The Day After: Majority, Left-Turn and Sovereignty
The implications of last night’s election are by now a series un-knowable knows and hopeless speculations. I am going to make some comments based on a mix of the two.…
Green Party of Canada: An election result with mixed blessings
Elizabeth May has been cemented in place as the Green Party leader, BUT this means the Green Party is finished with the coming elimination of the per vote subsidy. Oh…
Thank you
Dear friends, It has been a privilege to run as the New Democrat candidate for Edmonton-Leduc. I'm honoured to have received the support of almost 11,5 thousand of voters in…
I’ll be Back
I promise. Just a little politicked out.
Russell’s Nightmare
Canada changed last night. It was a change which voters made consciously and deliberately. In doing so, they ignored the warning of one of Canada's best known constitutional scholars. A…
A future Liberal Party may want to consider…
There’s a lot of personal tragedy in elections, and it couldn’t get any worse for Michael Ignatieff. He’s finally succumbed to wounds meted out by the most vile, relentless attack…
A new Canada, what will happen?
Here are the results as of this morning from the CBC’s Canada Votes 2011: The Conservative majority is obviously bad for me, but I have to say I’m not unhappy…
Another silver lining
Soon Sheila Fraser can release her report on the Conservative's spending for the G8! Yip-pee.
Another silver lining
Soon Sheila Fraser can release her report on the Conservative's spending for the G8! Yip-pee.
Harper’s centralization of the democratic process: the litmus test for the next four years
Leaving all policy discussion aside, one of the most disheartening aspects of the last five years of minority government under Harper has been a consistent erosion of the adversarial process…
It just happened here
To paraphrase Sinclair Lewis: When fascism comes to Canada, it will come wrapped in a flag and carrying a hockey stick. Coach Harper won his majority last night thanks to…
Notes on open government, open data and open pedagogies
Talk about open government/data and open pedagogies including underlying philosophy, practices, benefits and challenges with specific reference to NRC So let’s talk about open government and open data. Geodata –…
Coming to Grips with the Election Implications
So here we are, in a “stable majority government” in times of enormous uncertainty in the world. Democracy has spoken and the collective wisdom of an ever diminishing number of…
A Few Thoughts on What Happened
Now I’ve had a bit of time to digest what happened last night, but before I get to reading other people’s post-mortems on the campaign I want to offer a…
Election thoughts.
I haven’t yet seen the popular vote counts, but my initial impressions from last night are: -It is possible to attract progressive voters to the polls. -It is possible to…
Election thoughts.
I haven't yet seen the popular vote counts, but my initial impressions from last night are:-It is possible to attract progressive voters to the polls.-It is possible to find success…
Election thoughts.
I haven’t yet seen the popular vote counts, but my initial impressions from last night are: -It is possible to attract progressive voters to the polls. -It is possible to…
The Mumpsimus Blog – Election results for 2011
Conservative: 167 (majority and a stunning win, 39.6% of the popular vote) NDP: 102 (now the official opposition for the 1st time, 30.6% of the popular vote) Liberal: 34 (a…
Hard is Easy, Soft is Hard
Partial summary of presentation by Terry Anderson and George Siemens of Jon Dron's preconference workshop. The topic is basically around finding the right balance between Moodle and alternatives. We began…