Jim Prentice: A Risk Adverse Banker Meets the Black Swan
Two energy company executives made a wager. The one who bet that Jim Prentice would never give up $3 million a year in exchange for power lost. True story. Mr…
2014
Hashtag hypocrisy: #on the other hand my husband orders drone strikes that have killed hundreds of kids
The kidnapping of the Nigerian schoolgirls by Jama’atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’awati Wal-Jihad, also known by the Hausa name Boko Haram, happened over a month ago. By now a percentage of…
Song arrangements for CPLUG
I have arranged several songs for our local ukulele group (CPLUG – the Collingwood Public Library Ukulele Group) over the recent months, and put them online for our members and…
What is the GTA?
No Teddy update of the prediction this week; as polls are just as wild as before, and thus, not much has changed. Rather, an answer to a discussion that came…
This is why we can’t permit another abortion law in this country
Because when politicians get the chance, they will spend endless time passing more and more ridiculous and picayune anti-choice laws.Like this one in Missouri last week: requiring a woman to…
Ontario election: Shades of the 2015 Harper-Trudeau battle?
When it comes to elections in Canada, with its relatively low voting rates, age matters. Older folks vote with their feet, all the way to the polling stations, while younger…
Three more PC MLAs throw their support behind Jim Prentice
TweetBy: Scooter M. Rock Political reporter with the Calgary Gazette Tribune: CALGARY- More than twenty MLAs have now pledged their support to former federal cabinet minister Jim Prentice’s campaign to…
Fun for the weekend
From io9 – This animated short is the best 10-second adventure you’ll take today:
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – The Globe and Mail joins the chorus calling for Canada to welcome more citizens, rather than exploiting cheap and disposable workers. But…
Voter and Campaign-Worker Fatigue
We’re in the midst of a general election here in Ontario. Election Day is June 12, 2014. Two ridings in Toronto, Trinity—Spadina and Scarborough—Agincourt, are also in the midst of…
Presentation to Etobicoke York Community Council
Update: I am re-posting this entry as some residents of Parkdale-High Park may visit this blog to find these submissions. Development in the riding is an issue for many and…
Presentation to Etobicoke York Community Council
Update: I am re-posting this entry as some residents of Parkdale-High Park may visit this blog to find these submissions. Development in the riding is an issue for many and…
The Common Sense Revolution Redux ( A.K.A. Tiny Tim Roars)
H/t Theo Moudakis If you have resided in Ontario for some years, and were of a certain age when Ontario’s Common Sense Revolution was conducted by Mike ‘The Knife’ Harris,…
Wynne Liberal party: not progressive, not even liberal
The Ontario Liberals are trying to pawn themselves off as the “real” progressive party this election. Of course, so far they have yet to deliver on anything but empty and…