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Karen Stintz on Tim Hudak’s Transit Credentials
Karen Stintz, Chair of the Toronto Transit Commission, on Ontario Progressive Conservative leader Tim Hudak`s credentials on the transit file. Mr. Hudak has some experience with the TTC, its infrastructure…
When is an Agriculture minister ^NOT an Agriculture minister?
Silence is golden. A proverbial saying… With respect to the Harper government, specifically the Agriculture minister and the XL Foods recall, saying nothing is preferable to speaking. For those of…
Mitt Romney’s Bain Made Millions On Big Tobacco In U.S., Russia
Jason Cherkis and Zach Carter of Huffington Post put together this story from the University of California at San Francisco’s Legacy Tobacco Documents library: Mitt Romney’s Bain Made Millions On…
Lance Armstrong, Doping, and Testicular Cancer
The reason we have to stand up against performance-enhancing drugs is not because it’s cheating. It’s not to protect the people who bet on sports. The idea of protecting gamblers…
Travelling BC & The Yukon with Deborah Coyne
As a BCer I’m always happiest in BC, and that’s where I am right now. I’m with Liberal leadership candidate Deborah Coyne on a 23-day tour of the province. After…
Bargain Basement Citizenship and the Decline of Democracy
We ought to be outraged. Just about every day our media provides a new account of the decline of our democracy: the inadequacies of our electoral system and allegations of…
Microsoft’s vacuous new news portal
Microsoft is undoubtedly hoping that its new news portal, to launch concurrently with Windows 8 and be heavily Metro UI based, will revolutionize our consumption of news. Or at least,…
Conservative Party Continues to Fail Fiscal Conservatives
I’m sure there are Conservative Party apologists out there ready to jump all over these stories, but the fact remains the Conservative Party continues to fail fiscal conservatives in Canada,…
Safe powerful policy for Justin Trudeau
I will be taking a break from blogging for the next month or so, but before taking my leave I will part with some, (in my not so very humble…
Everyone is talking about Trudeau
Ever since he became Prime Minister, Stephen Harper has dominated the Canadian political scene. Love him or loathe him, any discussion on federal politics has started and ended with Stephen…
Who’s to blame for NHL labour problems? Dumb Canadian fans
We Canadians can be a pretty dense lot at times. Oh we love to complain, to bitch and moan, but then we just roll over, and we never even expect…
International Day of Action on Iran in Winnipeg
Oct. 6, 2012: A passerby reads a leaflet distributed by Peace Alliance Winnipeg in Osborne Village. Photo: Paul S. Graham Activists in at least 6 Canadian cities joined in the…
Some YouTube movie recommendations
I still don’t have cable or satellite at my residence, so the internet remains the chief source of entertainment. Thanks to the resident love goddess however we now have a…
Don’t worry about what the Harper government is ^not spending…
Tony Clement, the President of Treasury Board, would like Canadians to believe that Kevin Page, the Parliamentary Budget Officer, is operating outside his mandate when he requests details on how…
Alexandre Trudeau: embedded in Justin’s campaign.
According to the Winnipeg Free Press, Sacha Trudeau is “stepping up” to act as senior advisor to his brother Justin’s campaign for the leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada.…
What are you thankful for? Justin Trudeau doesn’t count….
I have a lot to be thankful for, oh I have minor complaints like everyone, but focusing on all the good things in my life does wonders for my outlook…
My Dinner with Joseph Kony 2012
KONY 2012 In the above link I present to you a movie that over one hundred million people have viewed over the past six months. The YouTube video created by…
John Laforet: A Grounding End To My Sailing Season
It hit me earlier this week that the fall is here, and winter is coming, and that means I need to begin making plans to put my sailboat away until…