Stephen Harper and Jason Kenney’s Con Clown Tour of Iraq
It looked like a scene out of one of those On the Road movies with Bing Crosby and Bob Hope.Except that this movie is not a comedy it's a horror…
2015
More Public Money on False Ads
As the Conservative Regime move forward with their new branding efforts in an attempt to persuade the public that they are the greatest thing since the 1936 regime in Germany…
The Not So Comfortable Pews
http://mic.com In the latest edition of The New York Review of Books, Gary Wills writes that Pope Francis is making the billionaires — particularly Catholic billionaires — quake. On the…
The Day Jim Prentice’s Fear Campaign Got a Slap in the Face
With just two days to go before the Alberta election the excitement is mounting, and so is the fear campaign.With Jim Prentice and his Big Business posse trying to scare…
Finally, a political party with the guts to talk tax hikes
The right-wing mantras of no new taxes and tax cuts have become so embedded in political discourse that suggesting a tax increase, regardless of the social good it may do,…
Hope and Fear: 2 days until Alberta’s election
With only two full days left before the May 5 provincial election, the 43-year long governing Progressive Conservatives and its supporters are waging a thick fear campaign against its electoral…
Sorry Rachel, math is too difficult for you girls
Your browser does not support this audio Alberta Conservative Leader Jim Prentice & NDP Leader Rachel Notley
Saturday Photo: To Ope Their Trunks The Tree Are Never Seen…
How then to they put on their robes of green? Those are the words of a song I learned in fourth grade. Can’t find where it comes from, but I…
May 2: slim pickin’s
Section A has only two stories that caught my attention. One was about the anniversary of the Battle of the Atlantic, the one theatre of war that was dominated by…
Iran is standing down—will the U.S. and Russia?
Iran has recently agreed, after intense negotiations, to take steps to ensure it cannot produce a nuclear weapon. It claimed it had no intention of doing so anyway, but has…
The Coalition Game
A revised version of this post has now been published at iPolitics. Recently Justin Trudeau made headlines when he declared that he might be interested in a coalition with the…
The Coalition Game
A revised version of this post has now been published at iPolitics.Recently Justin Trudeau made headlines when he declared that he might be interested in a coalition with the NDP…
The Coalition Game
Recently Justin Trudeau made headlines when he declared that he might be interested in a coalition with the NDP but rejected the idea because of Tom Mulcair’s ‘old-style’ way of…
Rafe: Woodfibre LNG is bad business for BC
Except briefly, let’s avoid environmental questions about Woodfibre LNG for today and concentrate on fiscal matters. Even if Woodfibre LNG was an environmental bonus to Howe Sound and the surrounding…
UK Election: Labour leader’s nonsense about no cooperation with SNP
Sturgeon’s view of Miliband’s anti-cooperation nonsense Next week Britons go to the polls, and Labour leader Miliband has once more put his foot in his mouth with a statement that…
Research and Evidence
I wrote the other day that the study released by George Siemens and others on the history and current state of distance, blended, and online learning was a bad study.…
Zombie Confidence Fairy finally rears its head as the 2015 Campaign of Fear gets up steam in Alberta
A group of five prominent Edmonton businessmen with ties to the Prentice Progressive Conservative Party tried to talk some sense into us crazy Albertans yesterday about voting NDP during a…
Chrétien, Putin and Harper—opportunity lost?
Former prime minister Jean Chrétien’s recent chat with Vladimir Putin in Moscow presents an opportunity to our government. Since Mr. Harper has, unlike all the other G7 leaders, refused to…
Harpers and CPC Objection to Omar Khar Bail Release Just FAILED!!!
Harpers and CPC Objection to Omar Khadr’s Bail Release Just FAILED!!! The Harper Government and CPC/Government lawyers who oppose Omar Khadr bail release was based on one single objection, that…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Lynne Fernandez properly labels the Cons’ federal budget as the “inequality budget”. Andrew Jackson discusses how we’ve ended up in a new Gilded…