shutterstock_83447575.jpg Canada's top environmental watchdog official released a damning report today acknowledging the federal government's complete failure to account for the ...
It’s no secret that the Harper Conservatives hate unions. They’ve repeatedly emphasized how the NDP is beholden to Big Labour and tried to force an inquiry into partial union sponsorship…
A few very quick updates since my last commentary on the NDP leadership race...Martin Singh, Nathan Cullen and Paul Dewar are in, while Thomas Mulcair should be shortly (with Phil…
The media seems to be obsessed with the Forum Research polls, the new guru of the polling industry.However, I received a call from them on the Ontario election and phoned…
oth their fake blogs, Enviralment and Envirogy are "undergoing scheduled maintenance". We'll see for how long, and what comes out the other side.Background here.h/t Scott in the comments.
I subscribe to a lot of blogs and news feeds and read a lot in a day. Out of all of these words that cross my eyes, some are worth…
Courtesy of the Globe and Mail. The "report on business" reporter Michael Babad is fulfilling his purpose , deriding the #OccupyWallStreet protests happening in Vancouver, because it will be at…
Democracy is about political equality. To be democratic, a political system must in essence belong to all the people equally, and if it is to belong to all the people…
Available in China only. Sounds crazy to me. Read the story here.
Stephen H. Foerster write, on OER-forum: > The logic is that it's inappropriate for governmentto undercut private industry. There are many cases where it is appropriate forgovernment to, as you…
Christ, what is it with news sources out of Miami? They may be close to the Caribbean, but for all their proximity, they still can’t report on Latin America for…
We took my visiting in-laws to the farmers market last week and bought a bushel of sweet red peppers. My mother-in-law couldn't figure what the heck I was going to…
Pro-Internet community member Valerie Vuillemot recently wrote to Public Safety Minister Vic Toews and Industry Minister Christian Paradis, expressing concerns about usage-based billing (Internet metering) and the impending "Lawful Access"…
Kind of tells you everything you need to know about Tim Hudak.
Conservative MP Russ Hiebert tabled his private member bill in the Commons yesterday, calling for changes to the Income Tax Act to require unions (which are income-tax-exempt under the Act…
Rick Perry is now dropping in the polls, with Mitt Romney taking the lead.I guess having a ranch named "Niggerhead" didn't win him any points. The Tea Partiers would have…
This was making the rounds on Facebook yesterday: FUX didn’t air this. Gee, I wonder why…
Well, you’ve heard that kind of line from labour and the left, but now the IMF seems to have been pretty much won over to the argument that global supply…
I’m indebted to Globe & Mail columnist Doug Saunders for this. I’d like to know what the follow-up is. Until then, I’m withholding judgement on the #fail part. Incidentally, this…
Welcome to the race for the leadership of the federal NDP.And before you launch into your campaign, you would do well to ponder the campaign strategies devised for two recent…
