On The Modern Day Electric Dishwasher
When I was growing up back in the late 70s and early 1980s, my family owned an electric dishwasher. A good thing, obviously, though gross in that if a piece…
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Evidence That Stephen Harper Is Stepping Down..
…and Port Moody-Westwood MP James Moore is stepping up, is here. PS. That suit makes him look thinnish. He is not. Might be an issue. You see him at televised…
Canada Leading The Way On Climate Change!
When it comes to making the seas rise, our glaciers are kicking ass!The new research found that all glacial regions lost mass from 2003 to 2009, with the biggest ice…
Bernie Farber
…poses with: Conservative Party organizer Georgeanne Burke, PCPO riding association president for Thornhill (MPP Peter Shurman’s riding) Gila Martow, and York U professor Merle Jacobs. Also in the picture is…
Two Ontario Polls
Abacus has the Hudak Tories and Wynne’s OLP at 34% apiece with NDP at 25%; Innovative Research–who, you ask?--has Wynne up 7 points 37% to 30% for PCPO with NDP…
Students Against Israeli Apartheid Banned At York University
…for being too noisy. Which sounds like a way of getting rid of them while circumventing the free speech issues a more direct approach might entail. Although this comment from…
Rhyme Of The Duffster
Let’s hear it for Senator Duff/Whose salary wasn’t enuff/He took 90 grand/And when caught redhanded/Just grabbed 90 more from the trough— Trevor Strong (@Trevstrong) May 15, 2013
WTF Happened In B.C.?
You are asking me? One thing I’ll say is that this did not remind me of last year’s Alberta polling cock-up. The B.C. NDP are not an untried bunch, and…
The Tide Has Turned
It has begun. Labrador 2013. General Election 2015. PM Trudeau appoints me to Senate, 2016. He also appoints my wife, and gives us two seats near the aisle for bathroom…
Toronto Rabbis Denounce Pam Geller
Excerpts from Toronto Board of Rabbis statement: The Toronto Board of Rabbis (TBR) expresses its profound disappointment that a local Jewish organization has extended an invitation to Pamela Geller, a…
Stephen Harper’s Mother Day Greeting: The Secret First Draft
You’ve probably heard about this. Yesterday Stephen Harper asked Canada to wish Laureen Harper, his wife and the mother of his two kids, a happy Mother’s Day. Many people noted…
The Census And Your Privacy: The Courts Speak
When Sandra Finely received her long-form census papers in 2006, she refused to fill it out because she felt that the requirement violated her right to privacy, and was therefore…
A Spin-Able Victory
Upshot: the anti-Justin Trudeau attack ads, which debuted in the Maritimes so as to get Peter Penashue his seat back, did not work. In fact, given that this is a…
Whither Bill C-304?
With Senator Doug Finley’s passing, Bill C-304, the Harper government’s attempt to repeal Canada’s hate speech legislation, has lost its Senate champion. The bill was already stalled in the upper…
Keystone XL–Not Coming Soon
This (story through link) just confirms what I’ve argued for awhile. The Obama administration will take its own sweet time over the Keystone XL decision, especially if they are leaning…
No Community Level (Census Tract/Dissemination Area) Data In NHS
Today’s first release of the 2011 National Household Survey (NHS) data confirmed what we had previously written. It appears the data quality was so poor that Statscan decided to release…
Stats Canada NHS Survey: The First Big OOPS
I spent months arguing that the changes to Canada’s long form census would degrade the data from it. Today we are starting to see proof. Although most of the damage…
Ezra Levant’s Freedom Cruise Update: Tips For Travelers
As you know, last year Ezra Levant and the Sun News Network arranged a “Freedom Weekend” up in Muskoka for big-C Conservative zealots. Since nobody who signed up for that…
BC Election Takes Me Back
Hendrix. Magic mushrooms. NDP candidates denounced as Chinese commies. Man it brings back the old days…. Except that when I was coming of age the whole “NDPer is a commie!”…
The Cost Of Solar Power
A nice chart, from here: The graph above compares the price history of solar energy to conventional energy sources. This is what a disruptive technology looks like. While conventional energy…