The similarities between debt crises and currency crises
During the nineties, the predominant form of economic crisis that could hit a nation was the currency crisis whereby the value of a countries currency drops precipitously. Most infamously was…
It’s a body of work that you can’t ever change…
if what you're reading here grips you, holds you, fascinates you, provokes you, emboldens you, pushes you, galvanizes you, discomfits you, tickles you, enrages you so much that you find…
Mulcair is comfortable on the fence
I share in CalgaryGrit’s confusion at Thomas Mulcair’s continued ambivalence about deciding whether to run for the NDP leadership. Perhaps he’s hoping to drag out the media coverage as he…
Monday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to start your week.- Once again, the NDP's popular support is holding up in the face of plenty of predictions to the contrary. But I'm sure we'll hear…
Problem Gambling Prevention Program Comes to N.B.
I was recently contacted by Susan Saundercook, Communications Specialist at the Responsible Gambling Council about a visit to campus today and tomorrow by kts2. The program is about targeting students…
Dippers on point for first CBC political election panel #nlpoli
Give the new Democrats’ Dale Kirby full marks for nailing natural resources minister Shawn Skinner hard over the blatant abuse of taxpayers inherent in having two partisans step down from…
National Post columnist David Frum joins the anti green economy conservative chorus
The truth of finding new renewable energy sources and building the societies and economies of the future around harvesting and processing them cannot be denied. In other words, we evolve…
women’s sex strike ends armed conflict
A whole new approach to peace keeping. http://ow.ly/6yCwI Filed under: Miscellany
A post-weekend update
pem(posted May 20, 2012)/em /p pOne of Friday’s big news items was that a quot;rogue traderquot; at UBS lost the Swiss bank $2 billion.#160; He was apparently led to jail…
The Canadian Manifesto 9: Retribution and the Bottom Line
William Wilberforce (1759-1833) was a British politician, best known for his work to abolish the slave trade. He helped to pass legislation that imposed fines of £100 on shipowners, for…
Relief from forfeiture under the Insurance Act
The Sovereign General Insurance Company v. Walker, 2011 ONCA 597 deals, in obiter, with relief from forfeiture under the Insurance Act:III. Did the motion judge err in granting relief from forfeiture? &#...
NDP does not need to merge with LPC: they already caught the LPC’s leadership-picking disease
New Democrats who are still considering their options include Paul Dewar, Peter Julian, Nathan Cullen, Libby Davies and Robert Chisholm.http://m.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/mulcair-does-the-ndp-leadership-math-but-numbers-dont-add...
The kind of ‘tough on crime’ justice Harper is bringing to Canada
H/T: @RagingTeabagger
University of Calgary Prostitutes Itself To Big Oil & Gas
Canadian journalist Mike DeSousa, who first wrote three years ago about the anti-science group with the Orwellian name “Friends of Science”, who funded a PR blitz meant to cast doubt…
Ontario election: Will the NDP be able to remedy Ontario’s democratic deficit?
With polls showing neither the Liberal nor the Conservative parties being able to secure a firm majority in the coming election, we might be poised for a historic breakthrough in…
It’s bad enough the NDP are letting other candidates run
September 2nd: Thomas Mulcair says he won't run for the leadership of the NDP unless the party agrees to hold its convention in late winter or early spring, because he…
Where Canadians Stand On Palestian State Vote
More results here. I count myself among the 46 per cent. Not that my opinion, or the opinion of a plurality of Canadians, matters much.Oh, and this, in itself, is…
Is the PLQ the Only Viable Opposition to Legault?
According to this Léger Marketing poll, well, yeah - they are.The results without Francoise Legault's Mystery Party as an option has the PLQ leading the Parti Québécois, 31% to 26%,…
Chavez versus Obama
Introduction Two incumbent presidents are running for re-election in 2012, Hugo Chavez in Venezuela and Barack Obama in the United States. What makes these two electoral contests significant is that…
Shorter Lisa Raitt
Strikes are now considered illegitimate and will be crushed by our government. The real quote is just as ominous: "Any work stoppage would negatively impact Canada's economy and threaten our…