The Harper Contest Continues
Lots of good observations and suggestions coming in. The above picture of The Blue Meanie was offered by Peter Leslie in the Facebook group Canadians Rallying to Unseat Stephen Harper…
2014
In which I tweet a criticism of tweeting Twitterers (updated)
About 60 per cent of Twitter is scolding. It’s like a giant social media hall monitor, and it’s irritating as Hell. — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) December 31, 2014 UPDATE: A…
2nd openly LGBT Canadian premier on the horizon in 2015
University of Prince Edward Island President Wade MacLauchlan in his Charlottetown office.(Nina Linton For The Globe and Mail) 2015 may also bring a second openly LGBT premier in Canada: Prince…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Alex Himelfarb and Jordan Himelfarb write about the growing appetite for stronger public services and the taxes needed to fund them in 2014…
2014 Year in Review: Photos of All Things Fracking Related
The oil and gas fracking industry continues to change America’s physical and political landscape. Falling oil and gas prices have threatened to stall the industry’s production growth, but for now,…
A Thought For The New Year
http://www.canada.com/ Andrew Coyne ends the year with a surprising — for him — admission. When it comes to a contest of ideas, he writes, the Left is winning: It wasn’t…
Planning for Fortress America.
Watching Tom Clark’s West Block program on Global the other day sent a severe chill up the back. The show had two American guests General David Petraeous, former director of…
Bring on 2015!
Like any year, there were ups and downs over the past 12 months. However, 2014 was unfortunately a bit more about downs, than ups. On the positive side (cuz I…
The Horror of Harperland and the Arrival of Baby Freedom
Gawd. I was planning to go through all the posts I wrote this year, and write something about the deathly year of 2014.So I could warn Baby 2015 what to…
Stakes are high and LNG bet is not safe
Some years ago, Premier Gordon Campbell announced the Gateway Program for improvement of roads and bridges throughout Greater Vancouver. It included a new Fraser River crossing and reconstruction of Highway…
The Legacy of Faulty Assumptions: Hebron Revisited #nlpoli
Hebron is the last of the four, big, offshore discoveries from the 1980s. It’s due to come into production in 2017 based on a development agreement reached initially in 2007…
The last political act of 2014: The Wizard of Ozberta reveals all without even blushing
What was really interesting and possibly unique about the final political act of 2014 here in Ozberta was that it didn’t take Dorothy, Toto and their three metaphorical friends to…
Top 10 moments in Alberta Politics in 2014
TweetIn my nearly ten years writing about politics in Alberta on this blog, 2014 was easily the most exciting. The sheer number of scandals, controversies, fumbles and resignations made for…
On limited victories
Truly, I wish Andrew Coyne’s latest actually described policy-making in Canada, and not merely the state of theoretical political debate. But in fact, we live in a country where “let’s…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Accessorized cats.
Dec. 30+: Lord love a duck….
…the Irving press is still plunging. On p. A1, the big story is a human interest, shed a happy tear story about a South Korean family here in Moncton that…
When History Knocks
Photo by Jonathan McIntosh Naomi Klein is a longtime movement and media icon, a gifted synthesizer and popularizer who, over the past two decades, has been a leading chronicler of…
Hooray! I found the pepper mill!
You can’t know how this brightened my day. I despise how things just disappear, nobody knows where they are, but somebody put it away. Filed under: art
Guest post: Alberta’s NDP can make the Wildrose collapse work for them, but it’ll be hard work
Guest post by John Ashton An awful lot of New Democrats are asking if the Tory tomfoolery with Wildrose MLAs should cause the Alberta NDP faithful to be filled with…