A Safe Bet
Mother Jones predicts that the next episode of Cosmos will inflame the climate-change deniers. I think that is a safe bet: Recommend this Post
2014
Liberals and Toronto Star colluding together?
I was impressed with Kathleen Wynne a couple days ago when she apparently stood up for our democracy and the constitution by refusing to rule out a coalition with the…
Poll Alert! New EKOS on Monday
@Bigcitylib2 monday, and for all the poll needy we are going to be doing a rollin poll fairly soon so numbers every day!— Frank Graves (@VoiceOfFranky) May 31, 2014
Wynne campaign officially jumps the shark
It’s okay if I do it. But not if you do it. Understand? Me neither. .
Progressives simply cannot trust populist Andrea Horwath to stop Tim Hudak
Ontario PC Leader Tim Hudak has screwed up his election campaign, perhaps beyond repair, with his faulty math and his slick and untrustworthy salesman routine. I said at the start…
Why I’m on the picket line
I will never forget my first days teaching in a public school in British Columbia. It was 2004, and I had just left a job at a small private girl’s…
X Ethical Oil SpokesThing Running For Tim Hudak
Jamie Ellerton, his name is, and he’s running down in Parkdale High-Park. Click through link below for more on him: @SunNewsNetwork @JEllerton The old ED for @Ethical_Oil is running for…
The Goddess of Democracy Would be 25 Years Old
I had so much hope for China in 1989. Oh well, at least I got an iPhone.
Advance polling in Ontario opens today – please #voteon
By now, most people in Ontario will have gotten their voting cards, or will shortly. If you live in Ontario, regardless of who you support, I encourage you to go…
Non est factum
Justice Cartwright described non est factum in Marvco Colour Research Ltd. v. Harris 2 SCR 774: "(W)here a document was executed as a result of a misrepresentation as to its…
Harper Describes Himself
One of the more ludicrous things the Harper Government has been pursuing is creating a “monument to the victims of communism”. A more cold-war propaganda-esque move is almost unimaginable. But,…
Wynne strategy: campaign left, govern right
One of the prominent Toronto Star talking points is that Andrea Horwath rejected the “most progressive budget in 20 years.” Of course, they leave out the fact that Wynne ditched…
Adam Goldenberg reminds me a little of the neo-Nazis I used to interview
They dressed up bigotry and hate with lots of fancy words, as I recall. But it was still bigotry and hate. Ignatieff’s one-time speechwriter isn’t in any way a far-Right…
Horwath harms herself, helps Hudak.
Ontario provincial New Democratic Leader Andrea Horwath is on a slippery slope and she keeps trying to increase speed. By next Tuesday’s leaders’ debate on provincial television networks, she should…
Ipsos says Tim Hudak is the guy with the best shot at winning the election
So, here’s what you should know about Ipsos’ ability to win the election-prediction sweepstakes. Forum, Ekos, et al.: don’t trust IVR. .
And then there were three (white men)
TweetAs the deadline for candidates to enter their names (and $50,000 fee) in the contest to become the next leader of Alberta’s Progressive Conservative Association came to a close yesterday,…
Why Ontario NDP platform is left of Liberal platform
The Toronto Star has pulled out all the stops this election trying to secure a majority for Kathleen Wynne. Like the Toronto Sun, they believe the purpose of the fourth…
Permanent Protest Set Up at US Oil Sands Project in Utah
The first tar sands strip mining project in the U.S. is gearing up to start operation in Utah, but not without resistance from a group that announced on May 29…
Sometimes You Just Have To Hold Your Nose
It would never occur to me to withhold my vote in any election. Yet the one occurring in Ontario on June 12 is particularly striking in its paucity of real…
Occupiers Not Reformers
Andrew Coyne is no fan of the CBC’s — even though he appears regularly on the public broadcaster’s At Issues panel: As I’ve noted on other occasions, whatever once may…