Some Downtime
We are heading off for an inexpensive week in Cuba. It really pays to travel before high season kicks in. I'll be back at the computer in about a week.…
2015
No apology was necessary.
Immigration Minister John McCallum sounded a bit testy with the news media the other day. They had probably forced him to give the same answer to the same question more…
In next week’s Hill Times: Adam Radwanski is still the worst journalist in the world
A sampling of next week’s column: Good God! It’s a veritable constitutional crisis. Just ask Adam Radwanski: the scandalous understaffing issue has “cast a surreal haze” over Ottawa, he wrote…
My daughter and I drove all around town, windows open, yelling along to this song
What genius. NOFX: Kill All The White Man.
Weight Problems #nlpoli
If you want to know why Forum Research’s poll is out of line with the other polls done on the provincial election, you need look no further than the data…
Why the Canada Revenue Agency Needs to be Investigated
It's the burning question that remains to be answered about Stephen Harper 's monstrous years in power. The one that could make him Canada's Richard Nixon. The one that could…
Revenue up $1.2 B: Ontario overestimates deficit — for the sixth year
The Ontario government is forecasting that it will beat the deficit forecast for the sixth year in a row according to the province's Fall Economic Outlook and Fiscal Review.The deficit…
Seventeen candidates now running in Edmonton’s Ward 12 by-election
With two months left until the official nomination date, 17 candidates have registered their intentions to run in a by-eleciton to fill the Ward 12 vacancy on Edmonton City Council.…
WHAT DO CAREGIVERS NEED FROM THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM?
What do caregivers need from the health care system? This was the question I was asked at a recent online Town Hall event sponsored by The Caring Experience, a new…
Nov. 26: We live at a turning point in history….
....and it's not a good idea to live at a turning point in history.The fighting in the middle east has huge stakes for the U.S. and Russia. The U.S. has…
For Profit Health Care and queue jumping for the wealthy
In 2009, Brad Wall said he would never allow someone “to use a bulging wallet to jump the queue.” Now his government is doing exactly that. - CUPE Health Care…
For Profit Health Care and queue jumping for the wealthy
In 2009, Brad Wall said he would never allow someone “to use a bulging wallet to jump the queue.” Now his government is doing exactly that. – CUPE Health Care…
For Profit Health Care and queue jumping for the wealthy
In 2009, Brad Wall said he would never allow someone “to use a bulging wallet to jump the queue.” Now his government is doing exactly that. - CUPE Health Care…
DeSmog Canada Named as Finalist for Canadian Online Publishing Award
DeSmog Canada has been named as a finalist for “Best News Coverage” by the Canadian Online Publishing Awards. The awards recognize the best of the country’s online publishing and are…
For Profit Health Care and queue jumping for the wealthy
In 2009, Brad Wall said he would never allow someone “to use a bulging wallet to jump the queue.” Now his government is doing exactly that. - CUPE Health Care…
$5 Raspbery Pi Computer
With computers this cheap, the hardest part is finding applications that are programmed well enough to work on under-powered hardware.