Bad media: Smart Meters
I joined Angus Reid Forums a while ago as a way to do two things I like: Making money and giving opinions. One survey that has come up a number…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Trish Hennessy points out that there's a debt crisis facing many Canadians that will only be exacerbated by public-sector slashing:1.57 TrillionCanadians’ household debt in…
Andrea Horwath’s story “stripped of all credibility”
I’m not the only one who thinks Horwath needs to be held accountable for the rather inaccurate account of her son’s recent E.R. visit. Here’s what Bill Kelly, from CHML,…
Get ready for a minority provincial government, poll says
I'm in two minds about a minority. While I (obviously) prefer a Liberal majority I do recognize some good things have come from minorities, especially Liberal/NDP minorities. That said, with…
Turul market photo
Turul / On the market – Documentary & Street Photos – Vaido’s Photoblog. Filed under: Beautiful Tagged: estonia photo
McVety Conflates His Confusion With “Canadian Values”
(On September 28th, The National Post ran an ad from Charles McVety‘s “Institute for Canadian Values,” which tried to allege that LGBT-positive education would confuse children about their gender. This…
Huffington Post: Privacy law amendment foreshadows Lawful Access
From Huffington Post It's not exactly Canada’s very own Patriot Act, but a Harper government amendment to the country's privacy law has some experts seeing shadows of the controversial U.S.…
The Price Of Moral Clarity
Historians will not be kind to Michael Ignatieff. They will point to the collapse of the Liberal Party under his leadership -- although, in truth, it was a long time…
Andrea Horwath has another chance to show leadership but fails. Again.
Yesterday it was revealed that NDP candidate Helmi Charif had posted on his Facebook page that Liberal and Tory governments would allow kids to starve to death – equating the…
Star Article on Shark Finning
Having written previously on the inhumane and ecologically disastrous practice of shark-finning, I was pleased to discover in my morning read of The Toronto Star an article about the practice…
An Unconventional Performance
The New Hot 5, a New Orleans-style jazz band, plays on a small hill in France to an unusual, but attentive, audience: Have a great Saturday!
I got in an actual fight
Yesterday afternoon I was walking down Merivale Road, nursing a migraine, when the guy walking in front of me grabbed an election sign out of the grass and tossed it…
What are they hiding?
Recently MPGuy Caron called on the Commons public account committee to resurrect14 studies that were left unfinished whenParliament fell last March. Seven of the 14 are complete and justneed to…
Autism Reality Check: Huffington Post Now Misrepresents Autism Disorders
It is 6:40 am (Atlantic) time here in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. Conor, my 6 feet tall, 15 year old son with Autistic Disorder, is now relatively quiet after several…
My Bad
Storseth's private Member's bill to repeal section 13 of the Human Rights Act (C-304) was indeed introduced Friday. And it looks like an act, not a mere motion. I was…
Traffic for Election Week 2 #nlvotes #nlpoli
Traffic patterns are information that can tell you something. The most popular post in this second week of the election is about an alternative for Muskrat Falls. The next most…
Hate to Say I Told You So…
"As I mentioned when I talked about that, I said there were a number of backbench MPs I believed existed in the Conservative Party who would not take the leader's…
What a packed Friday looks like
Normally Fridays are pretty dull and useful only for burying embarrassing reports from the government. Not so yesterday – it was an extremely packed day that kicked off with that…