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October 2019
The Ford Factor
Some pundits — including Bob Rae — are suggesting that Andrew Scheer’s decision to keep Doug Ford under wraps during the election was a mistake. Bob Hepburn writes: In Scheer’s…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Klaus Schwab comments on the importance of making decisions with far more of a long-term focus, rather paying attention only to short-term…
On legacies
For all the campaign talk about how this year’s election campaign could have proven a parallel of the 1972 result, we’ve instead ended up seeing Justin Trudeau repudiate his father’s…
Use TOR to Access the BBC on the “Dark Web”
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has launched on the dark web to help those in authoritarian regimes access international news. To access the the site one only need the Tor…
The West wants out
The day after the election, two things happened. Shares in SNC-Lavalin – a company based in Quebec – went up, way up. Up 14 per cent, in a single day.…
Orange Post-mortem
It’s been a few days now since the 43rd General Election came to an end and we’ve started to come to terms with our new political reality. We’ve got a…
Nobody hates Albertans.
It has never been personal. A close friend of mine in the oil business always used to greet me with the comment. “Damn, you haven’t frozen in the dark yet!”…
Martin Dougiamas, e_learning Africa
Summary of talk by Martin Dougiamas at e_learning Africa. I’m just going to focus on open ed-tech. We had a conference about Moodle in this room yesterday. Our mission at…
Efosa Ojomo, Christensen Institute
Summary of a talk by Efosa Ojomo, Christensen Institute, at eLearning Africa in Abidjan. The four Ps of education: purpose, problem, practicality, promise. The porpose: not simply to get people…
Budget Day reminder: Facts about Alberta public employees don’t support propaganda saying they’re too numerous or paid too much
Alberta’s a high-wage province! Who knew? Maybe the question ought to be … Who didn’t? At any rate, the Kenney Government’s “blue-ribbon” panel on Alberta’s finances, chaired by former Saskatchewan…
The unbridgeable gap: Alberta and Saskatchewan
One result of the recent election is a certain amount of angst about Alberta and Saskatchewan failing to elect a single Liberal. How to ameliorate the alienation felt by this…
Far-Right Violence in Hamilton Highlights Police Hypocrisy
On September 29 Maxime Bernier held a PPC fundraising event in Hamilton, featuring Dave Rubin. There were a number of scuffles at the event, and eyewitnesses informed us that not…
A speculative history of my Y DNA 1
Ancestry has done an update. Information in databases grows. My Italian has dropped from 21 to 14 to 4%. Interesting. And I’m not going to go on all alarmed and…
Elizabeth May is against the despicable “old style” politics
I wonder how that worked out for her? Green Party Leader Elizabeth May was so certain of her party’s victory in a string of Vancouver Island ridings that her campaign…
Anybody Remember Joe Clark?
Joe Clark, the 16th prime minister of Canada. In May, 1979, Joe swept Pierre Trudeau’s government out of power, winning a minority government. The PCs swept pretty much everything west…
If Scientists Can Get It Wrong, Why Not Economists?
Scientists have been wrong about climate change since that became a household term. They just keep getting it wrong but not in the way you hear it from odious people…
Now There’s an Idea! Every Vote Should Count.
Now, if you’re one of those people who doesn’t spot the obscenity in some guy who just won 33 per cent of the vote crowing about the grand mandate he…
As The Dust Settles….
I will offer no analysis of our federal election; I will only say that from my perspective (my disappointment that the Greens did not do better notwithstanding), the fact of…
It’d Serve the Bastards Right
Why is Justin Trudeau our prime minister, not Andrew Scheer? According to an item I picked up on CBC this morning it could be that ‘Summer Help’ Andy was laid…