Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – PressProgress weighs in on corporate Canada’s twelve-figure tax avoidance, while noting that the Cons’ decision to slash enforcement against tax cheats (while attacking…
2015
Is Sweden fair to Canadians?
Not based on the evidence in this case, they’re not. Full disclosure: former Maple Leaf Andre Derveaux is a friend and a client. This morning, we helped him at a…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Friday, May 8, 2015
Your news links for today: Canada passes anti-terror bill that’s bad news for online privacy – Engadget Bill C-51 mega-thread – reddit Of Snowden and the NSA, only one has…
Full UK results
Teddy here; suffering from Election Fever. I’ll need to take a day or two to recover before I start my post-election analysis of the various elections. Until then, here are…
small town roughs
We had just finished setting up our tent in among the buildings, although the buildings were in the wrong configuration. It was a farm I’d never been to before, in…
The sad irony is that I posted Josh Whedon’s observation about Twitter on Twitter
To wit: “The real issue is me. Twitter is an addictive little thing, and if it’s there, I gotta check it. When you keep doing something after it stops giving…
The Sweet Taste Of Freedom
Watching Omar Khadr’s media scrum last night, it became obvious why the Harper regime fought so hard, first, to deny media access to him while he was in prison, and…
Can She Stay In The Driver’s Seat?
http://www.kimberry.com/ Jim Prentice, the turn around and he’s gone premier of Alberta, used to be a member of The Trilateral Commission. Michael Harris reminds his readers that the commission is:…
Do Ontario Tories need a leader?
The Ontario Progressive Conservative Party will announce its new leader tomorrow. Will anyone care? Is it going to make a difference? With three years to go before an election in…
Stephen Harper and the Desperate Days of Total Disaster
I have no idea where Stephen Harper is or what he's doing. He hasn't tweeted a word for 48 hours. His squawking Twitter site has suddenly gone silentBut I bet…
Flawed analysis
Following the passing of Alberta’s Conservative party, Macleans writer Colby Cosh described a drawn-out illness that made the result inevitable. Followers of British Columbia politics will recognize symptoms also found…
Trends: corpse kicking after a lost decade of delusion #nlpoli
Don Mills is the latest fan of the provincial Conservatives to turn on them savagely. The St. John’s Board of Trade had Don back to deliver a luncheon speech this…
It’s still hard to believe the NDP won Alberta’s election
Two days later it is still hard to believe. The New Democratic Party won an election in Alberta? The NDP won a majority government in Alberta? Rachel Notley is the…
Tune up this spring with something new … Alberta’s PCs can find renewal and purpose as something completely different!
PHOTOS: UFA fuel stations today dot Alberta, giving hope to the remnants of the once mighty PC Party’s membership, who could transform the former political entity into something like this.…
It Couldn’t Be Clearer but Nobody in Ottawa is Listening – Running Out the Clock
Okay, I agree – the science isn’t in. Not all of it anyway. There’s more coming in almost daily – research, studies, experiments, observations and analyses, projections – there’s a…
Outdoor Staircases in Montreal
These exterior staircases make a street dance, there are visual rhythms along otherwise dull avenues, there is an interaction amongst neighbors that wouldn’t happen with interior staircases, all part of…
On private choices
Among the other noteworthy impacts of Rachel Notley’s resounding election victory, right-wing governments elsewhere can no longer point to Alberta as the worst offender when it comes to breaking down…