Late night
whimsyandcolour.com: Prairie Waves, Squiggly Line CloudsToday was the summer solstice, did you miss it?Thanks to Theo who, as always, likes to share his art.
Nancy Leblanc
The results are in
While it's interesting to have a glance at an early sense from Canadians on how they're feeling about what they just elected federally, part of this Nanos poll seems utterly…
Quebec fallout still unfolding
According to this report last night, another PQ MNA, Benoit Charette, is about to leave the party and that will be announced today: "Au tour du député de Deux-Montagnes de…
Party officials with newspaper columns
Quite a read, Brian Topp's just in from Vancouver item in the Globe on Monday. I expected him to tell us more, given this opening: The New Democratic Party met…
Liberal Extraordinary Convention: Leadership in 2013
Just a quick post here on the results of this afternoon's convention which went off without a hitch and with much collegiality on Twitter. The date for selection of the…
Friday night
Going with a Deadmau5 fave this week. If you want new stuff, check out the NXNE music festival going on all over Toronto, lots of variety there. These highlights are…
Liberal Extraordinary Convention tomorrow
The details surrounding the Liberal Extraordinary Convention are online. The event is going to be fully open to the public with a live audio stream along with a livechat as…
Go Canucks…and a few other things
It's the big Canucks game day and all so people are likely not going to be very interested in Canadian politics. But some big things are happening that bear mentioning.…
CANARIE chirps about their funding
A follow-up to yesterday's post, "Setting a high tech government funded asset adrift," where the sunsetting of funding for CANARIE, Canada’s Advanced Research and Innovation Network, was raised. I did…
Canada Wheat Board fight begins
As the video above explains, the NDP government in Manitoba, facing an election in October this year, is rolling out taxpayer funded ads to oppose the federal Conservatives' intended move…
Setting a high tech government funded asset adrift
Here is an item today that may be an indicator of the ideological underpinnings of this government shining through. See this post from Dwayne Winseck at the OpenMedia.ca site on…
"Not a budget for one Canada"
Thought I would just do an overview kind of post on Bob Rae's House of Commons budget debate remarks from earlier this week. You can see it above (runs about…
Ontario’s declining GHG emissions
Saw this on Live Free or Die's blog where he cites a recent Pembina item on Ontario's declining greenhouse gas emissions. Good roundup of GHG data. This part stood out…
Friday night
Going with this full version of a remix that was given mucho attention this week by one Pete Tong: Also kicking around from the last week of listening, Example, some…
"Like winning bingo on the Titanic"
Briony Penn, 2008 Liberal candidate in Saanich-Gulf Islands with some post-election thoughts: On the evening of May 2, along with the majority of Canadians, I was stunned. “Like winning bingo…
Rae interview on Radio-Canada
Rae is interviewed on Les coulisses du pouvoir. He speaks of a culture of division, a lack of solidarity within the Liberal party that is dangerous, about how Liberals differ…
We’re all in this together…except when it’s bad for business
Totally agree with Patrick Lagacé this morning. There are 500 Canadian troops at present in the Richelieu River valley. Peter MacKay toured the area yesterday. He and the federal government…