The Buy Now Pay Later Approach to Public Policy
As Canadians we are used to personal debt. Debt has become the new normal. So when Justin Trudeau says that his government plans to spend more than what it will…
September 2015
The Buy Now Pay Later Approach to Public Policy
As Canadians we are used to personal debt. Debt has become the new normal. So when Justin Trudeau says that his government plans to spend more than what it will…
The Buy Now Pay Later Approach to Public Policy
As Canadians we are used to personal debt. Debt has become the new normal. So when Justin Trudeau says that his government plans to spend more than what it will…
The Buy Now Pay Later Approach to Public Policy
As Canadians we are used to personal debt. Debt has become the new normal. So when Justin Trudeau says that his government plans to spend more than what it will…
How To Stop Stephen Harper From Stealing the Election
There are now only twenty-seven days to go before the election that will determine the fate of this country. Less than four weeks before we find out whether it will…
Ottawa’s war on data
Macleans recently published an article outlining the failure of the Harper regime to not only collect information on the true state of Canada’s citys, towns and villages and economy but…
Hey Canada, Step Into the 21st Century: Stop Outsourcing Governance of the Nation
I get the Empire Loyalist thing. The way we go about running our society is firmly anchored in our colonial past. Canada is a proud member of the British Empire.…
Hey Canada, Step Into the 21st Century: Stop Outsourcing Governance of the Nation
I get the Empire Loyalist thing. The way we go about running our society is firmly anchored in our colonial past. Canada is a proud member of the British Empire.…
Hey Canada, Step Into the 21st Century: Stop Outsourcing Governance of the Nation
I get the Empire Loyalist thing. The way we go about running our society is firmly anchored in our colonial past. Canada is a proud member of the British Empire.…
Yet More Evidence That Corporations Can’t Be Trusted
The recent VW announcement concerning their emissions omissions remind us that too much faith is placed in the hands of a few people that don’t care about the vast majority…
How To Vote Harper Out
Another winner from the National Observer. They review the basics of what we in the progressive universe of Canada (ie. the vast majority of voters) can do to get Harper…
Three things about Hurricane Igor #nlpoli
hard to believe but it has been five years since Hurricane Igor ripped through Placentia Bay and into Trinity Bay. What stands out most about those events today is the…
Are the Harper Con Artists Faking Their Propaganda?
I'm sure many of you have seen this great sign carved into a field in Buford, Ontario, by a good Canadian to make it absolutely clear what he thinks of…
What’s next? F-35 boondoggle to land on the deck of a Canadian Mistral carrier?
PHOTOS: The F-35, possibly the worst military aircraft ever made, dollar for dollar or pound for pound, photographed to make it look less like a brick. A hovering version of…
Mulcair to Spend More Than Harper on Veterans.
My stomach churned a little bit when I saw the photo of Tommy with some old, bemedalled vets rolling out his platform of hundreds of millions more in funding for…
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Of the Law Societies of Upper Canada and Nunavut
Relief from Forfeiture
Dube v. RBC Life Insurance Company, 2015 ONCA 641: Thus the central issue on the motion was whether Dube was entitled to relief from forfeiture under s. 98 of the…
Harper’s “old stock Canadians” line is downright racist and xenophobic
Did Lynton Crosby, the Australian “master of dog whistle politics”, have anything to do with Stephen Harper’s racist, divisive and xenophobic “old stock Canadians” line? It’s possible. The post Harper’s…
Pirate Party TV Spot
The Pirate Party recently released its campaign ad. In what is probably a unique strategy in this campaign it attacks noone, ignores superficial fluff, and goes in depth into an…
Liberals edge out NDP as most favoured party for the first time
IPSOS poll released today shows that for the first time in this election, Trudeau’s Liberal Party is now favoured by more voters than those thinking of voting for Mulcair’s NDP:…