KCCCC Day 28: back in Canuckistan
Took 12 straight hours but I made it home with Sons 1, 2 and 3 last night. Drove through four states and two countries, made three pee stops, was greeted…
2015
A Balanced Budget Isn’t A ‘Left’ or ‘Right’ Thing, Part II
Yesterday, I posted this article showing how NDP governments have been the most effective with respect to balancing budgets over the last 40 years, relying heavily on this article from…
What I Believe This Election Should Be About But So Far Isn’t
It has to be the strangest election campaign I have ever known. In the condo jungle where I live it's hard to know one is even underway. There are no…
Are 30% Of Us Fools?
http://www.quotesvalley.com/ Jeffrey Simpson writes that Stephen Harper’s core of support is six percent: After all, Conservative bedrock support is reckoned to be about 30 per cent, or maybe a trifle…
The Silence is Becoming Deafening.
A few weeks ago I reported that my local Conservative MP “will be declining to participate in any all-candidates meeting that follows the traditional format, one he says simply does…
Chet and Mark – See You In My Dreams
Seriously, it this doesn’t do something to you, find where it should be because that part of you needs resurrecting. What is rarely understood was that Knopfler sought out Atkins.…
Late night ruminations…..The soundtrack.
I am reading a lot of news items that I saved in all my tabs this week. Im still around, you betcha. Number one on my “fun” list. Wonder how…
Saturday Photo: Back to School
This week Jeanne started kindergarten–hard to believe that she’s now five. Like millions of children in North America, she’s said good by to summer, and gone skippingly into a new…
Mulcair is wrong on the deficit: cozying up to the neocons
Louis-Philippe Rochon Associate Professor, Laurentian University Co-editor, Review of Keynesian Economics Follow him on Twitter @Lprochon First, it was his enthusiastic support and admiration of Margaret Thatcher; now it is…
Harper’s Crew Suspend Scientist For Folk Song About Prime Minister
I ran this on the blog when it first appeared back in June. Now scientist Tony Turner has been suspended. It is OK Tony, we are going to fire Steve,…
Caregiving Has Its Own Time Zone
My Mom’s apartment has its own unique time zone. At her place, minutes tick by but after four or five hours, I realise that we haven’t accomplished very much at…
Get With the Programme
There is so much research and analysis pouring in these days that it can be hard to keep the reality of climate change in clear focus. There are any number…
In a PM, Character Matters – Be Wary of Mulcair
Years ago when Parliament was looking into Brian Mulroney's envelopes of cash from an arms dealer, I followed every minute on TV. I was most impressed by two MPs on…
In a PM, Character Matters – Be Wary of Mulcair
Years ago when Parliament was looking into Brian Mulroney’s envelopes of cash from an arms dealer, I followed every minute on TV. I was most impressed by two MPs on…
In a PM, Character Matters – Be Wary of Mulcair
Years ago when Parliament was looking into Brian Mulroney's envelopes of cash from an arms dealer, I followed every minute on TV. I was most impressed by two MPs on…
In a PM, Character Matters – Be Wary of Mulcair
Years ago when Parliament was looking into Brian Mulroney’s envelopes of cash from an arms dealer, I followed every minute on TV. I was most impressed by two MPs on…
On balanced options
Dave McGrane offers a historical perspective on how deficits for their own sake shouldn’t be seen as an element of left-wing or progressive policy, while Excited Delerium takes a look…
Federal nomination update: NDP close to full-slate in Alberta
Caught slow out of the gates nominating federal candidates in Alberta, the New Democratic Party has caught up and is now only one candidate short of a full-slate in the…