What Climate Change?
Don Maroc We probably didn’t notice, during the years George W. Bush and his Flat Earth gang tried to rule the world from the Washington, D.C., beltway, how we slowly…
2014
Duffy’s Shadow Looms Over Harper’s Future
We won’t have long to wait for the release of the tell-all book on Mike Duffy, penned by his old journalism colleague, Dan Leger. The book, Duffy: Stardom to Senate…
open letter to Terra Turtle on her run for mayor of Sudbury
There is a turtle running for mayor of Sudbury, and she’s been reaching out to the local community for ideas. I started to write the following as a comment on…
Staples Redux: Wheat and Canola
Acceptance or rejection of genetically modified food has tended to be analyzed with respect to the attitudes of consumers. But the attitudes of producers matter. For example, western grain farmers…
Ukraine Predictions: A Breakup, of sorts
Plea from Ukraine My earlier post showed some interesting maps of the ethnic and language divisions inside the Ukraine, and asked whether a split into two parts was going to…
The Cult of Living Large
2015, we’re told, is the year the developed world (that’s us) and the emerging economies (China, India, etc., etc., etc.) will close ranks to formulate an effective plan of action…
The Analytical Engine
March is women’s history month. I am talking about some of the women who have inspired me. Today’s awesome woman is Ada Lovelace. You may know her as Lord Byron’s…
Canada Moving Toward US Style Partisan Administered Elections
I am by no means well read on the nitty gritty of Canadian federal elections, but this strikes me as an incredibly bad idea: says Section 44 of the government’s…
Canada Moving Toward US Style Partisan Administered Elections
I am by no means well read on the nitty gritty of Canadian federal elections, but this strikes me as an incredibly bad idea: says Section 44 of the government’s…
Canada Moving Toward US Style Partisan Administered Elections
I am by no means well read on the nitty gritty of Canadian federal elections, but this strikes me as an incredibly bad idea: says Section 44 of the government’s…
Rex Murphy: We All Know You Are A Tory Hack …
… now just shut up about it and let the grownups talk, please. Talk about pathetic. In a previous column, Murphy was emphatic about how he speaks to his own…
Trudeau chooses vanity over democracy
Justin Trudeau has abandoned his promise to upgrade our primitive voting system, First-Past-the-Post, with ranked ballot voting — which Liberal party members supported by 70% at their 2012 convention. Instead,…
March 2:: I was afraid this would happen – we now have only one more (stupid) step to go.
For all the self-righteous speeches we have heard, almost all have been lies. The US is NOT supporting a people struggling for freedom. It is supporting a group of rebels…
Canada Moving Toward US Style Partisan Administered Elections
I am by no means well read on the nitty gritty of Canadian federal elections, but this strikes me as an incredibly bad idea: says Section 44 of the government’s…
New Movie: Son of God
A new trend in Hollywood? Could be given the popularity of the movie Son of God, a bible-themed movie about the life of Jesus. Mega-churches are helping to spread the…
Thought Experiment: provincial vs federal votes
In 2011, we had a Federal and Provincial election, here in Ontario, within 6 months of one another. In the Provincial election, we had the following results:1,625,102 – OLP (vote…
Sunday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your weekend. – Nick Kristof writes that the growing gap in income reflects a similarly growing gap in social perception – and that there’s plenty of…
The poverty of Ontario’s political parties.
What we have in Ontario today are three political parties that have moved to the right of the political spectrum. They will all tell you that there is no meaning…
The Little Station That Could
Living as I do close to both Toronto and Hamilton, it is my practice at 6:00 P.M. each evening to flip back and forth between Hamilton’s independent station, CHCH, and…
Under The Bus
Andrew Coyne writes that there is a distinct difference between conservatives and Conservatives. That difference was on display at this weekend’s Manning Conference: The Conservative party is supposed to be…