in which i help a skunk and it kind of says thank you
My apologies to wmtc readers who saw this on Facebook, but this story must be recorded on this blog! Yesterday morning the dogs were barking at the back door, really…
2015
We should put up a statue or something #nlpoli
There’s something a bit surreal about the news this week. Well, not really the news itself, so much as the way people are reacting to it. The drop in oil…
Seismic Testing for Oil Reserves a Threat to Arctic Marine Life, Study Warns
Seismic airguns are being fired underwater off the east coast of Greenland to find new oil reserves in the Arctic Ocean. But this activity “could seriously injure” whales and other…
NDP strength in Calgary-Foothills riding suggests May 5 election was no fluke – and could rattle federal Tory narrative
PHOTOS: A Chinook arch moves across the sky of Calgary in 2007, bringing warmer temperatures and, for some people, headaches. The same kind of thing happens in politics. Below: NDP…
KCCCC day 24: the strategists strategize
A nice young fellow from iPolitics got in touch with me this week. Some of my friends in other parties, too: Robin Sears, Will Stewart and Tim Powers. We were…
No entertainment value whatsoever
I’m testing something out here at the centre of the universe, so while I wait to see if that’s been successful, here’s a little story for you: Penguin’s car breaks…
British Columbians Say It’s Time to "Heave Steve"
The headline in the paper’s largest newspaper, The Vancouver Sun, says it all – B.C. Voters planning to push Harper’s Tories Out of Office. The new Insights West online survey…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Downed cats.
Conservatives Have a Big Decision in this Election. What’ll It Be – Canada or Harper?
I backed into what became an argument today with an old friend and I did not feel very good about it at all. We both knew Duffy way back when…
The Duffy Trial Adjourns But a New Poll Shows it Has Hurt Stephen Harper
The Duffy trial has adjourned and won't get going again until after the election.So you might think that Stephen Harper would be letting out a giant sigh of relief.But sadly…
Robert Jago Soldiers On
I think Robert and I were the first two bloggers in Canadian history to force a candidate to step down for things they’d said on the Internet. But in ’08…
August 24: An apology…
I missed yesterday’s blog because life became chaotic for the day. I didn’t need the world’s chaos to add to it. Luckily, I found only one column in the August…
About That Beach In Verdun
While not an entirely new idea, the concept of a beach in Verdun in it’s current form was given impetus by Projet Montreal in 2009. I didn’t like the idea…
About That Beach In Verdun
While not an entirely new idea, the concept of a beach in Verdun in it’s current form was given impetus by Projet Montreal in 2009. I didn’t like the idea…
Lessons learned
As I noted here, it’s well worth comparing what’s happening in any given election to any recent precedents. While past performance never guarantees future results, we can tell both what…
Another "Dog (Ate My Homework) Day" Wraps Up Duffy Trial, For Now.
The Duffy trial is adjourned until 18 November. Don Bayne finished mauling Chris Woodcock, Harper’s former PMO director of issues management with yet another fitting bit of the, now almost…
Ashley Madison’s misguided attempts to put the genie back in the bottle
Ashley Madison’s use of DMCA takedown notices to social media platforms in an attempt to stop the dissemination of the site users’ hacked personal information “may violate the DMCA itself,”…