Animal Alliance Environment Voters Party of Canada?
Considering we now have an AAEVPC candidate running for Parliament in Newmarket Aurora I figured we should have a quick look at them. First of all they need to come…
Cities Running Huge Risks by Ignoring Climate Change II: UN Habitat Report PDFs
I've been amazed at how little attention UN Habitat's Report on Cities and Climate Change has garnered since its release at the end of March. The report (which I contributed…
South March Highlands and Carp Hills – NCC Role in Protecting Natural Environment Lands: Beyond The Greenbelt
This post is also being sent via email to National Capital Commission CEO Marie Lemay ( Marie.Lemay@ncc-ccn.ca )click on map to enlargeThe National Capital Commission has recently published maps identifying…
Campaign Strength/Weakness Observation
For a PM who didn't want to do any stimulus spending, and took Parliament to the brink over it in 2008, Harper certainly has reaped considerable political leverage with the…
It’s time to stop the Stephen Harper Gravy Train
Where's Rob Ford when you need him.{Video by liberalvideo}Please send LVD your political and news videos and clips.
It’s time to stop the Stephen Harper Gravy Train
Where’s Rob Ford when you need him.{Video by liberalvideo} Please send LVD your political and news videos and clips.
It’s time to stop the Stephen Harper Gravy Train
Where's Rob Ford when you need him.{Video by liberalvideo}Please send LVD your political and news videos and clips.
It’s time to stop the Stephen Harper Gravy Train
Where’s Rob Ford when you need him.{Video by liberalvideo} Please send LVD your political and news videos and clips.
Bixi Sighting: New Ads Mark Roll Out of 2011 Bikes
Here are some of the first bixis of 2011, notice anything different? New ads, mounted above the wheel and on the baskets, have raised a lot of criticism on Twitter…
Post-debate musings
One of the nice perks of being bilingual is that you can watch Canada's political leaders debate in both languages without having to listen to their interpreters. I watched both…
Transcript of the 2011 French language federal leaders’ debate…in English!
Added April 21: Okay, because at some point it becomes truly depressing to see people earnestly asking for debate transcripts over Twitter and getting provided endless copies of this link,…
Canada.com-It’s time to talk about abolishing the monarchy
I got another piece published on the front page of Canada.com in the “Real Agenda.” This time I argue that it’s time to due away with the monarchy. It’s time…
Things that make you go hmmm…..
While reading this article I found a link to this article in the Star. Now the main thrust of the article was a cheesy attempt by a Tory candidate to…
Rebecca Black Loves Friday and So Should You
How is it that with all those machines and Mexicans, most of us still have to work 40 hours a week (and waste our best years in school for the…
2 votes, 2 weeks
May 11th. Just over one week after the federal election, myself and voters of Vancouver-Point Grey will be going back to the polls to vote for/against Christy Clark in the…
Meet the Thought-Controlled Car – and a Motherlode of Potential Political Applications
The thought controlled car, or BrainDriver, by Autonomos Labs in Germany has been in development for four or five years and has already been demoed. The applications would be many.…
Where is a god when you need one
Because if there was one handy, Stockwell Day would spend his after life rotting in hell. This former evangelical minister, ex-leader of the reform party and now retiring ex-menial, minister,…
Debate post script
For the second night in a row, I didn't watch the Leaders' debate (there was an all-candidates debate in York Centre tonight which featured an equally jarring Tory candidate, but…
French Debate Kicked Ass (mostly Harper’s)
I hope people were watching, because tonight's French-language leaders' debate was lively, passionate and substantive. After fighting sleep at about the half-way point in yesterday's English-language debate, tonight I found…