Cost of Great Lakes Plastic Clean-Up Could Top $486 Million
SHOULD THE FINANCIAL BURDEN of removing all plastic debris from the Great Lakes fall on the shoulders of the 36 million people within the basin, researchers now have an estimate…
April 2015
Wynne’s budget: two linkless points
There’s not much controversy surrounding it, at all, because: She said, if elected, she’d invest in transit and infrastructure, and this budget is aimed at giving effect to that; and…
The Debate – Teddy’s view
I made a point of not watching the debate, but rather, watching the reaction to it, live, on twitter and elsewhere. Doing so allowed me to see a few things…
Could Rachel Notley’s NDP be heading to shocking win in Alberta?
I watched last night’s superb debate between Alberta provincial leaders. Yes, Alberta politics has become spell-binding for political junkies this election. Yes, NDP Leader Rachel Notley was amazing and PC…
Reading Some Context for the Armenian Genocide
Today marks the 100th anniversary of the massacre of hundreds of thousands of Armenians by Turks, as the Ottoman Empire entered its death throes. There are a number of articles…
Guest Blog by Leanne Bourassa: 1st Year Reflections as Liberal Party Membership Secretary
(I had the pleasure of getting to meet and know Leanne at the Feb 2014 Liberal Convention in Montreal. We had been vaguely aware of each other before through blog…
A Cudgel Resurrected
To the red-meat crowd (a.k.a. the Harper base et alia), few things can seem more gratifying than an attack on unions. Viewed as the enemy of all that is good…
And The Children Will Lead Us
The wolf will live with the lamb, the leopard will lie down with the goat, the calf and the lion and the yearling together; and a little child will lead…
The case of Oskar Groening
“The capacity of the gas chambers and the capacity of the crematoria were quite limited. Someone said that 5,000 people were processed in 24 hours but I didn’t verify this.…
Stephen Harper and the New Happy Harperland
It's been a cold miserable spring that feels more like fall. After the winter from hell. And it is Harperland. Where a depraved would be dictator is trying to buy…
You know things are going badly when… #nlpoli
… you launch your election campaign at at huge fundraiser and your signature policy announce gets slaughtered on Twitter within seconds of the words leaving your lips. Yes, friends, Paul…
Tech on the Side: Skeumorphism and round smartwatches
It appears as if Samsung's next smartwatch is going to follow the Moto 360 in having a round face. This is an examples of short term thinking and skeumorphism gone…
Tech on the Side: Skeumorphism and round smartwatches
It appears as if Samsung’s next smartwatch is going to follow the Moto 360 in having a round face. This is an examples of short term thinking and skeumorphism gone…
Tech on the Side: Skeumorphism and round smartwatches
It appears as if Samsung's next smartwatch is going to follow the Moto 360 in having a round face. This is an examples of short term thinking and skeumorphism gone…
Tech on the Side: Skeumorphism and round smartwatches
It appears as if Samsung’s next smartwatch is going to follow the Moto 360 in having a round face. This is an examples of short term thinking and skeumorphism gone…
How to lose an election
Alberta’s election continues to be far more entertaining than the one here in the UK. Amid his party’s plummeting polling numbers, Progressive Conservative Premier Jim Prentice needed to re-connect with…