October 2015
What KIC 8462852 Says About Us
KIC 8462852. Hardly a household name. But it may be, one day soon, or at least when it garners a more prosaic name. It’s a star and it sits rather…
Andrew Nikiforuk’s Latest on the Fracking Craze should be Required Reading for MLAs
This is a guest post by Ben Parfitt, resource policy analyst with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. It orginially appeared on policynote.ca. Well, I won’t back down No, I…
New column day
Here, making the case that Canadians should vote less based on perceptions of momentum (in terms of both policy and political positioning), and more based on where our parties and…
Teenage Head’s Frankie Venom passed away today in 2008
…and my SFH, who are getting together tonight, were the band who backed him the last time he took to a stage. It was at the Festival of Friends, in…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Thursday, October 15, 2015
Your news links for today: Fred Ghahramani, Tech Entrepreneur, Donates $1 Million To Defeat Bill C-51 – Huffington Post Trans-Pacific Partnership text won’t be available before election – CBC News…
If the Green Party Can’t Count on Environmentalists…
What the hell? The CBC reported yesterday that anti-Kinder Morgan pipeline protest uber-group, Forces of Nature, has decided to throw its support behind the Liberals and the NDP – and…
Rick Mercer Wants Canada to Vote
If you can vote in the Canadian election, you should. Rick Mercer, who has a great reputation of mocking Canadian politicians, has called every Canadian to vote this coming election…
Oh Liberals, Why Did You Do Something So Stupid?
News of Dan Grenier’s efforts reek of amateur politics rather than conspiracy. Here are my thoughts on why.
Senior Scam Alert
Although now retired as Canada’s longest-serving mayor, the redoubtable Hazel McCallion continues her life of public service: Meanwhile, over at Don Martin’s Power Play, watch the first two minutes of…
The Hair needs the Fords?
Recently we were writing about bumper-sticker campaigning. Nothing seems to say this better when six days before the election, the Ford brothers come out to help the Hair campaign in…
Stephen Harper and the Tale of Two Cartoons
They say a good political cartoon can be worth a thousand words.So now that we know that Stephen Harper is in a foul mood, and snapping at all those around…
Contempt of Court
Suppose a judge orders you to do something that you find very hard to do – say bring your five year old to her father for a weekend and you…
For Who And What He Is
http://www.people-results.com/ Carol Goar has an interesting column in today’s Toronto Star. She writes that this election has held a mirror up to us and forced us to face some hard…
Harper Derangement Syndrome or Stephen Stockholm Syndrome?
As we approach the day of decision that will determine the fate of this country, I have been skimming through some of the thousands of posts I have written denouncing…
KCCCC Day 74: the seventh inning and election 42 – a comparative analysis
Look, I’m a Red Sox fan. I ain’t jumping’ on no bandwagon. But I’d fed the dogs, the wife was out with her girlfriends, the kids were all doing homework…
Its not about me!
The Conservative “This election isn’t about me, Stephen Harper” ad that reached airwaves during Friday’s Blue Jays game is remarkable. It is impossible to look upon it as anything other…