Counting your results before the people vote
Very interesting: In a flash sample poll conducted last weekend on 400 decided voters, Ipsos Reid found that the gap between Hudak and McGuinty continues to narrow. Of those polled,…
Canadian Politics
Political tidbits
This is stupid. If you don’t like the Mayor of Toronto, you vote against him next municipal election (or his councillors that support him). You don’t utter death threats, or…
Um, To Be Brainwashed, I Believe One First Has To Have A BRAIN.
by matttbastard If Toronto City Councillor Giorgio Mammoliti wasn’t real, some enterprising young sketch comedian would have to invent him (and subsequently cash in on the character with a marginally…
Pierre "Bourqueing" Up the Wrong Tree
For the past couple of years and certainly through the recent federal election campaign, Pierre Bourque's Newswatch has been one of the more balanced general news sources out there. His…
A rather meaningless poll
I see Nanos is trumpeting a poll that says the Conservatives have fallen back into minority territory, while the Liberals have made big gains. It’s nice to see Conservative support…
The Debt Deal and Defense Spending
Defense spending factors into the recent deal to avert the entirely political debt "crisis" in a couple of ways. Firstly, amazingly, the deal actually increases defense spending in a certain…
On that whole Nycole Turmel thing …
While we're on the subject of journalistic ethics, let me just cite pogge and thwap. They've already said it better than I can.From pogge:Every year or two I find a…
Shared IT Services across the Canadian Government – three opportunities
Earlier this week the Canadian Federal Government announced it will be creating Shared Services Canada which will absorb the resources and functions associated with the delivery of email, data centres…
Relentlessly Progressive Political Economy 2011-08-04 21:19:02
The left would do well to dwell on the fact we have seen this film before. At some point we need an adult conversation about capitalism and not just when…
The Right Wing Commentariat is getting Desperate
JuysTerence Corcoran Just go read Terence Corcoran’s latest in the National Post. Never mind that the world was plunged into economic crisis by unregulated financial institutions; and near fully captured…
The food insecure amongst us
Every year the UN-OCHA (Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) says that 3-4 million (always different) subsistence farmers and pastoralists in a variety of different regions in Ethiopia are…
We’ve seen this movie before..
A day or so ago, Harper came out at the Mayor of Toronto’s private picnic calling for a defeat of the Ontario Liberal government, which was published on Youtube. Some…
A non-NDP contrarian POV on how much Turmel’s political affiliations will hurt the NDP
I’ve been on vacation this week and viewing the controversy over Nycole Turmel, the NDP interim leader who has a recent BQ past and still supports Action Solidaire today –…
defend free speech: help the canadian arab federation beat jason kenney in court
From Defend Free Speech:Help CAF beat Jason Kenney in federal court!An urgent appeal for support. Please make a donation today.Over two years ago, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Jason Kenney…
Canada ♥s Libraries
A QMI poll released today revealed that 84% of Canadians want our public libraries to remain publicly funded (7% refused to answer the question.) Now, I know the brothers Ford…
Doug Ford as Ozymandias (or How I learned to story worrying and love libraries.)
“When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that society has found one more way to destroy itself.” -…
Sunmedia’s business model – attack the CBC
A brief observation: Wherever I turn, whether it be Ezra Levant’s raving on in the Sun tabloids, or Brian Lilley on SunTv, or even David Akin on Twitter questioning CBC…
All the best to Jack Layton
It was with some shock that I saw yesterday that Mr. Layton was temporarily stepping down as NDP leader (and leader of the Official Opposition) because of new cancer discovered…
The Facts About India’s Infant “Sex Changes”
Canadian and international press outlets reported last month that in India, the preference to have male children is so strong that parents are having their female infants surgically assigned (a.k.a.…
I guess the ‘almighty dollar’ spoke
Apparently, a majority government has changed the Conservative’s attitudes towards China: Canada’s relationship with China will be the “centrepiece” of its Asian diplomatic ties, said Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird…