With All Due Respect
I'd like to see if I can dip my toe in this pool, without getting scolded for being disrespectful. Mark Garneau has thrown his hat into the interim leader ring,…
May Responds to Expense Query
Elizabeth May in a tweet just now responded to my query last week about travel expenses for a recent coast to coast trip May took to attend a memorial. @ElizabethMay…
Making The World Safe For The Wealthy
The pledge was pretty straightforward. This, after all, was the government of the "steady" hand. The Conservative platform proclaimed that: "Through accelerated reductions in government spending, a re-elected Stephen Harper…
Blogger Ate The Posts…
TheCloudIsEphemeralPrintEverythingVilleSorry everyone. All PGrey bye-bye election stuff is gone.I'll try and piece some of it back together if time and/or inclination permits. _____Update: Holy doodles!....They're back!!! (see below)...Comments still g...
Stephen Harper – Predictions
Let’s see if any of the following are true: 1. Stephen Harper is bipolar 2. His wife, Laureen, has been having an affair with an RCMP officer 3. Laureen is…
Tim Hudak vs. Frank Klees on green energy
With the Hudak attack on Ontario's economy and jobs continuing today, one of Hudak's most senior MPP's demonstrated how little faith he really has in Hudak's wreckless rookie scheming.http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/990868--tory-mpp...
If The LINO’s Have Lost The West of Blanca Crowd…
AllTheBallotBoxesThatFitVille...They really are doomed. On the night of the Point Grey Bye-Bye, I wondered what would happen west of Blanca which, essentially is all the high end condos and townhouses…
How Can We Get Better Public Schools?
Well, the first thing we can do is carve out some time to ponder, imagine, dream, inhale, exhale, chat, brainstorm, breathe some more, and forget for a minute that we’ve…
Insite comes to Ottawa
The Harper Government TM is still attempting to shut down Insite, Canada’s only supervised injection site. The case is now before the Supreme Court of Canada, which is where I…
Binnie and Charron Retire
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE OTTAWA, May 13, 2011 – The Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, Chief Justice of Canada, announced today that Justice Ian Binnie and Justice Louise Charron have written to…
Election Post Mortem: The NDP
I don't have much to add to the post-election discussion on the NDP's past, present, and future, as most of the key points have already been beaten to death. But…
When Conventional Wisdom Becomes Codswallop…
AllThePuffed-UpPunditryThatFitsVille....You get stuff like this:...Why was it (the Point Grey byelection) so close? As the night wore on, I started getting emails, tweets and text messages from frightened Liberals —…
Personally I Blame Harper for This #0006
So good old Tony Clement, our Industry Ministry, is going to invite the Oily Bigwigs to Ottawa to explain to Canadians why oil/gas prices go up and go down,… but…
What You Eat Matters
Jason Schwartzman cares about what you eat. Well, at the very least he has narrated a new short film on the importance of what we eat. The film looks like…
The Mumpsimus Blog – The end of the world, a little earlier than expected…
Apparently the world will end on October 21, 2011. That's exactly five months after the "rapture", which takes place this month on May 21, when, the site says, Jesus will…
Participate: 2011 Queer of the Year Contest
For some light-hearted fun with serious prizes to be won, consider entering the 2011 Queer of the Year Contest, an annual international competition open to anyone in the world, of…
Wind Welfare Warriors Just Don’t Get It (But Thank God They’re Losing)
I would be lying if I said I was surprised the Ontario Liberals and their paid for lackeys at the Ontario Sustainable Energy Association and Environmental Defense had conniption fits…
Green Party of Canada: Focus on the Future, Part III: Politics
In my first two blogposts of this series, I took a look at a couple of things. First, I took a look at where the Green Party has come from…
The Lang-O’Stanford Exchange
I was invited last week to serve as the substitute host for the indomitable Kevin O’Leary on CBC News channel’s “Lang-O’Leary Exchange.” Amanda Lang introduced the show by saying, “Hello,…
Salimah Valiani on “Valuing the Invaluable”: Care Work in Canada
PEF member Salimah Valiani is now the research economist at the Ontario Nurses Association. Just in time for Mothers’ Day ONA released a most excellent paper by Salimah, titled: Valuing…