Gearing up for another Calgary-Foothills By-Election
Voters in Calgary-Foothills will face their third election in less than a year when a by-election is called to replace Jim Prentice in the next few months. I’ve created a…
July 2015
Joseph Stiglitz: how I would vote in the Greek referendum
Photo by SpaceShoe The rising crescendo of bickering and acrimony within Europe might seem to outsiders to be the inevitable result of the bitter endgame playing out between Greece and…
Some Times Things Go Really Wrong. Some Times They Go Really Right.
It’s about the worst thing you’ll ever hear on a cockpit voice recorder – the pilot saying, “Wow, pulled back the wrong throttle,” seconds before the passenger plane falls out…
Goodbye, for now
I’m minutes away from leaving Toronto, and wanted to make one last goodbye post. It may be my last post until August, or even September. A few things to keep…
Maybe That’s Why It Was Buy First, Fly Later.
Lockheed’s F-35 joint strike fighter is one for the books. In fact there’ll be several books written examining how it was conceived, developed, built and sold and they’ll be studied…
Socialist barbarians at the gate of Fortress Liberal
Quote: Jennifer Hollett, the former MuchMusic VJ and now digital strategist, and Linda McQuaig, journalist and author, are the NDP candidates in the two federal ridings located in the heart…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Thursday, July 2, 2015
Your news links for today: Access Copyright’s Post-Secondary Tariff – The Glacier is Starting to Melt at the Copyright Board – EXCESS COPYRIGHT Industry Canada Transparency Report Guidelines Intensely Problematic…
Vancouver man raising a stink about dog waste going into landfill
Dedicated bins like those in Pacific Spirit Regional Park urged Doo’s & don’ts: By Cheryl Chan, The ProvinceJuly 1, 2015 Raymond Greenwood is hounding the city to fix a crappy…
New column day
Here, following up on these posts about the possibility the Cons might decide to ignore their own fixed election date and delay the election expected for October 19. For further…
July 2: this will probably be a short blog because…
…I have to be at the shore at noon, sitting on a bluff overlooking either the salt water (if the tide’s in) or the sandbars (if it’s out) while I…
Minimum Wage and the Laughable National Post. . .
The National Post Editorial of June 30th which argues that the performance of Rachel Notley in Alberta is a good reason not to vote for the NDP in October is…
Shaming Those Who Deserve It
Many of them probably sleep quite well at night in the belief that their unethical, criminal behaviour is likely never to see the light of day, and even if it…
Another Way to Deal with Butts
Cigarette butts are usually aren’t disposed of properly (why do smokers think it’s OK to litter?) and this is a problem for many cities. Earlier this year we looked at…
Alone At Last
http://www.quickmeme.com/ Stephen Harper’s allies are abandoning him. At last count, 46 of the 166 Conservatives who rode into Ottawa in 2011 have left the Harper stable. Andrew Coyne writes: It…
‘Times Have Changed’ at 40 Wellesley St.E. #HIVnow
The latest ambitious awareness campaign by the AIDS Committee of Toronto (ACT), #HIVnow, “asks big questions, puts forward honest answers and issues clear calls to action”. The “Times have changed”…
Excuse Me Mr. Mulcair. Kyoto, Really? Is That Your Final Answer?
The story of how Thomas Mulcair was going to run for Harper’s Conservatives has resurfaced, leaving the NDP leader with no choice but to answer for his actions. Instead of…
Outsiders need not apply.
If there was ever a closed shop in Ontario, it is that bunch of bozos ruling the roost down at the Ontario Legislature today. As an insider in all of…
Stephen Harper and the Creeping Militarization of Canada
In my last post I showed you yet another example of how Stephen Harper is trying to militarize our culture.By having such gentle and iconic Canadian traditions like the RCMP…
The Great War and Newfoundland Political Memory #nlpoli
“It is sobering to think,” historian Sean Cadigan wrote in the Telegram on Tuesday, “that the memory of the casualties of war has been used partially for later political purposes…