Reboot Alberta 3.0
I’m in Edmonton this weekend for the Reboot 3.0 conference, to see what the latest installment of these gatherings for self-selected ‘progressives’ has in store. The most interesting charecteristic of…
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Elizabeth May On Quantum Buddha’s Blog Animated Show
Elizabeth May’s cartoon double (that looks like Sarah Palin) was on my blog show tonight answering questions about the Green Party of Canada and her leadership. This is my first…
Review: World’s Greenest Oil – Turning the Oil Sands from Black to Green
For Peter Silverstone, cleaning up the oilsands has nothing to do with mitigating the effects of climate change. Rather, it has to do with mitigating the effects climate change has…
An oldie but a goodie
I tripped across this a while ago- a radio interview with Tony Prudori- INAC flack in Thunder Bay in a CBC radio interview about the Attawapiskat school issue. It’s an…
E-voting without worrying
There are some TED talks that are simply impossible to not finish once you start them, where the speaker is so engrossing that when the video ends you feel like…
It’s 2010, your future is here (sorta)
Bionic implants give sight to the blind. No, really. Know what’s good to look at with bionic eyes? Holographic displays. Not techy, but definitely a sign of the times: China…
Daily dose of US Supreme Court humour
So the state of California is defending an asinine law before the US Supreme court that would allow the state to ban violent videogames. Via Geekology, it appears the deliberations…
Another McIvor update
Sorry folks I’ve known about this for a while – but it seems I never posted the info. (Only thought I did. Signs of aging.) A while ago the government…
A funny from Indian Country.
A friend of mine who works at a First Nations organization gets an email asking for an application for a status card. She is typing a reply explaining why she…
Carl Benito Throws Wife Under Bus, Figuratively Speaking
Edmonton-Milwoods MLA Carl Benito provides a bizarre explanation for paying his property taxes. His wife forgot… even though he disclosed these unpaid taxes months before he submitted his Public Disclosure…
Green belt, tighten our belt: Contesting the Places to Grow Act
People living in vigorous cultures typically treasure those cultures and resist any threat to them. How and why can a people so totally discard a formerly vital culture that it…
Bill 17: De-democratizing healthcare
My time lately has been consumed by two grad courses, an active full-time job and home and family commitments. But one emergent and urgent issue has forced me to tend…
Arguing About Hate Crime
Once it had been explained to me, I found it pretty simple. When you single out a group of people as a target for hatred and violence, you assault a…
PC AGM Part 3 – Final thoughts
I should begin this post about the weekend’s PC party AGM in Calgary with a pair of disclaimers. I am not, nor have I ever been, a member of the…
First Nations accountability story – now this is more like it.
In response to A toronto Star article criticizing chief’s salaries – as if that were the only accountability issue in Indian Country I wrote: “Yet no one shames the Minister…
Campaign Lessons Learned: What Would Don Draper Do?
A municipal campaign is perhaps the purest form of politics there is. There is no Party, no political machine at your back – just you and the voters. I didn’t…
Signs of sanity
Just watching some of the rally to restore sanity videos being posted by regular folks on Youtube. Signs of sanity: looks at some of the signs protestors are using. My…
PC AGM Part 2
While this morning’s closed session on election readiness is taking place it is time to put some thoughts together on the opening night of the PC AGM . (the research…
Questions Emerge After Alberta Environment Minister Outlines Tailings Pond Safety
I wrote to Alberta Environment Minister Rob Renner two weeks ago inquiring what, if any, plan the Alberta Government had to deal with a tailings breach. Here’s what Minister Renner…
PC AGM, Part 1
I have been offered the opportunity to attend the PC AGM here in Calgary this weekend as a ‘new media’ observer. Leaving aside the simple curiosity of a political nerd…