The Con Oil Pimp Brad Wall Declares War on Central Canada
Oh great. Just what this broken bleeding country needs. Another Con oil pimp like Brad Wall, the Premier of Saskatchewan.Sweeping out of the West to declare war on Central Canada.…
July 2015
Health Canada—another Conservative mouthpiece?
The Conservatives have started early on their advertising campaign for the upcoming election. We are, for example, being told ad nauseam that Justin Trudeau isn’t ready. With their large war…
Who ends up allied with whom in a ‘Pizza Parliament’? It may not be as simple as you think
ILLUSTRATIONS: Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau, left, and Conservative Leader and Prime Minister Stephen Harper, right, get together in a liaison dangereuse … actual Canadian politicians may not behave exactly as…
Dismantling Democracy in Canada
Have to share this. Please share it too. Dismantling Democracy in Canada
The European Union Backstory. Greece Is the Least of Its Problems.
We may be on the verge of witnessing a ground shaking, dangerous and scary spectacle – the dismemberment of the European Union. The recent events in Greece may have set…
Capitalism and Democracy in Greece
There has been no paucity of allusions to Greek tragedy when discussing the current negotiations between Greece and its European creditors: Syriza caught between Scylla of austerity and the Charibdas…
July 17:
Friday, like today (Thursday) will be a busy day for me. So I’m starting this blog this evening – and will finish tomorrow. So the part about what’s in Irving…
Your Ward News Update
I wrote about this back in May. I said: So there’s an T.O. East End Newspaper called Your Ward News. From what I gather its mostly a direct mail affair;…
B.C. to Pay Millions to Subsidize Petronas Climate Pollution Due to Secretive LNG Emissions Loophole
The B.C. government plans to subsidize Malaysian gas giant Petronas to the tune of $16 million, in part due to a promise to exclude a significant chunk of the greenhouse…
Rafe: Trudeau’s misstep on C-51 will help the NDP in federal election
Photo: John McCallum/Flickr We’ve reached the summer doldrums and perhaps that’s a good time to sit back and look at the coming Federal election, if only in general terms. Amazingly,…
Measure the health of Canada’s Internet and… win an awesome gaming rig?
Over the past couple months, our small team at OpenMedia has been helping get the word out on a big project designed to measure the health of Canada’s Internet: CIRA’s…
Big Media Influencing Canadian Election For Political Favoritism
As the debates over the debates has raged on over the past several months, one thing is becoming increasingly clear. Journalists in Canada seem to be throwing out their duty…
Reincarnation as a Consultant or a Psychic?
A wag met Nasrudin. In his pocket he had an egg. “Tell me, Mullah, are you any good at guessing games?” “Not bad,” said Nasrudin. “Very well then: tell…
Victor Hugo’s Hunchback
I have just finished listening to a well-read audio book (in English) of Victor Hugo’s 1831 novel, Hunchback of Notre Dame, or more properly, Notre Dame de Paris, as the…
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? No One, Angela, No One.
Is it the Euro or is it Angela Merkel – or both? Whatever the case, Merkel’s brutal subjugation of Greece has the neighbours outside the Eurozone good cause to think…
It’s Spelled R-E-C-E-S-S-I-O-N
It’s OK to call it as it is when it comes to recession. Ooops … not in Canada.
On Moving
p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; line-height: 120%; }a:link { } It isn’t news to anyone who knows me, but I haven’t mentioned it on this site yet: Very soon, I will…
Beware of Greeks Bearing Gifts
It’s an old adage going back to the legend of the Trojan Horse described by Virgil in the Aeneid. In Latin it’s Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes which translates into…