Apple and the Rest
I’ve always been an Apple loyalist. Anything that had that simple, sexy, half eaten apple on it, I was buying. iPods, Macs, iPhones, iPads, you name it. But recently, I’ve…
$800 Million in Budget Cuts: Bleeding Doesn’t Make Anything or Anyone Healthier
If you want to try to lose an unpopular announcement, you make it at the end of the week. That's what the Quebec government did last Friday when $800 million…
Ontario vote compass: silly questions
I’m only 8 questions into the CBC Ontario Vote Compass and have already tried answering several questions as Neutral because the premise seems so ridiculous. I didn’t continue answering the…
New Record or Not, the Arctic Sea Ice Alarm Bells Keep Ringing
N_daily_extent_hires.png Last week, the National Snow and Ice Data Center came out with the estimate that we did not quite set a record for the minimum extent of Arctic sea…
General Walt, Answer Me This
So you wracked up a million bucks worth of jet taxi fares. Fine, maybe it was just a mistake, an error of judgment. Forget about reimbursement. Military types aren't paid…
Racoons in a kitchen
The guy in the video thinks he can talk the racoons into leaving his kitchen. He is totally misguided. For racoons he must remember the African proverb “speak softly and…
Layton’s desk to be left empty
http://www.parl.gc.ca/ParlBusiness/House/SeatingPlan/SeatingPlan.pdfSeat 164 is where the Leader of the Opposition would normally sit (directly across from Harper)
Deep thought
If there's any more important qualification for a Harper Con cabinet member than being described as "incredibly stupid" with a "colossal lack of judgment", it's a willingess to mislead the…
Greta Van Susteren takes on Daily Caller’s Tucker Carlson
Greta's not happy with Tucker because the latter's blog featured a mysogenic post, which quoted Mike Tyson saying sexual things about Greta's BFF Sarah Palin. Greta is right to call…
Toronto: Mayor Ford Retreat, Tory Vote Meltdown
Ah, I love the smell of self-inflicted Tory panic on a Monday morning. It seemed only a year ago that things were heading towards Tories at all levels of government.…
Randy Hillier: “Nasty”
This is what Tim Hudak’s Tea Party Tories bring to the table. Stay classy, Randy.
Future or no?
The fact that Harper, Obama, and Netanyahu have made it clear that they will not recognize a Palestinian State finally makes it clear that the real barrier to peace in…
Draconian measures may be a bit too much, but will Harper’s new crime omnibus bill really make …
It is true, according to a recent memo sent out to the Conservative caucus by the Prime Minister's office, that there have been over 2 million crimes reported in Canada…
In His Own Words: Bob Rae On The Permanent Leadership
After Sheila Copps appeared on the September 7th edition of Power and Politics, Evan Solomon assembled the Power Panel to discuss her view that Bob Rae should be able to…
First Reading of Web of Angels
This was on my desk when I arrived home yesterday. I’d spent most of the day at the first McLaughlin Literary Festival in Oshawa, all of my wired energy drained…
A vote for the NDP is…a vote for the NDP
Apparently Ontario's political pundits feel the need to get one more campaign's worth of use out of their stale old Lib vs. Con spin. So let's clear things up as…
Next year country, Year 5
Yes, we should be due for the Cons' annual declaration that they'll get around to regulating greenhouse gas emissions from the tar sands, just not this year....right about now.
And So It Begins
As The House of Commons opens its doors after the summer recess, John Ibbitson writes in this morning's Globe and Mail that:Nothing on the fall agenda should surprise anyone. Most…
The Scourge of Phantom Crime
Readers of this blog may know that I place a great deal of stock in critical thinking. Although I am sure that I stray from it on a regular basis,…