3962…Shields’ In The House And You Know It
Sam Shields that is.From the Green Bay Packers.As you probably are aware Super Bowl winners receive championship rings. Big, ugly, impressive especially to the guys at the bar when you…
Craig Chandler Supports the Liberals
This week's sign of the apocalypse - an e-mail sent out today by Craig Chandler to all PGIB members:From: "PGIB Head Office" Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 11:33:02 -0600To: Craig…
Shades of Green: Parenting in an Uncertain Age
When Elijah was four years old, he wanted to dress as a polar bear for Halloween trick-or-treating so his mother, Sandra, sewed him a costume from an old white bed…
Compare and contrast: election policy edition
Compare the New Democrat “policy” announcements on the fishery and shipbuilding, slipped out there last week with the Liberal one on health care and seniors, announced on Monday morning at…
Conservatism: not a politics
…but a diagnosis. I’d missed this one: it appeared last week. But you should read every word of it, not merely my excerpt. Anyone who thinks we can sit down…
Scientist, You May Speak Freely
Quite the kerfuffle erupted last week over the federal government muzzling a leading fisheries scientist whose work could shed light on the reasons for the crashing of salmon stocks off…
Happy Civic Holiday… and why Obama did the deal he did.
To all of you in Canada who get this first Monday off, whether it’s called Civic Holiday or whatever, all the best to you. As for politics on this day,…
Platform pieces
I haven't even read this yet, so I'll save substantive commentary until after my yard work is done. But there is a bit of chatter about it on twitter (check…
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Teddy Roosevelt and Abe Lincoln Respond to Obama’s Capitulation
What startled visitors at Mount Rushmore this morning.
There’s no danger of Murdoch style press scandals in Canada! Really! Got that? Now go back to sleep
Gotcha! Britain’s Private Eye magazine satirizes the Murdoch Fambly Saga across the Pond. Nothing like the Eye in Canada, more’s the pity! (Where is Michael Bate now that we need…
Is The Clark/Campbell/Falcon/Klingon Government Cheating On HST Sales Job?
WouldYouBuyAUsedCarFromThisGovernmentVilleIn my opinion, based on their words, deeds and actions, they are.And, in the opinion of Sean Holman, it doesn't even matter any more one way or the other because…
Debt deal is Okay!
The debt deal that is currently being rushed to in the last few days before a default. This deal supports 1 trillion in cuts first over the next decade then…
Dreaming big: Canadian self-government must be preceded by reforms.
The Calgary Herald’s idea that international governments should negotiate with Canada as one government to another, rather than returning Canada to colonial status where the country can benefit from the…
Dreaming big: Canadian self-government must be preceded by reforms.
The Calgary Herald’s idea that international governments should negotiate with Canada as one government to another, rather than returning Canada to colonial status where the country can benefit from the…
Dreaming big: Canadian self-government must be preceded by reforms.
The Calgary Herald’s idea that international governments should negotiate with Canada as one government to another, rather than returning Canada to colonial status where the country can benefit from the…
Dreaming big: Canadian self-government must be preceded by reforms.
The Calgary Herald’s idea that international governments should negotiate with Canada as one government to another, rather than returning Canada to colonial status where the country can benefit from the…
Maybe it’s just me
…but today’s National Post carries a headline that made me do a doubletake to find out if it was about a real story or just an analogy for the Great…
Welcome to Rob Ford’s Toronto
Although there certainly wasn't a lot of merriment around the gravy fountain at my election night party last October, the one consolation I took from Rob Ford's victory was that…
Monday Morning Links
This and that for your long weekend reading.- I'm not ordinarily a huge fan of spending much time in the present focusing on the past. But Dan Gardner's suggested label…