Hudak’s hopes that we have short memories …
This fall's election in Ontario is going to be pretty exciting if for no other reason than two of the three candidates for Premier represent Hamilton districts. Andrea Horwath represents…
Canada Politics
Vancouver goes berserk — again
I had a feeling that the Boston Bruins were going to win this year's Frederick A. Stanley Cup -- yes, the guy's first name was Fred -- but what happened…
Uphold the sex workers’ decision
This week the Ontario Court of Appeal is hearing arguments in the case involving three sex trade workers who have asked to have three sections of the Criminal Code, as…
Simplify the tax system and give us back the lost decade and a half
My beef this Sunday morning is taxes. I haven't had much time to think about the "revised" federal budget, and there's not much point in tearing it apart, any honest…
Reform the Senate but do it constitutionally
As reported this morning by the Canadian Press and posted at HuffPo, Québec is serving notice that if Harper continues with his plans to unilaterally "reform" the Senate, it will…
Germany says auf weidersehen to nuke plants
Germany's centre-right coalition announced this morning that it is getting out of the nuclear power business entirely. All seventeen of its plants will be closed by 2022 at the latest.…
HuffPo takes on the Great White North
What a pleasant surprise when I saw the other day that Arianna Huffington launched a Canadian version of the Huffington Post. I was annoyed, as were other users, that for…
SCOTUS: California prisons overcrowded — duh
Yesterday, the US Supreme Court said that California is in violation of its own consent decree regarding prison conditions related to overcrowding -- an unfortunate result of the well intentioned…
Obama: 1967 borders, please
It's quite the provocation in the minds of many, but Barack Obama has done an almost complete reversal of what he said when campaigning in 2008. At a meeting of…
When settlement groups go astray
Several months back, there was a huge storm when PMS cut off funding for Hamilton based SISO, the Settlement and Integration Services Organization effectively forcing it to close down. At…
Flooding on purpose
I suppose desperate times call for desperate measures, hence today's forced flood in rural Manitoba to destroy a hundred or so homes in order to save another 1000 or more.…
Day after …
Results (unofficial): Conservatives 162 NDP 102 Liberals 34 Bloc 4 Green 1 Mr Harper may well have his long sought majority now, but he needs to understand that while he…
Vote 2011, and "that guy"
It's all over but the voting and please make sure you do vote today. Remember it's "ass-a-hole-as" like Osama Bin Laden who believe that democracy is a sin against God.…
The housing problem in the Great White North
Strangely I have had little to say about this year's election in Canada. I can't understand why since there appears to be an actual race and Jack Layton of the…
Harper shuts students out
I've been away from this space for a while but I feel I have to speak up about the news that some people were kicked out of Conservative events on…
Contempt!
Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines. We're headed for yet another election. In the last hour the House of Commons voted 156-145 to find Stephen Harper guilty of contempt of…
Final Countdown … [video]
As we approach the Final Countdown to what is almost certainly going to be a no-confidence vote based on contempt of Parliament tomorrow -- a first anywhere in the Commonwealth…
World strikes back against Libya
I've often felt that military intervention is warranted when there are gross human rights violations, but often it has not happened where it was most needed or when it was…
Double contempt, cheap shot
Technical issues have kept me off this forum for a few days .. so I'm going to comment on a couple of things at once -- the double contempt finding…
Breaking Through (the bs of questionable campaigning)
Courting the "ethnic vote" is a tradition in any democracy. But there's a right way and a wrong way to do it. The Cons sending out an action plan on…