The "creeping cancer" …
A reader’s response to the preceding article is featured here: It’s time to put the fear of consequence back in governance. Since it is obvious that the current checks and…
July 2015
On governing alternatives
As David Climenhaga points out, Brad Wall has positioned himself as the heir to Stephen Harper’s throne as the voice of the anti-democratic corporate elite. But let’s note that Wall…
Elora Festival – Bach B Minor Mass (review)
Friday night at 7:30 the audience was seated in the Gambrel Barn in Elora. Onstage were the Elora Festival Orchestra, Elora Festival Singers, the VOCES8 choir, and Studio de Musique…
Elora Festival – Bach B Minor Mass (review)
Friday night at 7:30 the audience was seated in the Gambrel Barn in Elora. Onstage were the Elora Festival Orchestra, Elora Festival Singers, the VOCES8 choir, and Studio de Musique…
Elora Festival – Bach B Minor Mass (review)
Friday night at 7:30 the audience was seated in the Gambrel Barn in Elora. Onstage were the Elora Festival Orchestra, Elora Festival Singers, the VOCES8 choir, and Studio de Musique…
Elora Festival – Bach B Minor Mass (review)
Friday night at 7:30 the audience was seated in the Gambrel Barn in Elora. Onstage were the Elora Festival Orchestra, Elora Festival Singers, the VOCES8 choir, and Studio de Musique…
Motherboard: The World Online
Check out this map to know how many Internet users there are in each country! In this curious global map, the world is not as it seems. Just take a…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Matthew Brown and Matt Volz report on the latest oil train derailment in North Dakota. Justin Giovannetti discusses how fracking is leading…
Opinion: Will future of food be an election plank?
This piece comes from the Edmonton Journal and applies to all of Western Canada, very much including our Cowichan Valley. We can look back and see significant increases in our…
Kinsella v. Kouvalis: an oldie but goodie
From the archives: Because the media are in the shorthand business – and because social media renders everything bite-sized and/or stupid – some people have taken to comparing me to…
Harperland As Seen By Editorial Cartoonists
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NDP promise to change how we vote.
Ontario voters rejected a scheme for mixed member proportional voting in a 2007 referendum because the political parties wanted to appoint party faithful to the provincial parliament so that they…
Obsessed By His Enemies
http://news.nationalpost.com/ Like Richard Nixon, Stephen Harper is obsessed with his enemies. That’s why, Bob Hepburn writes, he continues to attack Justin Trudeau more than Tom Mulcair. Mulcair may be first…
Stephen Harper and the Great Con War on Pensions and Seniors
I've written a lot of posts about the Stephen Harper and his Great Con War on Pensions and Seniors for a couple of very simple reasons.I like old people, I…
Will the Writ be Dropped Early?
Most elections have been fought over the now-typical five-week period, but the 36 day writ period is merely a convention and we all know how much respect Harper has for…
Stephen Harper and the Growing Anger of Canadians
I don't know why it's taken so long for many Canadians to be angered by Stephen Harper, considering what he has done to Canada.But a new EKOS poll shows that…
A Court Case With Serious Implications For Free Speech
National Post Article Worth keeping an eye on. If law becomes a matter of personal opinion rather than some kind of objective standard we may as well close up shop…
It’s Blogger Leprosy
Write a post about Greece or Harper, the NDP or the F-35, just about anything and readers will post comments. Sometimes just a couple, sometimes a lot. But there’s one…
Missed It Completely. The 2015 State of the States Report.
The United States of America’s Ecological Deficit Day arrived this year with little fanare on July 14th. That is the date on which it is estimated that the Americans have…
Hottest Year Ever? Apparently So.
I know, you folks in the east had a miserable, seemingly endless winter but for the rest of the world it was pretty toasty. In fact 2015 is shaping up…