Legacy of sports or legacy of debts?
Heaven help Hamilton on this one. Another round of Pan Am chicken.No sooner did it seem we call Red Hat owner Bob Young's bluff and offer to do a renovation…
Canada Politics
Real questions for less than real Ontario leaders
Dear Leaders:I have made the decision that unless one of you does something so egregious that it merits a comment I will not -- will not --make any running commentary…
If you want to win votes, play the ethnic card
It's true.It's how the GOP have been able to divide and conquer for most of the last 3 decades in the States, it's worked marvelously well for the Cons in…
Who to lead the progressive torch (es) ?
It may not happen during the current cycle, but I think it is inevitable -- despite the huge gap that exists in a number of policy fields between the Liberals…
DSK walks
In probably his most humiliating moment since becoming Manhattan's DA, Cyrus Vance Jr has dropped all seven charges against Dominique Strauss Kahn in the allegation that he raped a hotel…
RIP Jack Layton
Shocking news within the last hour, that Jack Layton, leader of the federal New Democrats, has died.How this shakes down and what it means for Parliament is anyone's guess, but…
Trademark this ™ (part 473)
The federal Conservative Party ™ can't have it both ways. It is going after a retired university professor who is using the party's logo within an ad banner on her…
Adieu, Wendy
It's hard to imagine a world without Wendy Babcock. She died three days ago at the age of 32. After a truly horrible life including life on the streets as…
Latest Fed decision, and de Tocqueville on bombastic simpletons
The US Fed dropped its usual pretentiousness and the technocratic language often used in its statements on interest rate decisions and was remarkably clear in yesterday's decision, in which it…
When "Free Trade" ain’t free
In the absence of any long term prospect for a Free Trade Area of the Americas, Canada has decided to go it alone and try for bilateral agreements. This started…
The other shoe drops in the States
Finally, at least one of the bond rating agencies in the United States has owned up to its hypocrisies -- and slapped down the country's long standing credit rating, from…
$10 million is the new $137 million
Only in Hamilton. When Ontario deregulated power in 2002 (huge mistake still, in my opinion) it was left to the local utilities on what to do with the new local…
All the "easy" oil and gas may be gone, but still …
While most regions of Canada have imposed moratoriums on "fracking," using jackhammers and / or high pressure water injections to get out natural gas, one province -- British Columbia --…
What if what happened in Norway, happened here?
If what happened last weekend in Norway -- the murders of 70+ people -- were to happen here in Canada, what would our reaction be? Would we retrench and abandon…
Where to build the so-called "Road to Nowhere"? There’s really no where else to put it
Now this is interesting ... the "Canadian Transit Company," which sounds like a coalition of the urban public transit providers in Canada but is in fact the Canadian face of…
How low will Rupert go?
Former British PM Gordon Brown has gone on the offensive against Rupert Murdoch. He stated today that while both PM as well as Tony Blair's Chancellor, his banking records and…
Canada boycotts arms meeting
I rarely agree with the Harper Government on anything. But on this one, I do. We have every right, indeed the duty, to boycott a disarmament conference if the country…
TSX shareholders stand up for Canada
The proposed merger between the Toronto and London Stock exchanges has just been called off -- after a count of the proxy votes determined that there was only a simple…
Mail moves again
So the postal workers are going back and the mail starts moving tomorrow. Just as well, but there were much better ways to settle the issue than a forced wage…
H of C like the Pink Bunny — they keep going and going and …
... going and going ... the debate in Parliament on the back to work legislation for the locked out workers at the Canada Post Corporation, that is. (Kady O'Malley has…