Prime Minister working to get Canadians in Libya home
The Prime Minister today announced a bold new plan to retrieve Canadians remaining abroad in crisis-torn Libya. "The wheels are already in motion" said Cowboy Steve. Canada will pick up…
10 Ways Scott Walker Is Selling Out His Constituents to Corporations
Peacenik read this list of stuff the GOP is doing in Wisconsin and Peacenik realized that there is no common ground. All 10 of these GOP actions are insane. You…
10 Ways Scott Walker Is Selling Out His Constituents to Corporations
Peacenik read this list of stuff the GOP is doing in Wisconsin and Peacenik realized that there is no common ground. All 10 of these GOP actions are insane. You…
10 Ways Scott Walker Is Selling Out His Constituents to Corporations
Peacenik read this list of stuff the GOP is doing in Wisconsin and Peacenik realized that there is no common ground. All 10 of these GOP actions are insane. You…
10 Ways Scott Walker Is Selling Out His Constituents to Corporations
Peacenik read this list of stuff the GOP is doing in Wisconsin and Peacenik realized that there is no common ground. All 10 of these GOP actions are insane. You…
How to Create a Structural Deficit
A fantastically clear post from Stephen Gordon on how we went from persistent surpluses to a structural deficit. Really should go read it, or at least have a look at…
Breaking news–Alberta gets less than fair share of Order of Canada medals!
It must have been a slow news day in Ottawa; the Ottawa Citizen actually assigned someone the responsibility to do an analysis of Order of Canada recipients to determine if…
Book club summary #29 – Show Me The Numbers
Given the overriding importance of data presentation (read graphing skills) to the effectiveness of the modern “knowledge worker” it was decided that the book club would cover a book on…
Training week…
(originally written Jan 25) I’m in training pretty much the whole week — which fact one of my horoscopes must’ve predicted. I mean, there are so many of them floating…
Top 10 Movies You Might Not Have Heard Of *
*(but should definitely see) As some of you may have heard, I recently had the honour of being appointed as the Assistant Returning Officer for Halton with Elections Canada. It's…
Top 10 Movies You Might Not Have Heard Of *
*(but should definitely see) As some of you may have heard, I recently had the honour of being appointed as the Assistant Returning Officer for Halton with Elections Canada. It’s…
Top 10 Movies You Might Not Have Heard Of *
*(but should definitely see)As some of you may have heard, I recently had the honour of being appointed as the Assistant Returning Officer for Halton with Elections Canada. It's a…
Top 10 Movies You Might Not Have Heard Of *
*(but should definitely see) As some of you may have heard, I recently had the honour of being appointed as the Assistant Returning Officer for Halton with Elections Canada. It’s…
Brakeless Trains – My Take
(Note to philosophers: this represents only my take on the brakeless trains example, and is not intended to be a full and accurate depiction of Russell's argument (and does not…
Eliot dances along to the guitar marathon
My son Eliot dancing along to his Grandpa Duane’s 48 hour guitar marathon. The guitar marathon is still going on for another 10 hours and you can watch the live…
Eliot dances along to the guitar marathon
My son Eliot dancing along to his Grandpa Duane's 48 hour guitar marathon. The guitar marathon is still going on for another 10 hours and you can watch the live…
Eliot dances along to the guitar marathon
My son Eliot dancing along to his Grandpa Duane’s 48 hour guitar marathon. The guitar marathon is still going on for another 10 hours and you can watch the live…
Information is Essential.
With a federal election possibly in the offing in the near future I have been checking up on the actions of my current member of parliament. In doing so I…
Anglo-Québécois musicians
The recent success of Montréal band Arcade Fire at the Grammys, BRIT awards and Shockwaves NME Awards has given exposure to a sensitive issue in Québec. How do English-speaking musicians…