By-election Olympics
It’s superficial, of course, to always declare political “winners” and “losers” the morning after. But people (me included) like to do it. It’s fun. And, in electoral terms, the fact…
Problem-solving psychology
Writer Ray Grigg urges Canadian government to action in problem-solving current and future environmental challenges. Grigg writes, “The psychological dynamics of problem solving are well known. When a problem is…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Frances Woolley rightly challenges the conventional wisdom that there’s no such thing as a popular and efficient tax: Few taxes generate enthusiastic popular…
Pipelines, Nuclear Waste, Lac Mégantic: All Symptoms of Energitis
The front pages of the newspapers and the headlines on the news programs make me very sad this morning. The tragedy of the train explosion at Lac Mégantic continues (What…
Sun Media: More Closures To Come?
At our paper we are counting the days until they come to lock the doors. There is no fight left in anyone in our building. When, not if Metroland comes…
He Doesn’t Get It
Tom Walkom writes that Stephen Harper doesn’t get the new world economy. Like Dr. Frankenstein’s monster, the creature he helped create has run amok and is trashing his home. If…
Super Thursday By-Elections: Winners & Losers
Last night’s five provincial by-elections were a wild right, with a couple of surprises and three more-or-less expected results in five suburban ridings all held previously by Liberal bigwigs which,…
Home Alarms Killing Innocent Victims?
Joel Matlin’s Home Alarms Killing Innocent People? Having a heart-attack? A grease fire? A hard time getting up after being crushed by a vehicle whilst on your bike? Don’t worry—emergency…
Home Alarms Killing Innocent Victims?
Joel Matlin’s Home Alarms Killing Innocent People? Having a heart-attack? A grease fire? A hard time getting up after being crushed by a vehicle whilst on your bike? Don’t worry—emergency…
Home Alarms Killing Innocent Victims?
Joel Matlin’s Home Alarms Killing Innocent People? Having a heart-attack? A grease fire? A hard time getting up after being crushed by a vehicle whilst on your bike? Don’t worry—emergency…
The Rob Ford crack video: the truth
Quote: “A Crown attorney on the Project Traveller case, Paul Renwick, would not answer questions. Daniel Brown, Siad’s lawyer, said in an email that ethical and professional obligations prevent him…
Come on Baby, Do the Locomotion
Capable of doing zero-to-sixty in less than ten seconds, the Flannigan Repto-Buggy was a big seller right after President Rutherford B. Hayes started building the Great Chicken Highway. Thousands of…
Byelections fallout: Will PC’s Tim Hudak still be PC leader in September?
It was an interesting night last night. The Ontario Liberals held onto 2 of their seats – in Scarborough and in Ottawa (despite gloomy polls – more on that later),…
They Awoke, And Their Subways Had All Crumbled To Dust
Remember, nobody…not the Feds, not the Hudak Tories, not the Wynne Liberals…promised a penny of the funding required to actually transform the SRT replacement from an LRT to a train…
Whatever happened to Ryan Cleary? #nlpoli
The story is the kind of thing that used to set the arch-nationalist Ryan Cleary screaming about the ignorance of mainlanders and tearing at his clothes over the latest proof…
6298…Classy Conservative
This time it is Laurie Hawn, the Stephen Harperite in Edmonton-Centre. MP Hawn, upon hearing that Paul Bernardo, the psycho killer from Southern Ontario, wants an upgrade in his living…
6297…Buffalo Bills Fan Chokes Again
That would be Fort Erie’s own, if they haven’t disavowed him yet, Tim Hudak. He is the soon-to-be former leader of the Progressive Conservatives in Ontario. He sucks. Five by-elections…
Campaign Diary Volume 5: Praise, political priorities and poetry
Yours Truly visiting the Texas House of Representatives in the State Capitol building in Austin, Texas – and thinking about what to say to Ryan Hastman on EdmontionPolitics.com. Below: The…