Danielle Takacs is the Liberal candidate for Brantford-Brant
It was great to join over 100 Liberals on Thursday evening as my friend Danielle Takacs was nominated as the Liberal Party of Canada candidate in her hometown of Brantford.…
August 2014
W@AL: don’t try this on your bike at home, kids
God bless America.
Liberals playing stupid numbers game.
It makes sense that you would not waste your good ideas a year before the election but nobody wants to play the numbers game. It is just that the last…
Liberal Majority, second try
Due to some mapping errors in the last post, I decided to do another post about the possibility of a Liberal majority. Rather than attempt a reverse prediction, I’ve simply…
The Randian
http://chronicle.com/ The death of Tina Fontaine has once again sparked demands for a public enquiry into
Gut instincts
A story on Science Daily says research suggests our so-called “free will” may be less free than we ever imagined. We may, instead, be meat puppets ruled by the desires…
Wouldn’t A Taser Have Been More Appropriate?
I have often thought that had the video evidence not been so strong and graphic in the shooting of Sammy Yatim, the ‘official’ police story would have been that the…
Ethical Oil Complaint To Canadian Judicial Council Fails: Judge Ducharme Off Hook For For Participating In David Suzuki Mock Trial
Ezra and Co. (young Amanda) try to soften their defeat by marking up the document with snarky liner notes CJC Response to Complaint Against Justice Todd Ducharme …but if they…
Stephen Harper and the Real Elitist Menace
As I pointed out yesterday, Stephen Harper has a new weapon in his arsenal to try to destroy Justin Trudeau.He will not only claim that Justin wants to sell pot…
Stephen Harper and the Myths that Will Destroy Him
As I said in my last post, I don't think Stephen Harper is going to get very far accusing Justin Trudeau of being an elitist. When he is the worst…
Summer reading: Command and Control
From the blurb: “Written with the vibrancy of a first-rate thriller, Command and Control interweaves the minute-by-minute story of an accident at a nuclear missile silo in rural Arkansas with…
RIP—and thanks for the beer, Ed
The inventor of my favourite beer died this week. Ed McNally, former lawyer and barley farmer, who founded Big Rock Breweries in 1985 and introduced Traditional Ale (Trad to us…
Term limits on Alberta MLAs? ‘I think Jim Prentice is trying to lose… nothing else makes sense’
“A night to remember”: Jim Prentice explains to reporters how term limits for MLAs can work. Really! Below: The orchestra the Tories should have hired to play the lunchtime event.…
Prentice term-limit idea is gimmicky and probably unconstitutional
TweetYou are Jim Prentice. You have the podium and the attention of Alberta’s media. You are the next Premier of Alberta. You can dream big. You could promise to replace…
PC Party compared MLA term-limits to whims of an Ayatollah or a general
TweetToday, Alberta Progressive Conservative Party leadership candidate Jim Prentice proposed term-limits for Premiers and MLAs. The following is an excerpt from an editorial on term-limits for MLAs that was printed…
Corniglia from one of my sisters photos
Filed under: art Tagged: madeWithPaper
Federal documents show Harper’s Conservatives are thwarting scientists’ efforts to keep Canadians informed on Arctic ice levels
Federal scientists who keep a close eye on the Arctic ice would like to routinely brief Canadians about extraordinary events unfolding in the North.But newly released federal documents show the…
Tina Fontaine: Aboriginal Teen’s Death Reignites Calls For Inquiry
The death of teenage Tina Fontaine has re-ignited calls for national public inquiry into the case of nearly 1,200 missing and murdered aboriginal women in Canada. The post Tina Fontaine:…
We’re taking your Online Privacy concerns straight to the B.C. Legislature – and we need to hear from you.
Ever wanted to have your opinions heard by key decision makers in B.C.? Now’s your chance. Our own David Christopher has been invited to present the pro-Internet community’s concerns about…
August 21: a sore thumb, and a world gone mad….
It’s on page C1 of Wednesday’s paper “Rail report targets safety issues.” This is the report of a federal commission to determine the causes of the train derailment that killed…