The Ad Wars Begin
Since I am currently preoccupied with rebuilding a small part of our deck (unskilled non-trades person that I am, the work is proceeding slowly), I shall take the easy way…
2015
The Big Blue Propaganda Machine
Jeff Sallot offers some perspective on the Big Blue Propaganda Machine: How big is the propaganda machine? Well, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation reported last year the government employs no fewer…
Angus Reid: Strong Support For Bill C51/Strong Support for Oversight. (Liberal position vindicated in this poll)
Given the furore over the past couple of months on social media – most of it NDP activist driven – you’d think that the entire country hated Bill C51, the…
Bashing Barrie is a provincial sport.
Queen’s Park dashed Barrie’s hopes for a university campus recently and nobody in the city is happy about it. You would swear that bashing Barrie could be made a sport…
Difference Between “Discreet” and “Discrete”
The difference is significant and when confused can lead to hilarious results — “I am very discrete” suggests “I am quite alienated” as opposed to “I can be trusted with…
Stephen Harper and the Great Con Pension Scam
You might think that Stephen Harper has done enough to hurt poor seniors. By making them wait until they are sixty-seven to receive Old Age Security payments. And treating our…
Specific performance
UBS Securities Canada, Inc. v. Sands Brothers Canada, Ltd., 2009 ONCA 328 provides a nice summary of when specific performance is available: There is no dispute about the applicable legal…
Is Stephen Harper Planning to Call an Election in Early August?
As you know the Con Death Machine, in a desperate attempt to soften Stephen Harper's image, has just released an ad portraying him as a kinder gentler Big Daddy.A man…
Conservatives abandon ridiculous position on European trade… again #nlpoli
In January, trade minister Darin King wrote a letter to his federal counterpart about the European trade deal.King said the provincial government would: withdraw from any trade talks OTHER than…
Does advertising plagiarism suggest Harper Government’s running on intellectual fumes?
PHOTOS: A screen shot from the new Harper Government anti-Tom-Mulcair advertisement. Actual Harper government plagiarism may not appear exactly as illustrated. Below: Scenes from the nearly identical 2011 Manitoba NDP…
Navigator hires Notley’s press secretary. Former NDP, Wildrose, PC MLAs go into business.
The realm of government relations and lobbying is a world that most Albertans will never be exposed to. The industry of influencing elected officials and government policy as practiced by…
In this week’s Hill Times: weep for the Canadian media
Fittingly, it took a small-town radio station to ask The Question. It came on Dave Glover’s drive-time show on CFWN in Northumberland. “What,” I was asked, “do you think about…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Grounded cats.
Spain, Poland and Greece: shudders in Europe’s political foundations | Paul Mason
Spain, Poland and Greece: shudders in Europe’s political foundations | Paul Mason. “The economy’s recovering, so why are you punishing us?” That is the subtext of mainstream conservative responses to…
The New Campaign to Mind Bomb the Harper Government
It's been almost two months since a ship spewed oil all over Vancouver's English Bay.And who can forget how slow the federal reaction was, or how the hapless Con beluga…
On search results
Colby Cosh’s latest on the role of the “human search engine” in tracking down information about candidates and elected officials is worth a read. But it’s worth keeping in mind…
Farrell and Jessop on CFAX1070
The audio file below is a recording of my time with Ian Jessop May 26. We talk about credit rating agencies, provincial debt, contractual obligations, resource taxation and transit funding…
Alberta’s First NDP Climate Victory May Have Nothing to Do With the Oilsands and Everything to Do With Coal
Back in March when the prospect of a majority NDP government in Alberta was still a twinkle in Rachely Notley’s eye, the to-be premier introduced a motion to phase out…
Dr Guy McPherson-Responding To Climate Change
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