The Bunker Buster
http://backofthebook.ca/ The conventional wisdom these days seems to hold that Stephen Harper will never testify at Mike Duffy’s trial. But Scott Reid, who used to be Paul Martin’s director of…
September 2014
Good writing, bad math in the Star.
The Toronto Star editors certainly enjoy stirring the pot. They are always in the market for 800 words of controversy to support differing opinions on current subjects. This is why…
Peabody Energy Booted From S&P 500, King Coal on the Defensive as Market Signals Industry Decline
King Coal and industry multinational Peabody Energy (BTU) have taken a beating in the markets lately, and it has some executives in the dirty energy industry freaking out. On September…
Will Caroline Flint Ignite Labour Climate Change Fight?
Caroline Flint (pictured), of the Labour party, is centre stage with the opportunity to influence the international debate on climate change. Rarely in politics is there such a confluence of…
Big Daddy Harper and the Climate of Fear
Well in my last post I predicted that Stephen Harper would try to use the ISIS threat to behead Canadians in their bedrooms, to maximum political advantage.By trying to make…
Diverting Organic Waste – There’s Money on Your Plate
The following post is dedicated to my wife Sarah, who has been an inspiration to me over the years. The idea for this topic is hers. Thank you, Sarah! —–…
Guilty Plea in Rehtaeh Parsons Case
The news, which as far as I can tell Canadas’s major news organizations have yet to mention , is here. As to the controversy around Anonymous’ efforts to keep this…
Ranked Balloting (Toronto) Primer: This Needs to Happen
In 2013, City Council voted 25-16 in favour of a motion that (among other things) asked the province to implement legislation authorizing ranked balloting (or "instant runoff voting" - IRV)…
Ranked Balloting (Toronto) Primer: This Needs to Happen
In 2013, City Council voted 25-16 in favour of a motion that (among other things) asked the province to implement legislation authorizing ranked balloting (or “instant runoff voting” – IRV)…
Ranked Balloting (Toronto) Primer: This Needs to Happen
In 2013, City Council voted 25-16 in favour of a motion that (among other things) asked the province to implement legislation authorizing ranked balloting (or "instant runoff voting" - IRV)…
Ranked Balloting (Toronto) Primer: This Needs to Happen
In 2013, City Council voted 25-16 in favour of a motion that (among other things) asked the province to implement legislation authorizing ranked balloting (or “instant runoff voting” – IRV)…
Needed: a local think-tank #nlpoli
Anyone who was paying attention to these things has known for about 25 years that the province would face a demographic crunch starting ‘round about now. Anyone who has been…
New Brunswick "Final" Results.
Following the total fiasco on election night, some “final” results have come out. Precluding a data entry error in my part, the results are as follows: note: edited to fix…
Yellow light for Todd
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission. Todd Bentley evidently sees his recent trip to British Columbia as a success, as he’s planning more. From Sept. 25-28 he’ll…
People’s Climate March
On Sunday I attended a climate rally in Regina with what looked to be well over a hundred other people. It’s too bad more of the 33,400 Rider fans in…
Brandon Martinez Schooled on Paulie’s Facebook Wall
Our resident vampire has taken an extended vacation but should be back in October or early November. In the meantime you'll have to put up with more of me and…
Comforted by false reality
A New York Times article, The Surprisingly Large Cost of Telling Small Lies, quotes a successful English business person about the need to confront truths, even uncomfortable ones, “…telling lies…
Calgary’s new ‘Band-Aid’ schools: just the thing for a government suffering the death of a thousand cuts
Temporary structures like the army huts in the background, built in 1939 and ’40, were still in use when this shot was taken at the just-formed University of Victoria circa…
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Harper claims to champion the health of women and children in developing countries
Prime Minister Stephen Harper now claims to champion “the health of women and children in developing countries,” heads to New York to address the UN General Assembly for the first…