Non-voters Don’t Impact a Mandate
I never liked it when it was said federally about the CPC, and I don’t like it being said about the BC Liberals. Counting non-voters into statistics to claim the…
Anybody Heard of the ‘Government Telecommunications and Informatics Service?’
My Duffy post earlier today seems to have drawn the attention of some Ottawa outfit called the Government Telecommunications and Informatics Service. Anyone know anything about them?
barcelona to granada
We are relaxing recuperating in our room in the Hotel Molinas in Granada, in the south of Spain. File this day under all’s well that ends well. Our last night…
Kerry Diotte the front-runner … for now.
For months now, the city has been watching a tedious production called Waiting for Stephen to come to its end — is Mayor Mandel in, or is he out? All…
6003…What You Don’t Hear About Duffy
Is the simple fact that he got into this mess coz he has been the town drunk in Ottawa since the day he arrived in this city. Arnold’s, The Mayflower,…
New ‘Wisdom’ From Pat Robertson
Who knows? With a little modification, Robertson’s advice to the wife who has been cheated on might offer a new spin direction for the Harper regime, especially in its current…
Don’t mourn, organize: lessons from the BC election
Based on the past twelve years, another four under the BC Liberals does not bode well for public education. But that all depends. There is no question that the BC…
6002…Mike Duffy Meet Floyd Mayweather
You are aware that the esteemed Senator representing Kanata-PEI is a bit cash short. That is why the PMO’s boss Nigel Wright had to gift him 90,000.00 . Here is…
BC provincial election lessons
Well, having had my whining rant, I might as well get in on the post mortem. I’m substantially in agreement with Greg Fingas of Accidental Deliberations’ column here, which helped…
Interesting Rationale.
As BCL has noted, Students Against Israeli Apartheid was stripped of it’s status as an approved club at York University, though the reason seems more due to the disruptions caused…
If We’re Going To Do This With Drones, Why Does Anyone Need the F-35?
With the launch yesterday of the X-47B from the deck of the USS George HW Bush, the case for the F-35 just got a lot weaker. The X-47B is a…
10,000 or 20,000 hours?
Malcolm Gladwell introduced the concept of the “10,000-hour rule” in his 2008 book, Outliers. As Wikipedia describes it, “…the key to success in any field is, to a large extent,…
The Price of War
The folks at UpWorthy have published a photo-perspective showing the faces of soldiers taken before, during and after war. Here’s one example. Follow the link above to see the rest.
Twitter Outs the Haters
Check this out. It’s a twitter-based map of racism in the United States. A team of geographers from Humboldt State University has developed a map of the United States which…
Laws for a Country That Holds Itself Above the Law
America has increasingly been turning itself into an outlaw state. It practices indefinite detention without charge or trial. It resorts to torture. It violates foreign sovereignty to kill as it…
Wish I Had Friends to Fork out $90,000 Just Like That
It not be illegal, but it sure is fishy: Mike Duffy had his debts paid off by a friend of Stephen Harper’s to the tune of more than $90,000. This…
More on the Mayor
After I posted about my telephone call with Mayor Rob Ford a few weeks back, I started getting calls from one of the mayor’s aides. He left pleasant messages and…
They Have Re-Elected Their "Liberal" Lapdog – Now They’re Coming For Our Coast
It will probably be sooner rather than later before we find out whether Christy Clark will become British Columbia’s Judas Goat to the Northern Gateway and Kinder Morgan pipeline/supertanker fiascos.…
10 Reasons Canada Needs to Rethink the Tar Sands
As a Canadian it blows my mind that we can have the second largest deposits of oil in the world, but our government remains billions in debt and one in…