Tory majority still out of reach despite first-week gains, polls suggest - The Globe and Mail http://goo.gl/5LaVs Thank God ! The Conservatives are projected to win 150 seats and 38.8…
Cross posted from Murray Dobbin's blog. Murray is a member of the Catch 22 Campaign team. ============================= I have just come across an article written by Stephen Harper and Tom…
About to leave for some more canvassing. Sign placement is going well. If you live in the riding and would like to have a lawn sign, please let me know…
Last week I was in Dallas, at the annual March meeting of the American Physical Society, attended by members of the Division of Condensed Matter and Computational physics. For different…
The Green Party is getting great publicity from their exclusion from the televised debate. They should have been ready to turn that into something electorally significant, instead of simply crowing…
VIRTUALLY SPEAKING SUNDAY APRIL 3 A Counterpoint to the Sunday Morning Talking Heads @4pm pacific|7pm eastern - DAN ELLSBERG & GLENN GREENWALD: WikiLeaks, the abuse of Bradley Manning and the…
CANADIAN POLITICS WINNIPEG: HARPER ESCAPES RIDICULE BY THE SKIN OF HIS TEETH: Here it was last Tuesday, and Molly was zipping along the roads of Winnipeg dodging the spring crop…
There's little chance that Jack Layton will get a fair reading of his platform and people's response to it from the mainstream Canadian media. A great example of this is…
For 2015-2016 if the budget is balanced. Maybe. Meanwhile, Michael Ignatieff and his Liberal team have put together a platform for families that aims to strengthen Canada through investment, education,…
Some random thoughts on the election: Stephen Harper, who not so long ago touted himself as the champion of "open and accountable" government, will only answer five questions a day…
Its been just over a week since the writ dropped and the 41st federal election was announced. Its been a wild one, to be sure. Here’s the Readers Digets version…
The Rise to Power, In Opposition and Before 2004 – 2006 When the 38th parliament fell in Nov 2005 the mantra from Mr Harper was about bringing in an “Open…
The enitrety of info about hyperdecantenation in Incredible edibles, a recent article about molecular gastronomy in the New Yorker:They also claim to have a way of improving wine by “hyperdecanting”…
With the Conservatives at the helm since 2006, Québec now only contributes eleven members to the governing party in Ottawa. With the prospect of a Conservative majority government, and perhaps…
Yesterday, Stephen Harper brought a campaign issue that literally no one else was thinking about. He informed the public that a Harper majority government would remove the per0vote subsidy that…
Yesterday, Stephen Harper brought a campaign issue that literally no one else was thinking about. He informed the public that a Harper majority government would remove the per0vote subsidy that…
Yesterday, Stephen Harper brought a campaign issue that literally no one else was thinking about. He informed the public that a Harper majority government would remove the per0vote subsidy that…
Yesterday, Stephen Harper brought a campaign issue that literally no one else was thinking about. He informed the public that a Harper majority government would remove the per0vote subsidy that…
Hey there, election season in Canada is here. Can you smell the ballot papers, the baby powder, the stench of hateful attack ads? Doesn’t make you feel alive… Well, unfortunately…
I am reluctant to use words like "douchebag" in daily conversation. There are, and have been, a number of politicians for whom I have little regard, but for whom I…
