Serious times: Harper talking recession
It appears that David Cameron's speech yesterday to Parliament made a big splash. Beyond the parts where he played up to Canada and made a case for increased trade and…
It appears that David Cameron's speech yesterday to Parliament made a big splash. Beyond the parts where he played up to Canada and made a case for increased trade and…
"Sources said that MacKay was lifted on a hoist from the ground into the helicopter hovering overhead and then flown to CFB Gander." On a hoist, you say? That would…
In case you missed David Cameron's address to the House of Commons earlier. Or, just consider this one a more entertaining version.
From Horwath's announcement yesterday, this claim on hospital CEO salaries: Horwath noted that by capping executive salaries at twice the salary of the Ontario Premier, about $80 million could be…
Let's check in on how it's going since government cuts to Canada's long time ozone monitoring program made news and the international scientific community took note. Karen Dodds, the assistant…
So the R.E.M. era is over. Guess it's kind of been over for a few years now, really. Since it's the official break-up, thought I'd post one of theirs that…
Hey! A reasonable newspaper column on green energy I can get behind! For the first time this campaign: " Energy flashpoints and the politics of power." The right wing insists…
Have a good night.
So John Ivison had another column today criticizing the Ontario Liberal government's green energy plan: here. The column focuses on a solar energy company that Dalton McGuinty visited this week,…
It's too bad that the Star only taped just under 3 minutes of the meeting they had with Tim Hudak. The Ottawa Citizen met with Dalton McGuinty the other day…
No analogies intended. Just fun.
A Globe editorial aligns itself with the criticisms that were laid out by the Ontario Provincial Police Commissioner. Hudak's proposal to make public a sex offender registry is a cheap…
Great post on the Harper government's latest anti-science move: "What We Don’t Know Will Hurt Us." They're axing an ozone monitoring project in the Arctic that has been in place…
In the news, a few headlines from today and the last 24 hours or so..."Euro zone crisis? It’s more like Armageddon." It is now morphing into a banking crisis, one…
"Ottawa calls for probe of PEI immigration program." The timing of all of this is suspect: The federal government is calling in the RCMP and the Canada Border Services Agency…
The results of the plebiscite are in: Tens of thousands of Western Canadian farmers have sent a clear message to Ottawa, demanding the CWB single-desk marketing system be retained.Results of…
Finally addressing the big issue of week one that the NDP curiously declined to speak about: For a week, Andrea Horwath has been reluctant to talk about the issue sucking…
This is a very clever 90 seconds. McGuinty is articulating a moral view here, of what Ontario is about and what he believes, in continued response to Tim Hudak's divisive…
This John Ivison column from yesterday is the latest from a Canadian pundit to attack the Ontario government's green energy efforts: "McGuinty's green bubble ready to pop." It, like the…