KCCCC day 24: the strategists strategize
A nice young fellow from iPolitics got in touch with me this week. Some of my friends in other parties, too: Robin Sears, Will Stewart and Tim Powers. We were…
August 2015
No entertainment value whatsoever
I’m testing something out here at the centre of the universe, so while I wait to see if that’s been successful, here’s a little story for you: Penguin’s car breaks…
British Columbians Say It’s Time to "Heave Steve"
The headline in the paper’s largest newspaper, The Vancouver Sun, says it all – B.C. Voters planning to push Harper’s Tories Out of Office. The new Insights West online survey…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Downed cats.
Conservatives Have a Big Decision in this Election. What’ll It Be – Canada or Harper?
I backed into what became an argument today with an old friend and I did not feel very good about it at all. We both knew Duffy way back when…
The Duffy Trial Adjourns But a New Poll Shows it Has Hurt Stephen Harper
The Duffy trial has adjourned and won't get going again until after the election.So you might think that Stephen Harper would be letting out a giant sigh of relief.But sadly…
Robert Jago Soldiers On
I think Robert and I were the first two bloggers in Canadian history to force a candidate to step down for things they’d said on the Internet. But in ’08…
August 24: An apology…
I missed yesterday’s blog because life became chaotic for the day. I didn’t need the world’s chaos to add to it. Luckily, I found only one column in the August…
About That Beach In Verdun
While not an entirely new idea, the concept of a beach in Verdun in it’s current form was given impetus by Projet Montreal in 2009. I didn’t like the idea…
About That Beach In Verdun
While not an entirely new idea, the concept of a beach in Verdun in it’s current form was given impetus by Projet Montreal in 2009. I didn’t like the idea…
Lessons learned
As I noted here, it’s well worth comparing what’s happening in any given election to any recent precedents. While past performance never guarantees future results, we can tell both what…
Another "Dog (Ate My Homework) Day" Wraps Up Duffy Trial, For Now.
The Duffy trial is adjourned until 18 November. Don Bayne finished mauling Chris Woodcock, Harper’s former PMO director of issues management with yet another fitting bit of the, now almost…
Ashley Madison’s misguided attempts to put the genie back in the bottle
Ashley Madison’s use of DMCA takedown notices to social media platforms in an attempt to stop the dissemination of the site users’ hacked personal information “may violate the DMCA itself,”…
Chicken Harper and the Con’s New Campaign Song
Well as you know Chicken Harper has changed his tune or his feathers. Now he isn't going around claiming people should vote for him because only he can save us…
The edible helium balloon!
I don’t have an actual bucket list, but if I did, inhaling helium would have been on it. I finally got my chance to do it a couple of weeks…
CMHR: The Unbearable Lightness of Inclusion
Graphic by Krishna Lalbihaire. Few buildings in Winnipeg, or Canada, have been as contested prior to their construction, let alone their opening, as the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. Plagued…
Sentencing sexual offences against children
R. v. S.N., 2015 NUCJ 25: As outlined by this Court in DeJaeger, at paragraphs 173 and 174, Nunavut leads the country in its per capita rate of sexual offences…
Technology & Teamwork Can Ease Transition for Kids With Disabilities
For most, high school graduation is a happy and hopeful celebration as parents launch their children into a successful, independent life. But there’s an expression that parents of children with…