Strategic voting in Edmonton Riverbend: vote NDP
Strategic voting in Edmonton Riverbend Edmonton Riverbend is another riding where strategic voting could make a difference. It is a new constituency, being more or less coterminous with what used…
October 2015
Norbert, you should be ashamed…
Norbert Cunningham’s column on the Opinion page of today’s paper wallows in delight, with unending praise for the Tran-Pacific Trade Partnership. And, for a journalist, that’s wrong. It’s not that…
The Adler-Kinsella show!
(Well, sort of.) Sirius has announced that my buddy Charles Adler is hosting a new show with them starting next week – and I can now reveal that I will…
Wriber: Canadian Intellectual Advancement
While Stephen Harper has done his fair share to direct our economy into the ground, he failed in all of his attempts from keeping Canadians from doing what they do…
If this holds, Stephen Harper gets his pink slip on October 19
… and joins the ranks of unemployed prime ministers. Today (October 8) the CBC Poll Tracker shows the Liberal Party with the most seats for the very first time:Pause for…
If this holds, Stephen Harper gets his pink slip on October 19
… and joins the ranks of unemployed prime ministers. Today (October 8) the CBC Poll Tracker shows the Liberal Party with the most seats for the very first time: Pause…
Does TPP Sabotage Climate Change Action?
Clause 20 of the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement sounds pretty good. “The 12 Parties agree to effectively enforce their environmental laws; and not to weaken environmental laws in order to encourage…
Hitching to a busted wagon
LNG bust could last for years, Nasdaq.com, Oct 8, 2015 Commodity prices have crashed over the past year, and the market for LNG is no different. Over the past five…
Marijuana (Users) "Infintely Worse" Than Cigarette Smokers
To Shifty Steve Harper’s little mind, marijuana is ‘infinitely worse’ than tobacco as a public health hazard. Of course Shifty’s lizard brain isn’t programmed to tell the truth. Fact is…
KCCCC Day 67: Dear Mr. Coyne
Andrew Coyne has a column in this morning’s paper. It basically takes the position that what Stephen Harper is doing on values was done before by Dalton McGuinty. You can…
Voter Suppression Measures and Canadian Elections
I’m reading Michael Harris’ book Party of One. I’m not very far in it but is plenty of interesting information in it. It helps to see how the effort to…
New column day
Here, on how the Cons’ multi-billion dollar price tag for Trans-Pacific Partnership compensation makes clear that every party is planning to spend large amounts of public money reshaping Canada –…
Election theme song from Hey Rosetta! & Yukon Blonde
Land You Love Land You Love – Hey Rosetta! & Yukon Blonde from Phil Maloney on Vimeo. This brings a tear to my eye everytime I play it. Thank you,…
Election theme song from Hey Rosetta! & Yukon Blonde
Land You Love Land You Love - Hey Rosetta! & Yukon Blonde from Phil Maloney on Vimeo. This brings a tear to my eye everytime I play it. Thank you,…
Election theme song from Hey Rosetta! & Yukon Blonde
Land You Love Land You Love – Hey Rosetta! & Yukon Blonde from Phil Maloney on Vimeo. This brings a tear to my eye everytime I play it. Thank you,…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Scott Santens writes about one possible endpoint of the current trend toward precarious employment, being the implementation of a basic income to…
Politics At Its Most Cynical
http://www.blazingcatfur.ca/ Did Stephen Harper make his comments about banning niqabs from the public service because he was drawn off script? David Krayden writes: First off, there is no room for…
Strategic voting in Edmonton Manning
Strategic voting in Edmonton Manning Edmonton Manning is a new riding created out of parts of Edmonton-Sherwood Park, Edmonton East and Edmonton-St. Albert. If the 2011 results of those three…