One Family Grows 6,000 lbs of Food On Their City Lot
If these folks can produce this amount of food on a 4000 square foot lot 15 minutes from downtown Los Angeles, what’s stopping the rest of us? This is inspiring!…
September 2015
Trusted editorial content may not be trusted
Postmedia is a company in trouble. It cannot sustain crippling debt to American debt holders with revenues from traditional advertising, circulation and digital paywalls. One of its responses is Postmedia…
White is the new black #nlpoli
2002. Stephen Harper said that his party had a program that would help change the dependence in Atlantic Canada on government spending, a dependence that had led to what he…
NDP should amend more than just timelines for Alberta’s next electoral map
Alberta’s Chief Electoral Officer Glen Resler spoke to the Standing Committee on Legislative Offices on September 24, 2015 about legislated timelines that require an Electoral Boundaries Commission be appointed to…
Will Chuck, Chuck, Chuck, Chuck, Chuck sink Carly Fiorina’s presidential bid?
In one of the better US TV shows, Meet the Press, Carly Fiorina was pressed on whether she lied in the recent Republican debate about seeing a video of a…
CBC plan to sell off buildings part of Harper’s diabolical privatization agenda
The CBC’s just-revealed plan to sell buildings, including major production facilities in Toronto and Montreal, is part of Stephen Harper’s diabolical privatization agenda. It’s the culmination of his personal, ideology-driven…
Will Mulcair look left and Harper’s eyebrows not move in Monday’s debate?
An expert in body language viewed the French language debate and Christine Gagnon had this to say about Tom (Thomas?) Mulcair’s body gestures: Watch for Mulcair to repeat these gestures…
A Pop Quiz for Canadian Citizens
Lost in the hoopla over whether Ms Ishaq can take the Oath of Citizenship while wearing a niqab is the fact that she actually passed the citizenship test. Which made…
Playing the Security Card
The Conservatives are trying to make security a “ballot box question.” To hear Stephen Harper tell it, there’s a jihadi terrorist lurking in every shadow, ready to pounce on us…
the great weed of 2015?
You will not be surprised to learn that Allan and I own a lot of books. And CDs. And even LPs! Many, many hundreds of each. We have culled our…
PEGIDA Canada: "We’re Not Racists"
When one is challenging groups such as PEGIDA Canada the accusation that the membership and supporters of similar groups hold racist views is countered by the statement that, "Islam is…
A national icon takes his leave
One of the questions I posed in this space a few weeks ago was: who will be the next big-name Jewish MP? With apologies to Joe Oliver, Canada’s first Jewish…
David Schindler: Canada Spending its Way into Dangerous Water Debt
It’s no surprise, after California’s five-year drought that is now creeping northwards, experts have water on the mind. The drought-plagued forests that burned across the continent this summer offered a…
David Schindler: Canada Spending its Way into Dangerous Water Debt
It’s no surprise, after California’s five-year drought that is now creeping northwards, experts have water on the mind. The drought-plagued forests that burned across the continent this summer offered a…
Has Harper given up his “right not to resign”?
“I will resign …” It seems that the Governor General has gone on record as saying that the “basic principles” of Canadian constitutional law and conventions starts with a simple…
On game theories
Paul Dechene’s riff off of this post is definitely worth a read. But while we’re largely in agreement on the significance of polls, I will challenge his wider view as…
what i’m reading: the doubt factory, a young-adult thriller by paolo bacigalupi
A thriller about public relations? And for teens? It sounds improbable, and The Doubt Factory by Paolo Bacigalupi is an improbably terrific book. Marrying a somersaulting plot with heart-pounding suspense…
Trudeau Vs. Suzuki: A Brief Note
During the course of a campaign, its always good to prove your center right creds by kicking a few hippies https://t.co/Wdw5WNH7Ts — Bigcitylib (@Bigcitylib2) September 27, 2015