After a long weekend spent driving around our fair province, it was a pleasure to return home and bike into the office this morning. Even a mild spattering of rain…
(After this, I may just go ahead and write that Israel thing I've had kicking around in my head for a few years. While I'm stepping on landmines, I might…
Monday, May 30, 2011 BC's Court of Appeal has sided with the West Moberly First Nations in req...
Fortis Inc. (FTS-T) announced Monday it will buy Central Vermont Public Service Corporation. CVPS serves 160,000 customers throughout the state. This is the first American purchase for Fortis, a company…
Each week, Wise Law Blog reviews recent decisions from the Ontario Court of Appeal. It was a bit of a slow week at the Court, so we've highlighted only once…
Imagine my surprise at learning that I am the treasurer of the freshly minted “Canadians for Boycotting Arab and Iranian Goods” organization – CBAIG for short. According to a news…
Here's a gander at what one fellow blogger put on his blog recently:Its fun to watch the Liberals scream FIRE over the NDP and Jack Layton's comments on the constitution.…
Briony Penn, 2008 Liberal candidate in Saanich-Gulf Islands with some post-election thoughts: On the evening of May 2, along with the majority of Canadians, I was stunned. “Like winning bingo…
Why he looks so happy? Close to $140,000 a year plus many perks:Senators are eligible for retirement at age 55 and receive 75 percent of their salary as a pension.…
Apparently, if you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it… at least, 39.62% of the Canadians who took the time to vote believe it — all of it.
A new website tackles the disaster that is Muskrat Flls proposed by Premier Kathy Dunderdale. Amazing what you can do, if you want to. Predictable Update: In the CBC story…
I have noticed a marked increase in the amount of traffic from right wingers that I have been getting on Twitter lately. I won't call them trolls because to me…
In case you missed it, the Ontario Progressive Conservative party had a convention this weekend. There was a lot of, shall we say, extraneous stuff that was going on that…
Popular music is something of a fixture in political campaigns, both fictional and real. “You are my sunshine” and “Man of constant sorrow” turn up in O brother, where art…
Showing the NDP at 33%, the Conservatives at 38%, and the Liberals at 15% (!). This would be groundbreaking... if Abacus didn't beat them to the punch already.The further boost…
We at the Common Sense Canadian will be dealing with the Site C project in some depth and from the outset we would like to acknowledge the tremendous work and…
Our platform was launched on May 25th in Toronto, since then Mike Schreiner has been touring the province outlining the Green Party's vision for Ontario. The GPO plan tackles the…
Reading this piece on more lack of transparency from our government, I was struck by one line in particular, something that should concern us all because it negates even the…
As the results began trickling in on Canada’s 41st federal election, it quickly became clear that it was to be both the worst of nights and the best of nights.…
The Review I want to Read of “What Technology Wants”
A few weeks ago I finished "What Technology Wants" by Kevin Kelly. For those unfamiliar with Kelly (as I was) he was one of the co-founders of Wired magazine and…