Ward 4 Interview with Curtis Kruschel
Curtis Kruschel has lived in Huntington Hills for the past fourteen years with his wife and two daughters. He is involved in his community mainly through sports. He is a…
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Wherein I side with the glibertarians
Okay, based on my entirely-scientific and not at all shoddy survey of each and every one of the Internets, I am the only one who read this story and thought…
Ward 4 Interview with Leslie Bedard
Leslie Bedard was born in Saskatchewan and moved to Alberta when she was twelve. Later on, she worked for the Edmonton John Howard Society after attending Grant MacEwan College. She…
Ward 4 Interview with Jane Morgan
Jane Morgan was born in Drumheller, Alberta, and currently lives in Highland Park. She has worked in a variety of jobs including insurance and telecommunications. Since 2004, she has owned…
Ward 8 Interview with Zak Pashak
Zak Pashak currently lives in Sunalta and has so for the last seven years. In 2003, he opened Broken City, which serves as a live music venue. He is also…
TVO’s The Agenda: The Rights of Vulgar Little Cowards – Akaash Maharaj Videocast
In this, my maiden broadcast essay for TVOntario’s The Agenda with Steve Paikin, I argue that freedom of expression is too fundamental a right to be casually abridged, and that…
Smells Like China
Everyone, mark the date on your calendar. Today was the day that we started living in a world where corporate penny-pinching has become so unstoppable that Fisher Price can recall…
This is not my Canada; This is not my Media
There was a time when the pen was mightier than the sword. That was a time when people believed in truth and regarded truth as an independent power and not…
Every country has its own version of the Bush Administration
…and some days I want to expand that and say every jurisdiction does. But lets talk China for a moment. Apparently, the Americans are suddenly concerned that China, having gone…
Canada will be a "pimp"
Canada will be taking the role of a pimp, according to one MP. That’s because the courts have struck down anti-prostitution laws that, while not preventing prostitution, made it very…
A few lessons
As long as Axelrod was helping Obama capture the White House, it was easy to assume both men subscribed to the same worldview… The development shattered the tentative understanding between…
Ward races to watch for this election
With 14 other pseudo mayoral races, there has to be an analysis somewhere of the potential ward races. Here is a breakdown of some of the more crucial races that…
De-mystifying the "Project Samossa" arrests
De-mystifying the “Project Samossa” arrests: Community Advisory from the People’s Commission Networkreceived by email from The People’s Commission, Montreal, September 2010. Montreal, September 2010 The recent arrests associated with the…
Child labour should equal a Commonwealth Games boycott
I think its disgusting that India’s Commonwealth game venues have been built in part by child labour. Call me nuts, but I believe that under no circumstances should a 4…
Yowch
Jesus, two weeks without a single post. That’s a new level of suck for me, I think. Apologies. Real life has intervened in a most obtrusive way. Meanwhile, I laughed…
Stephen Who? at the UN
Last year, Stephen Harper snubbed the UN and went to Tim Horton’s instead. This year, the UN snubbed Stephen Harper and went to Tim Horton’s instead. h/t impolitical
Cons Steal a Page From Nixon’s Playbook
When Daniel Ellsberg leaked the now infamous “Pentagon Papers” in the 1970s, the Nixon gang decided to go after him with a vengeance. Via Wiki: As a response to the…
Suck it up, long-gun owners…
The people have spoken. The Cons lost. Motion: Not to proceed further with C-391 (repeal of the long-gun registry) Yeas – 153 Nays – 151
What to make of the Gun Registry
The existing Federal Long Gun registry is an issue on which I have mixed feelings. To begin with it is a flawed peice of legislation, its startup costs were exhorbitant,…
Let’s hope these small ward forums turn into big ones some day
It’s election time and things are busy. As many of you might know, I am involved with Civic Camp in hosting 15 forums across the city this election. We’ve already…