Throwback Thursday
Ottawa, Summer 1982: don’t try this at home, kids.
October 2015
PR—an essential first step
Our brand spanking new Liberal government has promised us electoral reform. Specifically, it is “committed to ensuring that 2015 will be the last federal election conducted under the first-past-the-post voting…
Day Two of the The Rebel Media E-FLAP
Well, The Rebel Media doesn’t disappoint. It is now my second day of E-FLAP, Ezra Fabrication, Lies and Propaganda (E-FLAP) and we already have two more additions to the catalog.…
Fixing What Harper Broke:
a to-do list for the incoming government Okay, not about Vancouver parks today. But I thought an important post nonetheless. Thank you to Elizabeth May, leader of the Green Party…
Building Manitoba’s Fightback
Photo by Tony Hisgett The upcoming provincial elections in Manitoba are worrying. The provincial NDP may cling to power come April, 2016, but a Progressive Conservative government might get elected…
Oct. 29: So much news it’s too much news.
But the Irving press spares you the pain of too much reading. It’s foreign news isn’t really foreign at all. In fact, I’m not sure there is such a thing…
Horgan in the BC Legislature
Hansard, October 28, 2015: Yesterday I asked the Premier if she would apologize to Tim Duncan, the courageous whistle-blower who came forward when he was bullied by an official in…
The NDP—back to social democracy
Rather like the British Labour Party under Tony Blair, the NDP made a play for the political centre. The Liberals, led by the dangerous to underestimate Justin Trudeau, have now…
Fear is Just a Four Letter Word….
Which film or TV show scared you most as a child? Jekyll and Hyde’s writer Charlie Higson said ‘I’ve always maintained it is good to scare children.’ Photograph: ITV plc…
2015 Election Aftermath: Hard Lessons for Greens
Last Monday’s election results were a disaster for the Green Party of Canada. Not only did the Green Party lose seats (2 incumbents at dissolution with only 1 returned), but…
Written Agreements Can Only Be Interpreted In Context
Puri Consulting Limited v. Kim Orr Barristers PC, 2015 ONCA 727: As Doherty J.A. noted in Dumbrell v. The Regional Group of Companies Inc. (2007), 85 O.R. (3d) 616 (C.A.),…
Reluctance to write about social movements
I’m feeling an odd reluctance to do a certain kind of writing about social movements. It’s odd because, in many respects, I’m pretty well placed to do this writing. For…
An Early Caregiver Month Treat: A Chat With Amy Goyer, Caregiving Author and AARP Blogger
November is caregiving month and to kick off just a tiny bit early, here’s a special treat. This week I had the pleasure of interviewing Amy Goyer about her new…
November 4, 2015 – Change of Power
King Stephen Harper is not ready yet.
Your Daily Digital Digest for Thursday, October 29, 2015
Your news links for today: Why Apple Pay’s Canadian launch bypassed banks – Globe and Mail What mobile payment options are available to Canadians? – Globe and Mail Canadians spending…
My Post City column on Trudeaumania in T.O.
Found here.
Police Wife: A Review by André Moncourt
The wave of police killings of young blacks in the U.S. over the past several years and the recent resistance in Ferguson and Baltimore have made police violence a front-page…
The Ghosts of Harper’s Cons Will Haunt the Halls of Parliament for Years to Come
This Halloween special: Justin Trudeau will need a Ghostbuster-like vetting of Ottawa if he’s going to get anything done in the next four years.
Cut Out Sugar and Improve Everything
Some new research points out by simply cutting out sugar one can improve basically all that ails them. In a recent research study children gave up sugar for nine days…