assistant Deputy Solicitor General, by…
Kinder Morgan faces 10,000 questions on Vancouver pipeline
By The Canadian Press VANCOUVER – Kinder Morgan is asking for more time to respond to over 10,000 questions submitted to the National Energy Board about the proposed expansion of…
Thanks to Laurie, Mik and the Turks and Caicos Islands: Glad the Latter Weren’t Annexed 40 Years Ago
Apparently the door is still open for Canada to annex the Turks and Caicos Islands, but it doesn’t look all that likely. The idea is just as intriguing as it…
Thats a busy busy dog.
m.motherjones.com/environment/20… I! LOVE! IT! Busy hound chases details while the path is obvious.— doug rogers (@dougsamu) May 29, 2014 Filed under: art
Putting The Climate-Change ‘Debate’ Into Perspective
I think John Oliver does this rather effectively: And on a more sobering note, you might like to gnaw on this ominous nugget. Recommend this Post
Shale Rush Hits Argentina as Oil Majors Spend Billions on Fracking in Andes Region
While many countries, including France, Germany and South Africa, have banned or delayed their embrace of fracking, one country is taking a full-steam-ahead approach to the unconventional drilling technology: Argentina.…
Me and Sun News
The Warren Haters had a momentary adrenalin rush, there, thinking that my years-long relationship with Sun News was coming to an end, didn’t they? (Go suck an egg, Glen MacGregor.)…
Could Alberta go green?
With 50 per cent more greenhouse gas emissions than Ontario, Alberta is Canada’s pollution province. And that makes us think of the tar sands. But it’s more than bitumen. Alberta’s…
Use the Internet to save the Internet – and win an incredible pro-Internet prize pack
At OpenMedia, we love sharing and collaborating with our global community when it comes to formulating effective and game changing digital policy. That means using the Internet to save the…
GovernmAnt surplus auction on now
Inspired by this headline: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/government-surplus-auction-site-sells-cars-jewelry-office-furniture-1.2649860
Mr. Hudak meets Mr. Dictionary for the very first time!
As I write this, Timmie is Googling the word “economics”… Ms. Wynne is being so unfair using such darned big words!!! I have italicized the phrase noting the flaw that…
Tory Turmoil For Tim Hudak
See PCPO candidate Jeff Bennett disown Tim hudak’s 1,000,000 jobs plan at local candidates debate.
Environmental Legislation Killed by the Ontario Election
Environment Minister Jim Bradley and Natural Resources Minister David Orazietti speak with reporters at Queen’s Park. June, 2013. (Photo by Andrew Reeves) SO WE KEEP WAITING. Ontario’s environmental community had…