On the TSX-LSE Affair: A Modest Proposal
London: Canadians have received countless assurances that the deal to conjoin the TSX with the London Stock Exchange in a 45-55 deal will bestow only positive results on Toronto and…
Moncton’s Future
I attended an open house to discuss the city planning exercise with various city officials on Wednesday at the city's L'Odyssée High School (they let the students name the school…
Talking Points Memo: "Japan eclipsed by China as world’s second economy"
"Japan lost its 42-year ranking as the world's second-biggest economy to China in 2010, with data out Monday showing a contraction in the last quarter due to weak consumer spending…
Talking Points Memo: "Japan eclipsed by China as world’s second economy"
“Japan lost its 42-year ranking as the world’s second-biggest economy to China in 2010, with data out Monday showing a contraction in the last quarter due to weak consumer spending…
Talking Points Memo: "Japan eclipsed by China as world’s second economy"
"Japan lost its 42-year ranking as the world's second-biggest economy to China in 2010, with data out Monday showing a contraction in the last quarter due to weak consumer spending…
Talking Points Memo: "Japan eclipsed by China as world’s second economy"
“Japan lost its 42-year ranking as the world’s second-biggest economy to China in 2010, with data out Monday showing a contraction in the last quarter due to weak consumer spending…
United States of Embarassment
I've said it time and time again that governments, specifically the United States and the Canadian variety do not condone peaceful protests. Take this latest example of Ray McGovern being…
Metro column: Social media are game changers
There’s a movement afoot and it is going to affect the makeup of the Alberta legislature moving forward. Each of the three provincial parties without a leader now officially has…
Where is Harper’s Firewall?
Remember when S. Harper worked for the Fraser Institute and wrote that Alberta needed a great firewall to protect it from the federal government?Well, here are some measures enacted by…
Ars Technica, Wired: "The Real Internet Censors: Unaccountable ISPs?"
"...a new report suggests that nations are slowly turning ISPs into the off-duty information cops of the world. Eager to placate politicians in order to achieve their own goals (like…
Ars Technica, Wired: "The Real Internet Censors: Unaccountable ISPs?"
“…a new report suggests that nations are slowly turning ISPs into the off-duty information cops of the world. Eager to placate politicians in order to achieve their own goals (like…
Ars Technica, Wired: "The Real Internet Censors: Unaccountable ISPs?"
"...a new report suggests that nations are slowly turning ISPs into the off-duty information cops of the world. Eager to placate politicians in order to achieve their own goals (like…
Ars Technica, Wired: "The Real Internet Censors: Unaccountable ISPs?"
“…a new report suggests that nations are slowly turning ISPs into the off-duty information cops of the world. Eager to placate politicians in order to achieve their own goals (like…
Kaberle The Great
It’s hard enough to see a great player leave your organization for another club, but its even harder to see a great person leave even more. Tomas Kaberle, the long…
Cities, Green Development, & Politics: Passing the Buck or Jumpstarting Change?
I've been meaning to write about Steve Cohen (director of Columbia Universty's Earth Institute) Valentine's Day piece in the Huffington Post since it came out on Monday. It's an interesting…
No Conservatives Here
This post reminded me of something I'd been meaning to write for a while. In it, Joseph Uranowski argues that we shouldn't call the Conservative Party of Canada "Tories", because…
Fixing Parliament
I got to page 3 of this article and then stopped because it was too depressing. So the question is how do you fix it? For Conservatives the answer is…
Radical States: GOP Forcing Their Nightmarish Right-Wing Vision on People Who Elected Them
The scary thing is that these people are getting elected in the first place. The U.S.A. is a very sick place, Culturally, politically and economically. And it may take more…
Radical States: GOP Forcing Their Nightmarish Right-Wing Vision on People Who Elected Them
The scary thing is that these people are getting elected in the first place. The U.S.A. is a very sick place, Culturally, politically and economically. And it may take more…
Radical States: GOP Forcing Their Nightmarish Right-Wing Vision on People Who Elected Them
The scary thing is that these people are getting elected in the first place. The U.S.A. is a very sick place, Culturally, politically and economically. And it may take more…