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)…
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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…
New Brunswick frozen in time
We will have more to say later, as will everyone, as counting has been frozen in the province. I decided to take the frozen results and map them, as well…
A tweet about New Brunswick’s election
…offered here with tremendous respect and affection.
In Tuesday’s Sun: warm, with a chance of scattered extinction
Media expert on climate change, I am not. You want columnist climate connoisseur? Go read Lorrie Goldstein or Ezra Levant. “Humanity’s burning of fossil fuels is having a warming effect…
Trouble getting SRBP? #nlpoli
Some people have been reporting problems getting SRBP through their Internet service provider or IT support team. It isn’t clear what’s going on, but one of the problems seems to…
exploring the possibility of taking the bus
It is World Car Free Day, and city transit was free today – for those who have vouchers they downloaded and printed or picked up at the one of the…
Someone save me from another NHL season.
So here I am, basking in the late September sunshine, relishing a 27C day. That can only mean one thing — it’s hockey season! Oh God, no! Didn’t it just…