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Here. Wish we had a similar map for Canada. Anyone? .
Here. Wish we had a similar map for Canada. Anyone? .
This morning’s Star reports the fact that Canada’s sesquicentennial in 2017 is eliciting something less than enthusiasm from the majority of Canadians living outside of Alberta: Albertans are far more…
The Conservative Movement, that has been gaining momentum since the 1960s, has made one of their missions, destroying progressive agencies; especially those that support the Welfare State. In the U.S.,…
I have said that simply calling for PR (Proportional Voting) is not sufficient but that we must understand the various systems that are generally promoted as ‘proportional’, and the alternatives.…
It was the Snake’s birthday the other day. It has been a long time since Babel-on-the-Bay told you about him and his brother, the Corporal. It might not be political.…
As I have mentioned before, the story of Chris Alexander reminds in some ways of the Oscar Wilde story The Picture of Dorian Gray.Where the portrait of the bright, boyishly…
We frequently receive fan mail here at the blog from our adoring bonehead audience. Some of it comes from longtime readers while others are the result of boneheads finding us…
The Hancock Conservatives do good-cop-bad-cop? At left, Jeff Johnson as Jim Prentice, at right, tries to get him to straighten up and fly a little less far right. Actual Alberta…
Heather Mallick’s column about the public’s willingness to sell out to the corporate sector for cheap unfortunately meanders off on a few too many tangents before reaching much of a…
In the wake of the recent uproar over a doctor in Calgary refusing to prescribe hormonal birth control, and the SCotUS decision in Burwell v Hobby Lobby, it seems that…
Mayor Gregor Robertson and Vancouver Council have some tough questions for Kinder Morgan (facebook) By Dene Moore, The Canadian Press VANCOUVER – Kinder Morgan has failed to answer many of…
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger The BC Liberal Premier Christy Clark embraces the anti education, anti academic, anti-intellectual posture of a true Philistine. Let’s not beat around the bush. This attack is…
From a Facebook post. You can read the entire item HERE. “I sent a letter to Christie Clark’s office, Peter Fassbender’s office, and my MLA about two weeks ago. I…
Something really bad has happened to the quality of public opinion polls in Canada in recent years, particularly those trying to gauge voter opinions during election campaigns. Recent polling disasters…
Step by step the Canada’s Supreme Court is humanizing Canada in spite of our mean spirited Prime Minister and our chequered past treatment of First Nations peoples, culture and values.…
Readers of a certain age will remember an erstwhile popular feature carried in many newspapers, Ripley’s Believe It Or Not. Each day we would be invited to view a vignette…
“Shake hands with the nice man. First, I’ll take his job, and then later, when you’re all grown up, you can take mine!”
Page G8 of Saturday’s TandT has a full page titled “Five free things to see and do in Detroit”.I’m sure that will attract the full attention of those many New…
Long-time readers will remember when I did some fairly in-depth coverage of the 2009 Ontario PC leadership race. I was reading over some blog posts from that era, bit of…