E-readers: worth the investment?
I have a passionate, somewhat obsessive, relationship with books. Real books: paper, ink and glue. Not digital books. I have a lot of books and I treasure each one like…
June 2014
Tim Hudak, the GOP and Voter Suppression
I posted recently about an Ontario conservative scheme to suppress the vote in the upcoming provincial election. A Party calling themselves None of the Above could be traced back to…
Support DeepCity 2030: A City Sim About Cats And Resilient Cities
DeepCity Pitch video from DeepCITY Project on Vimeo. DeepCity 2030 is like Sim City meets Clash of Clans plus a Laser Cat and at least one Disco Jesus. The game…
I really hope Kathleen Wynne makes more history for LGBT people on Thursday…
I was in the voting room at the Ontario Liberal leadership convention in January 2013 for the final ballot count which elected Kathleen Wynne. I had been there as a…
Warren’s witty, wacky, wonky weather wizardry
Good morning, Ontario! This rainy morn, we have two Ekos and Forum meteorological predictions wreaking havoc with PC governing plans – but, remember, Forum and Ekos have previously promised one…
The Suppository Of All Wisdom
Australian prime minister Tony Abbott visited Ottawa on Monday. He and Stephen Harper got along famously. Abbott called Harper, “an “exemplar” and a “beacon for centre-right parties around the world”.…
Ed Broadbent blasts Wynne’s presumptuous rhetoric
Apparently, Kathleen Wynne has become the champion of the poor and huddled masses this election. According to her, she has picked up the NDP torch left behind when Andrea Horwath…
New Learning
Those of you who are my age may remember something called ‘new math‘. The idea was to replace fixed-value mathematics, which is characterized with an emphasis on rote learning, with…
Error and effect of submissions of counsel
R. v. Kostyk, 2014 ONCA 447: In R. v. Polimac, 2010 ONCA 346, 254 C.C.C. (3d) 359, at para. 97, leave to appeal refused, S.C.C.A. No. 263, Doherty J.A. re-affirmed…
Stuff that can influence voter turnout
(1) Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Stephen Harper and the Republic of CanAlberta
It's one of the oldest and best known pictures of Stephen Harper. The Toronto nerd dressed up as an Alberta cowboy.The one who fell in so much love with that…
Analysis Of Gas Plants Scandal’s Effect On Ontario Election Polls…Expressed In Concrete Poetry!
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Teddy predicts a Liberal victory
And this is Teddy’s final prediction based on his gut and experience with politics. There is also not much to say about this one, as everything has been said already…
Hudak wins on the math
This is Teddy’s math based prediction. This uses poll averaging of the last 5 polls from the last 5 unique companies to put out polls. It also weighs any poll…
Biggest irony of the Ontario 2014 Election goes too…
Wynne says the NDP turned down the “most progressive budget in decades.” Of course, this implies there was two decades of regressive PC and Liberal government. None of it was…
Bullet-Proof Blankets for kids? Not the solution.
My reaction to bullet proof blankets for children: When I was a kid we had fire and earthquake drills. When I became a teacher I had to verse the children
Pollyanna Peek-a-Boo And Economic Unboom #nlpoli
Premier Peek-a-Boo took time out of his long, slow wander to the Premier’s Office this week to do an interview with the Grand Falls-Windsor Advertiser. Check it out. Frank Coleman…
Why I Might Vote for the Liberals in the Ontario Election.
With just two days before the Ontario election, and still not having decided whether to vote for the NDP or the Liberals, I decided to check out the lawn signs…
Slut Shaming, And Other Idiocy
Welcome to the cusp of spring-summer. Now that the weather is turning, the slut shaming and attacks on women’s clothing choices will ramp up. In Labrador, 28 girls were sent…