Some post-election thoughts.
Some articles with better insight than I can provide: The Liberal 34. Renewing the Liberal Party: Leadership. The Liberal Party: What went wrong and where to next? Election Post Mortem:…
Dissecting the 2011 vote
Having reaffirmed once again my inability at making accurate predictions, I am going to offer now my very personal reading of the results of the general election held in Canada…
The Perils of “Strategic” Voting
Several Toronto Star and Globe and Mail columnists have suggested that the Conservative majority resulted from too little strategic voting for the Liberals. In every federal election that I can…
TFSAs and progressive savings policies
With Harper's majority secured, it is quite likely that the popular Tax Free Savings Accounts (TFSA's) will double the allowable contributions to $10k per year by 2014. There is a…
Reforming the Liberal Party: At the top, part one
In my last reform post I touched on reforming the Liberal Party from a leadership perspective. Today, I'd like to touch on reforms from a party structure, procedure and philosophy…
Rick Salutin on the NDP Surge
Always an original thinker, Rick Salutin offers a very interesting explanation for the record number of NDP candidates elected last Monday.Recommend this Post
Who is Stephen Harper and Where did his Party come from: The Remaking of Canadian Conservatism
As in the piece I posted on the historic demise of the Liberals, this piece deals, not with the recent election, but with the transformation of Canadian conservatism and the…
Who is Stephen Harper and Where did his Party come from: The Remaking of Canadian Conservatism
As in the piece I posted on the historic demise of the Liberals, this piece deals, not with the recent election, but with the transformation of Canadian conservatism and the…
Who is Stephen Harper and Where did his Party come from: The Remaking of Canadian Conservatism
As in the piece I posted on the historic demise of the Liberals, this piece deals, not with the recent election, but with the transformation of Canadian conservatism and the…
Who is Stephen Harper and Where did his Party come from: The Remaking of Canadian Conservatism
As in the piece I posted on the historic demise of the Liberals, this piece deals, not with the recent election, but with the transformation of Canadian conservatism and the…
Autism and the Stigma of Intellectual Disability: Some CDC Facts
CDC: Intelligence quotient (IQ) of children aged 8 years with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) for whom psychometric test data were available,* by site and sex (IQ) score-Autism and Developmental…
Did Gary Mason Just Say Christy Clark Has Connections To The BC Rail Scandal?
AllTheCastingsThatFitAspersionsVilleWhy yes, I believe he did. It was a classic, drive-by from the man known by the Pythons who walk among us as he who once tried to eat Chichester…
Slut Walks take back the power
When police officer Michael Sanguinetti was giving York University law students tips on personal safety, he said the following:"You know, I think we're beating around the bush here... I've been…
Real change isn’t forced top-down
I'm working on a post in my ongoing Liberal Party reform series, and the theme today is how the mentality of the party is too top-down, instead of bottom-up. When…
A follow-up to the on-going fracas over Mulcair questions
Impolitical weighs in. She criticises the pigeon-holing of Mulcairs words regarding the photos. Hopefully, her opinion helps to dull the more partisan Liberal Party commentators’ attacks on what Mulcair had…
Time Flies And So Does Conor – Dad’s Run Jump Fly Boy
The first two pictures show Conor today at 15 and the last four show him 4 years ago at 11. He is no longer the baby faced boy in the…
Awesomeness from the Inbox
Nation, this crossed my desk recently from a really nifty blog/social experiment called One Hundred Jobs, and it's too good to pass up. One Hundred Jobs: Job 87: Get Yer…
Forget the book – I’m waiting for the TV movie…
As predicted by us local media types a few weeks ago, musing as we were over a beer on a Friday afternoon at the Huron Club, former Simcoe-Grey Member of…