Two Polls, Two Stories
Let's start with the good news: a Forum Research poll shows the PCs plummeting to John Tory lows in Toronto, sitting at just 24% of decided voters. McGuinty's Liberals sit…
Let's start with the good news: a Forum Research poll shows the PCs plummeting to John Tory lows in Toronto, sitting at just 24% of decided voters. McGuinty's Liberals sit…
509983main_adjusted_annual_temperature_anomalies_final.gif Readers of my posts over the last half year will be familiar with the phenomenon of motivated reasoning, in which people’s subcons...
New Democrat candidate George Murphy is being accused of breaking the province’s election finance laws Murphy’s chief financial officer sent out an e-mail soliciting donations for Murphy’s campaign in the…
Geoff Morell.jpg Last week, BP America hired former Department of Defense spokesman, Geoff Morrell, as its head of communications. The move sheds light on the central tenet of American natio...
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter:Lawyer turns topless dancer to pay the bills - MSNBChttp://goo.gl/uknZmMan opens fire in Arkansas court, is killed by police -http://goo.gl/jrrWNMore…
Good news for Ontario NDP. Its safe to vote NDP in Toronto! In fact you are likely to better than you have in years if current trend continues. Read new…
Miracle worker Tim Hudak has taken his lead in Toronto and inverted it.Way to go Mr. Hudak!You're number three!WFDS
Such a huge and rapid drop suggests to me the electorate's view is unstable. Which means Hudak can still turn it around, especially with the debate ahead. But but but…
We all know how well the four time Super Bowl losers do in the big game.They choke.Tim Hudak would have been a great Buffalo Bill.WFDS
They/we snuck into the Rugby World Cup and now this!My Facebook and real world friend Rodney Dewey Berg tells me that Canada beat Tonga 25 to 20.Any given Sunday.WFDS
In the wake of this past weekend's 911 memorials, Lawrence Martin asks a question which some might consider heresy:How long is America going to be held hostage to what happened…
In case you missed it last week, my post on advertising and propaganda is running on Straight Goods. If you haven't seen it, I hope you'll give it a read.…
My classes resume today, my third year of four, fifth term of eight. I've been dreading this for weeks, but for the past few days, the dread has been overwhelming.…
Let's keep it real, politicians are forever exaggerating, downplaying, even misrepresenting on occasion, all in the name of projecting a subjective truth that speaks to self interest. This reality partially…
While the gospel of the right-wing extols selfish individualism in which we worry only about our own well-being, this video of a dramatic rescue by a group of ordinary citizens…
Several boxes containing over 20,000 pages of evidence were delivered to the International Criminal Court (ICC) Tuesday in The Hague in a move to begin an investigation of Pope Benedict…
I’m torn on this idea. On one hand, I’d be really happy for my Dad to still be around for the singularity. On the other hand, I’m not happy about…
Another credible pollster – Forum Research – decided to take a poll specifically in Toronto, where conservative mayor Rob Ford and federal Conservatives had major breakthroughs of seats for varying…
Yesterday, I posted this about Andrea Horwath ordering her candidates to stop “trading on” Jack Layton’s name. And to stop trying to “benefit from his legacy.” So I was very…