Hungry Children in Nunavik Study Shorter than Peers
Front page of the Nunatsiaq News – will it make it to the Globe and Mail?
September 2014
Harper’s politics of cynicism….
… and an empty shelf in the pantry where “ethics” used to be… Wandering around the Interweb, I found this cutting piece that brilliantly sums up the CPC modus operandi…
More on Secular Stagnation
Here is the link to a piece I wrote for the Globe re a new eBook on secular stagnation. I am struck by the fact that several eminently mainstream economists…
Is Andrea’s Day Of Reckoning Drawing Nigh?
Andrea Horwath, the current leader of the Ontario NDP, about whom I have written the odd past post, may indeed soon be facing the consequences of her recent decision to…
Dipper Drift?
http://news.nationalpost.com/ In yesterday’s Toronto Star, Chantal Hebert suggested that, if recent events in Ontario are an indication of the party’s future, the NDP may be drifting back to
Publicity 101: Make each announcement different.
Ontario Infrastructure Minister Brad Duguid must have missed the class on publicity that said change the story line when you make the same announcement for the third time. He got…
Scottish Independence: The Triumph of Hope Over Fear
With less than two weeks to go before the Scottish independence referendum a new poll has shown the YES side ahead for the first time. Some 51% of those who…
thank you, charley richardson! your legacy lives on
On Labour Day, I happened to see this on Twitter: I am on my union’s labour-management committee, the group that meets monthly with management to discuss members’ concerns and try…
Boring Jim Prentice might be what the Tories need
TweetLow turnout, lack of interest overshadows Prentice’s win The atmosphere was noticeably subdued as I walked into the large hall at Northlands Expo Centre that hosted the Progressive Conservative’s leadership…
Obama’s Estonia claim that ‘Russia trying to reclaim lands lost in the 19th century’ funny and wrong
Since the crisis in Ukraine made the headlines Russia has been cast as the villain with predictable stereotypes and misconceptions about things Russian showing up on MSM. From a Russian…
Prentice in a walk – but the low voter turnout tells the real story about the fate of the Alberta Progressive Conservatives
This file photo, almost as boring as Jim Prentice’s speech to the troops in Edmonton tonight, and I have it on good authority it was pretty darned boring, will be…
Guest post – I WILL HOLD THE LINE
This guest post is from a Victoria teacher explaining to her colleagues why she is willing to hold the line in our strike. --- Hi. My name is Dana Bjornson.…
Guest post – I WILL HOLD THE LINE
This guest post is from a Victoria teacher explaining to her colleagues why she is willing to hold the line in our strike. —Hi. My name is Dana Bjornson. I’ve…
Guest post – I WILL HOLD THE LINE
This guest post is from a Victoria teacher explaining to her colleagues why she is willing to hold the line in our strike. ---Hi. My name is Dana Bjornson. I’ve…
Guest post – I WILL HOLD THE LINE
This guest post is from a Victoria teacher explaining to her colleagues why she is willing to hold the line in our strike. —Hi. My name is Dana Bjornson. I’ve…
Saturday Photo: When the Uncovered Past Does Not Linger
As I’ve mentioned here before, one of the summer’s highlights was our trip to the Roman town of Coninbriga, not far from Coimbra in Portugal. The site was a going…
My sister in Mauchenheim
a bit of personal history from my mother’s side. Filed under: art
Southern Ontario Skins: A Cast of Stooges Part X
While the lead writer of the ARC Collective is planning on taking a hiatus for a month or so to recharge the batteries on a beach somewhere in Baja soon,…
Sept. 6: Let’s forget the Irving press for a bit…
…there’s nothing in it anyway. But something happened yesterday that can only be understood with a lot of history. While suffering the boredom forced on us seniors by exercise instructors…
Sadly, Tying Property Taxes To Inflation Is Progress
Earlier in the Mayoral campaign, with the unsurprising exception of Ford, the other four (then) "major" candidates (Chow, Stintz, Tory, Soknacki) solidified their positions on property taxes around a general…