Change Is In The Air
http://www.threehundredeight.com/ The Harperites won both by-elections yesterday. But it’s instructive to focus on the number of eligible voters who tramped to the polls. In Oshawa-Whity, only 30% of those who…
http://www.threehundredeight.com/ The Harperites won both by-elections yesterday. But it’s instructive to focus on the number of eligible voters who tramped to the polls. In Oshawa-Whity, only 30% of those who…
Conservative folks are sounding pretty cocky, this morning, but they shouldn’t be. They are, after all, the folks who: Saw a two-term Whitby mayor in a tough fight with a…
It is a tough job. When you have to have two speeches ready, you are likely to have to use the losing one. Writers hate them and politicians hate them.…
From Gatsby, natch. Less figuratively, I have been told it will be “very, very vigorous” in my case. Literally, I welcome that.
When I first heard the rumours that Stephen Harper was about to go for a walk in the snow. Or whatever. And announce that he planned to step down in…
A post last week offered a quick confirmation that, as finance minister Ross Wiseman said, provincial government spending accounts for about 30% of the gross domestic product measured as spending.…
In its coverage of a video that purported to show a Syrian boy braving sniper fire in the course of rescuing a young girl, the Daily Mail lauded the spectacle…
TweetEvery year, political watchers gather at the Alberta Legislature for the pomp and circumstance of the Speech from the Throne, hoping to get a glimpse of a political agenda. And…
Dear Janet Fraser, First of all, let me start by congratulating you on your school board election victory this past Saturday. I voted for you enthusiastically, as I did your…
Documents obtained by Greenpeace detail a desperate astroturf PR strategy designed by Edelman for TransCanada to win public support for its Energy East tar sands export pipeline. TransCanada has failed…
Documents obtained by Greenpeace detail a desperate astroturf PR strategy designed by Edelman for TransCanada to win public support for its Energy East tar sands export pipeline. TransCanada has failed…
Documents obtained by Greenpeace detail a desperate astroturf PR strategy designed by Edelman for TransCanada to win public support for its Energy East tar sands export pipeline. TransCanada has failed…
Are you bored yet? Alberta’s PC’s aren’t going to be happy till you feel like this fellow. Below: Alberta Lieutenant-Governor Donald Ethell (Government of Alberta); Premier Jim Prentice (CBC). Welcome…
And then #TheTeen saunters in to the room with his hands jammed down his pockets and a scowl on his face in the best inadvertent impression of Reggie Mantle I’ve…
1298417Ontario Ltd. v. Lakeshore (Town), 2014 ONCA 802: In RBC Dominion Securities Inc. v. Merrill Lynch Canada Inc., 2008 SCC 54, 3 S.C.R. 79, at paras. 63-64, Abella J. (dissenting…
Official recognition that a Canadian species is in trouble is no guarantee that the slide towards extinction can be slowed or halted, a new study has found. A paper by…
Official recognition that a Canadian species is in trouble is no guarantee that the slide towards extinction can be slowed or halted, a new study has found. A paper by…
A large employer organization in Australia wants government to subsidize businesses crippled by large price increases for natural gas. Ai Group says governments have to moderate the consequences of decisions…
I have an elegant solution to mass marketing calls from outside Canada: block them using known technology.
I mean we don't like to brag, but… Article by Peter Nowak for the Daily Dot There’s something very Canadian about Barack Obama’s firm stance on net neutrality. read more