The sad irony is that I posted Josh Whedon’s observation about Twitter on Twitter
To wit: “The real issue is me. Twitter is an addictive little thing, and if it’s there, I gotta check it. When you keep doing something after it stops giving…
May 2015
The Sweet Taste Of Freedom
Watching Omar Khadr’s media scrum last night, it became obvious why the Harper regime fought so hard, first, to deny media access to him while he was in prison, and…
Can She Stay In The Driver’s Seat?
http://www.kimberry.com/ Jim Prentice, the turn around and he’s gone premier of Alberta, used to be a member of The Trilateral Commission. Michael Harris reminds his readers that the commission is:…
Do Ontario Tories need a leader?
The Ontario Progressive Conservative Party will announce its new leader tomorrow. Will anyone care? Is it going to make a difference? With three years to go before an election in…
Stephen Harper and the Desperate Days of Total Disaster
I have no idea where Stephen Harper is or what he's doing. He hasn't tweeted a word for 48 hours. His squawking Twitter site has suddenly gone silentBut I bet…
Flawed analysis
Following the passing of Alberta’s Conservative party, Macleans writer Colby Cosh described a drawn-out illness that made the result inevitable. Followers of British Columbia politics will recognize symptoms also found…
Trends: corpse kicking after a lost decade of delusion #nlpoli
Don Mills is the latest fan of the provincial Conservatives to turn on them savagely. The St. John’s Board of Trade had Don back to deliver a luncheon speech this…
It’s still hard to believe the NDP won Alberta’s election
Two days later it is still hard to believe. The New Democratic Party won an election in Alberta? The NDP won a majority government in Alberta? Rachel Notley is the…
Tune up this spring with something new … Alberta’s PCs can find renewal and purpose as something completely different!
PHOTOS: UFA fuel stations today dot Alberta, giving hope to the remnants of the once mighty PC Party’s membership, who could transform the former political entity into something like this.…
It Couldn’t Be Clearer but Nobody in Ottawa is Listening – Running Out the Clock
Okay, I agree – the science isn’t in. Not all of it anyway. There’s more coming in almost daily – research, studies, experiments, observations and analyses, projections – there’s a…
Outdoor Staircases in Montreal
These exterior staircases make a street dance, there are visual rhythms along otherwise dull avenues, there is an interaction amongst neighbors that wouldn’t happen with interior staircases, all part of…
On private choices
Among the other noteworthy impacts of Rachel Notley’s resounding election victory, right-wing governments elsewhere can no longer point to Alberta as the worst offender when it comes to breaking down…
Let’s Call It "Differential Migration"
If you want to see what climate change looks like, venture no further than the beaches of southern California. There you’ll find hundreds of starving and dead seal and sea…
Thrown Under the Omnibus: C-51 the Latest in Harper’s Barrage of Sprawling, Undemocratic Bills
In 1982, an omnibus bill proposed by the Pierre Trudeau government provoked such indignation in parliamentarians that the official opposition whip refused to show up in the House of Commons.…
Saving the Link: what we’ve accomplished so far, and where we’re headed
Yesterday the Save the Link network launched, to great success. The global network has been months in the making, and aims to bring together civil society organizations, web businesses, and…
Cameron Stages an Upset?
The New York Times and Foreign Policy are reporting that exit polls indicate a surprise surge in support for Conservative prime minister David Cameron, a.k.a. “Captain Austerity.” CBC News reports…
The Freedom of Omar Khadr and the Shame of the Con Regime
I wrote my first post on Omar Khadr eight years ago, and called it The Guantanamo Kid and Canada's Shame.And nothing that has happened since has ever changed my view.…