Nymwars
I have deleted my Google+ account, as well as my Google profile — in protest and with extreme prejudice. Based on its real name only policy, I cannot in good…
alberta candidate nomination updates – august 2011.
I have updated the list of declared and nominated candidates hoping to stand in the next provincial election: Lethbridge-West: Shannon Phillips is seeking the NDP nomination in this constituency. Ms.…
End of the road
I don't suppose the Canadian Wheat Board ever thought there was really any hope. But they're going ahead and doing the responsible thing by holding a plebiscite on whether farmers…
pc leadership candidates wade into education politics.
Earlier this week I had the privilege of sharing some of my thoughts about the Progressive Conservative leadership contest with delegates at the Alberta Teachers’ Association (ATA) summer conference in…
Annual Policy Assembly. Oshawa, August 27th, 2011
Sisters and Brothers: As previously announced, the SPO annual Policy Assembly will be held this year in Oshawa on Saturday, August 27th, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. All party…
Short ‘n’ Stubby: Ms. Manx looks at London
If the Stumpy Cat is meowing and pawing at my leg, I know there is something she wants me to address. And sure enough, our cyber-kitty friend has found several…
Send Canada’s PM a Message — On a Square of Toilet Paper!
It seems Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper has a problem and spends an inordinate amount of time in the bathroom, most particularly when things aren’t going the way he wants…
Rogers LTE and 4G: Beyond Sales Puffery?
This blog post comes courtesy of Mike Fujimoto, PIAC's summer student intern. I hope to add occasional pieces on the open internet from a telecom-regulatory-consumer-advocate perspective and not to make…
Delaware River Basin Commission and Army Corps Sued Over Fracking Regulations
c959fd30f9d31481454a632d5a90-medium.jpg Last week, environmental watchdog groups including the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA), Riverkeeper, the Delaware Riverkeeper Network and th...
Aggression during G20 perpetrated by police, but demonstrations criminalized by Harper & McGuinty, or “When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called “the People’s Stick.”- Mikhail Bakunin
In my previous post I wrote about one of the McGuinty government’s most egregious hours: McGuinty’s management of “security” at last year’s G20 Summit meetings in Toronto. In today’s Star,…
From The Heart To The Crisis In East Africa
The crisis in East Africa is only a world away if the actions of your heart are limited to the confines of your chest. Of course if you can move…
at 99Designs
Every so often I submit a design for a logo to various contests at 99Designs. They have this odd rule which hasn’t been satisfactorily explained. I understand why, if the…
Toronto G20: The only organized agression was perpetrated by police
Toronto News: Aggression during G20 rally ‘perpetrated by police,’ judge rules - thestar.comAlthough we now have a judge's statements that the police were unjustified aggressors on the weekend of the…
A Vote for “Rick Parry” is a Vote for a Better America Tomorrow!
Stephen Colbert answers the question, “What will you do with all that unrestricted SuperPAC money?” with the launch of a TV commercial urging voters in Iowa to cast their ballots…
Polls
Hello, Teddy here. I've prepared a graphic that combines the two recent polls (that Volkov posted on earlier) as well some past results to help even things out. Note that…
Remember, marijuana is ‘bad’. Build those prisons!
How can one not be enraged? How can one not be educated by this?An eighteen-year-old Floridian is pulled over for riding a bike without a night light. A small amount…