Prostitution is like abortion: you can’t stop it
With the Supreme Court striking down Canada’s prostitution laws, they have forced the issue into the public sphere. Within a year, Parliament has to decide to pass new laws regarding…
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Tech on the Side: Lessons from HDDVD vs Blu-ray
My first real foray into the world of following tech news came with the epic HDDVD vs Blu-ray fight. This was more than a little odd. At the time, I…
A relentless call for donations: The last 65 emails from the Liberals
Starting the day that Justin Trudeau was elected as the leader of the Liberal Party, I have received 65 emails from the LPC’s main bulk email account, most with Trudeau’s…
The Morality of Online Poker
For years, I have engaged in a rather profitable side hobby: online poker. Poker is a fascinating game with layers upon layers of complexity, and I love the challenge, the…
Tech on the Side: Apple’s tablet upgrade cycle problem
On this blog I like to cover the big issue facing our planet, issues dramatically affecting millions or billions of people: war, conflict, global warming, poverty, economics, rights and freedoms,…
Linda McQuaig’s cognitive dissonance on negative campaigning
The recent byelection in Toronto center – won handily by the Liberals’ Chrystia Freeland in a race against the NDP’s Linda McQuaig – ruffled quite a bit of feathers. Justin…
Why we should hope that Bitcoin doesn’t succeed
Most people who currently own bitcoin don’t own it to use it in the short term. The amount of uses for people to spend bitcoins is trivial in comparison to…
Justin Trdeau should run a positive campaign, not run on having a positive campaign
Day in and day out, or so it seems, Justin Trudeau hammers away at one theme above all else: that he is, or so he claims, engaging in positive politics.…
A Scandal in Two Institutions: The Senate Half
What has become known as the Senate Scandal is really a scandal in two institutions: the Senate, of course, but also the PMO. The PMO half of this scandal was…
A Scandal in Two Institutions: The PMO Half
Nigel Wright What has become known as the Senate Scandal is really a scandal in two institutions: the Senate, of course, but also the PMO. In both institutions, the scandal…
DC’s problems are hardly just DC’s
Caught up in the ridiculous turmoil over the government shut down and debt limit, it is easy to pessimistically blame Washington, to blame the convoluted hyperpartisan machinations of the parties…
The NDP: Moderates not Socialists
Many Canadians simply will not consider voting for the NDP and one of the most common reasons for this provided, either explicitly or implicitly, is that the NDP are socialists,…
The Reaction to Edward Snowden Parallels that of Julian Assange
Whenever we learn something new and impactful about what our governments or other institutions of power are doing, we owe ourselves a public discussion of these new revelations. Perhaps we…
Syria – Is there nothing we can do?
In the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide, as the world collectively tried to parse the abhorrent barbarism and purposelessness that had occurred, a new foreign policy doctrine was proposed: liberal…
On polls and election predictions
If nothing else, the BC Liberals’ entirely unexpected and dominating win in BC last night will be a useful lesson in humility for pollsters and those that rely on them…
Thank you Westboro Baptist Chuch
Westboro Baptish Church – made infamous for picketing military funeral in a protest against homosexual tolerance in America – has reached, unbelievably, a new low. They are now threatening to…
Windows 8 is a flop, and there is little they could have done differently
The recent release of an IDC report shines a pretty bad light on Microsoft. Windows 8 is selling very poorly with the steepest declines ever in the PC market, and…
The pestering begins: Liberal leadership candidates with campaign debt (Updated twice)
I was very critical after the NDP Leadership election that the inboxes of supporters were full of emails from the candidates who did not win the leadership, but had extensive…
Justin’s not so positive acceptance speech
The full text of Justin Trudeau’s speech can be found here. I wanted to highlight the section talking about the Conservatives and Stephen Harper. It is the first major section…
Obama tries to regain the narrative on the Sequester
When Obama decided to give back 5% of his salary to the Treasury, he made a political move not done since Herbert Hoover. In so doing, he undoubtedly aims to…