Ontario Votes Today!!
I don't have much else to say right now but if you are still unsure today, take a look through my blog entries over the past month or so and…
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Where’s that Firewall?
Toronto needs to give its head a shake and throw out these university-educated, latte-sipping, cultural elitists, and tell them to stay out of Alberta's politics! Where's that firewall?A Toront...
Depression Not Out of the Question
Watch our “economist” Primer Minister manage us into a economic depression (and ecological depression).
Thanks Steve
I still remember fondly the first computer ever to find its way into the family home. The Apple IIe was magic, allowing these clumsy finger to type badly, then delete…
Power Workers Union caught astroturfing
I believe PWU official John Sprackett when he tells Postmedia that social media is new territory for the PWU. It's a plausible form of denial given how bad unions are…
Sexism knows no political boundaries
While typically seen as the domain of regressive fundamentalist Christians who believe a woman’s place is in the kitchen, subservient to her husband, left-wingers are not immune to the issue.…
It’s the thought that counts
While I’m not generally an NPA-supporter, I support good ideas regardless of where they originate. And Jason Lamarche, an NPA candidate for Vancouver City Council, has a good idea. The…
Hey Mr. Jobs!
Thanks. Share and Enjoy: Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Tory Candidate Blames Campaign Troubles on Tim Hudak
More Tory troubles. This time, however, it's with an active Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario candidate who comes clean about how difficult it is to deliver her leader's divisive and…
Great week for an election….
…and golf! It really is October, right? I wonder if any researcher has ever run a statistical analysis of the correlation between weather conditions on E Day and the success…
Occupy Wall St. – Letters to friends and family, and an overview of what is unfolding now
What is happening is momentus. It could go wrong, it could fizzle out, or it could be co-opted, but at present, by all I can see, it is hopeful: here…
SFL Labour Issues Campaign
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Translink: It’s the policy, that policy won’t change, and there’s no one you can speak to about it.
Pardon me for a rant about my commute. And about Translink. I hardly think it’s acceptable for a public organization that trumpets public consultation, taxes us, is governed by an…
Design Regina – Larry Beasley
We can fix Regina at the same time that the urban health and community issue is being better understood across Canada. The problem is that most people live outside of…
Ontario’s Next Premier: Andrea Horwath
The media gave her scant attention. But that didn’t stop Ontario NDP leader Andrea Horwath from proving that she’s the best person to lead Canada’s economic and social heartbeat after…
The Sunny Way
The Sunny Way? This is, of course, one of Aesop’s fables and a favorite story of Wilfred Laurier. It’s a story about persuasion being superior to force, to working with…
Let’s open all the books
It’s no secret that the Harper Conservatives hate unions. They’ve repeatedly emphasized how the NDP is beholden to Big Labour and tried to force an inquiry into partial union sponsorship…
At least there’s one victory for the Liberals…
….as PEI can welcome another Grit government for 4 more years! Congrats! And, as a sidebar, the Cons kept true to form in using personal attacks during the campaign to…
Ontario projection… just for the hell of it…
Yeah, yeah… I and everyone else was off base last time when all of we so-called “pundits” tried to pick the outcome of the May 2 election. And I have…
Who Won PEI?
Yesterday PEI had an election where they re-elected the Liberal government. The Liberals got 22 and the PC got 5 seats. No some would claim that since the PC won…