Feel Better By Visiting Your Local Library
It turns out that by simply using your local library you can improve your life – no matter what you read. As long as you make use of what the…
September 2014
More Evidence That Stephen Harper is Planning an Early Election
If there was any doubt that Stephen Harper is going for an early election, maybe even sooner than most people imagine, now there can be none.For not only is he…
The end of everything
Something to think about, on the last day of Summer. From the NYT:
Stephen Harper and the Climate Change Revolt
They marched in Canada, they marched all over world, and in New York it was one of the biggest demonstrations that city has ever seen. Legions of demonstrators frustrated by…
Edges #nlpoli
The Premier’s Office issued a couple of news releases last week about what someone they called the Premier-Designate would be doing. The first release was a curiosity. The second one…
CRTC Amps Up the Volume on Commercials
CRTC Amps Up the Volume on Commercials (Abstract: so far no-one has come clean on the CRTC’s decision to allow/facilitate cable companies’ jacking up volumes on digital commercial content exponentially…
CRTC Amps Up the Volume on Commercials
CRTC Amps Up the Volume on Commercials (Abstract: so far no-one has come clean on the CRTC’s decision to allow/facilitate cable companies’ jacking up volumes on digital commercial content exponentially…
CRTC Amps Up the Volume on Commercials
CRTC Amps Up the Volume on Commercials(Abstract: so far no-one has come clean on the CRTC’s decision to allow/facilitate cable companies’ jacking up volumes on digital commercial content exponentially beyond…
CRTC Amps Up the Volume on Commercials
CRTC Amps Up the Volume on Commercials (Abstract: so far no-one has come clean on the CRTC’s decision to allow/facilitate cable companies’ jacking up volumes on digital commercial content exponentially…
Be careful what you ask for! Jim Prentice walks away with the Wildrose political play book
Premier Jim Prentice. Below: Wildrose Party Leader Danielle Smith and former party strategist Tom Flanagan, this time on the button. As the expression goes: be careful what you ask for!…
Dear Rob Anders, Take a Hint and Take a Hike.
TweetMany Canadians hoped to have bid a final farewell to offensive conservative Member of Parliament Rob Anders when he lost the Conservative Party nomination in Calgary-Signal Hill to Ron Liepert…
US guilty of war crimes in Palestine
Photo by Marius Arnesen The U.S. is not a neutral mediator in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict; it is an active participant and is guilty of the crimes being committed by Israel…
Everything changes in New Brunswick
A Forum poll has changed everything in the New Brunswick election. This, clearly, changes the math; in addition, it radically changes my gut prediction. My gut is able to read…
Jim Prentice’s First Week in Office–Straight out of the Corporate Playbook
“As of this moment, Alberta is under new management.” — Jim Prentice, 16th Premier of Alberta* Transition. There’s nothing more unsettling; no, strike that, nerve-wracking, for an organization than a…
I Am Hoping for NDP Voices in the NB Legislature to Help Families Advocate for An Adult Autism Care Facility
The picture above is from Conor’s 2nd Birthday on February 2, 1998. The next day we received his autism disorder diagnosis, described initially as Pervasive Developmental Disorder Not Otherwise Specified,…
50 Canadian Climate Experts Support People’s Climate March
In a letter supporting the People’s Climate March, 50 Canadian climate change and sustainability researchers warn that Canada is running a sustainability deficit. The post 50 Canadian Climate Experts Support…
US guilty of war crimes in Palestine
The U.S. is not a neutral mediator in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict; it is an active participant and is guilty of the crimes being committed by Israel against Palestinians, most recently,…
No Data Are Better Than Bad Data
The full name of an article I read today is, “The Fallacy of Online Surveys: No Data Are Better Than Bad Data.” It’s from 2010 and very good. You can…