Transitions
Well, I’ve moved to Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue. I was thinking of changing the name of this blog to “Feminist Mom in Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue,” but I’m still on the island of Montreal so I…
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Conservative Party Workers Fraudulently Posing as PMO Staffers, "Elections Centre"?
In a letter to the Chief Electoral Officer, Marc Mayrand, Liberal MP Marlene Jennings asks him to look into allegations of the Conservative party soliciting donations from Conservative party members…
Light Rail or Bus Only – Causation or Correlation
If you haven’t checked out HumanTransit blog, please do so! From his blog, Jarrett Walker is an international consultant in public transit network design and policy. He has been a…
Disgust
Well, I suppose I’ve put this off long enough. There’s one word that sums up why I haven’t been blogging lately: disgust. It crept up slowly and finally and reached…
Cheliak bilingual a year ago, but not any longer?
If it were not apparent that the Harper government does not believe in the independence and expertise of public servants, there is almost no doubt about it following the removal…
In Memoriam
Matthew Simmons died last week, and it’s a loss to the peak oil advocacy network. It was only after his death that I started to peek around his website —…
Welcome to the last ditch
That’s the last line of one of Gwynne Dyer’s latest columns: Before the current recession, global emissions of greenhouse gases were growing at almost 3 percent per year, and they…
Let’s Make the Census Crisis as Big as Prorogation
With Jack Layton calling for an emergency debate when the House reconvenes, we can provide support by joining the facebook group advocating the retention of the mandatory long form census.…
I have been doing this too long
So I have, fitfully, found semi-regular employment where I get to write online in an informal fashion. I would normally call it blogging, except that other people keep calling it…
All you need to know
NY Times writer Ross Douthat on the proposed City Hall mosque: By global standards, Rauf may be the model of a “moderate Muslim.” But global standards and American standards are…
Clement’s version of robust and reliable data
On the CBC Radio program The House, Tony Clement stated today that there would be no further census concessions. The reason it seems is that Clement believes that he “…
Why we should welcome boatful of Tamil refugees into Canada
Why we should welcome boatful of Tamil refugees into Canadaby Harsha Walia, from Vancouver Sun, August 14, 2010. From the Komagata Maru carrying 376 Punjabi passengers and the SS St.…
Somedays, "war looming in the Middle East" isn’t even news
So Jeff Goldberg has a new article out in the Atlantic about how Israel is going to attack Iran next spring. Except, no, that’s not really what it’s about. It’s…
Project Management and making the Case for a Stadium Site
Project management is the discipline of planning, organizing, and managing resources to bring about the successful completion of specific project goals and objectives. I personally think of project management as…
Location, Location, Location – West Harbour CFL-PanAM Stadium
If you haven’t been following this saga in Hamilton, here are few links: Interview with Ti-Cats owner Bob Young Overview article from the Hamilton Spectator This isn’t going to be…
Tony Clement shows very worrying incompetence
In his interview earlier today with Evan Solomon on Power and Politics, Tony Clement showed two worrying signs of incompetence when attempting to establish the credibility of his new voluntary…
‘Fixing’ what isn’t Broken: Tampering with the Census
I have been startled this last few weeks to witness the extent to which a seemingly esoteric subject, the census, has become a political and conversational issue during the dog…
Transport Canada = Medieval Theologians
Canada has an addiction to rule making. Thus spake Joseph Brean, National Post libertarian dude. That’s right. Our penchant for making rules to prevent future disasters based on statistics about…
Catholics Oppose Gay Marriage
Big news there, I suppose. They have a website though, now. Their points, in order. Natural marriage is the foundation of a civilised society. My tendency here is to simply…
Stiffed with the Bill: A Private Banquet at Civil Society’s Expense
“With a stroke of the pen, a government can destroy the social safety net built carefully by generations.”– John Hilary, Executive Director of the War on Want Left: A trade…