Make the ORPP voluntary, or enhance the CPP
Kathleen Wynne seems hell bent to introduce an Ontario Retirement Pension Plan by the year 2017. The idea is if a company doesn't have a pension plan or deferred profit…
2015
Grammatical Hell in a Handbasket
The Washington Post has started the apocalypse. Yes, they have. And the whole world is about to go to hell in the proverbial handbasket because of it. The maw of…
"It Is Good To Help Everyone In Need"
So says a Calgary homeless person in answer to those expressing outrage over the assistance being given to the Syrian refugees.Looks like the extreme right-wing will have to find another…
My New Years Resolution #1 – The Grumpy Jar
The Grumpy Jar A facebook acquaintance of mine Bonnie Zink and I came up with an excellent New Years Resolution. We will both try to promote the good things in…
Are humans Earth’s biggest enemy?
The Earth was once populated with beasts such as the woolly mammoth, illustration pictured. Over the last two million years many of these giant beasts, known as megafauna, have been…
Stuff Happens, week 48: Schools are run by idiots … and speaking of idiots, it’s Trump again
The Edmonton Catholic School District is run by idiots. A little harsh? Not at all. Too kind, if anything. Let me explain. This week, Edmonton Catholic (and Calgary Catholic) banned…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading.- Joseph Stiglitz writes that inequality is killing the American middle class. And Crawford Kilian examines the direct connection between inequality and midlife mortality:For…
Election 2015: the bettors are back
Way back in March or so, four of us – former Liberal leader senior staffers all – gathered to bet on the outcome of the election. I won’t reveal the…
CL et l’Avenir de la Pop en Anglais
Est-ce qu'elle va s'en tenir au modèle de Céline Dion qui dit que pour avoir une carrière américaine et authentiquement planétaire il faut reprendre à zéro avec produit exclusivement en…
Le Réseau Anglo-Saxon (Internet n’est pas aussi Anglais que tu crois…)
Les Coréens ont inventé l’imprimerie moderne au moins un siècle avant les Européens. Il y a dans les coffres du Département des manuscrits de Bibliothèque Nationale de France (cote :…
Dubya returns
It’s kind of scary when W. and Palin actually turn out to be smarter than any of the current GOP field, ain’t it?
The Climate Agreement and the Con Planet Burners
It's not a perfect deal. It's the product of compromise, so it may not be enough to do what needs to be done.It remain to be see whether the countries…
Real test of Paris climate agreement will be how markets and regulators react
So did we save the planet? From the outset, this was never about “saving the planet.” Our spinning hunk of rock has been around billions of years and will continue…
The deficit in perspective: HST version #nlpoli
Some people are upset that the provincial sales tax won’t be going up by two percent. The current harmonized sales tax rate is 13%.If you wanted to – if it…
The birth and death of privacy
I was in a local grocery store recently and it was my misfortune to enter, and walk most of the same aisles at the same time as a voluble woman…
The bathroom builder blunders on.
This news flash is courtesy the Toronto Star. Campion-Smith, Star Ottawa bureau chief, and Benzie, Star Queen’s Park bureau chief, have discovered that Conservative MP Tony Clement from Parry Sound—Muskoka…
Goodby Harper, Hello Canada
I am going to be taking a short break from my weekly blogging over the holidays but before I do I wanted to write a little of my personal thoughts…
Goodby Harper, Hello Canada
I am going to be taking a short break from my weekly blogging over the holidays but before I do I wanted to write a little of my personal thoughts…
Now Will the CBC Finally Fire Rex Murphy?
It couldn't have been a more jarring contrast. While negotiators in Paris worked desperately to put the finishing touches on a historic climate change deal. And prepared to celebrate its…