When Charles Sousa unwraps his Ontario budget on Thursday there likely won’t be any new money for expanding hospital infrastructure. Coming out of the Harris era, the McGuinty/Wynne government faced…
More than one critic has noted that Russia doesn’t manufacture anything the world wants (a knock that now can be laid against Canada, especially since the dramatic fall of Blackberry…
Gymnast fun at Muscle Beach. Lots of walking. Space Shuttle Endeavor at the ScienCenter. Griffith’s Observatory Micheli’s off Hollywood Bl. Since 1949, it’s been my favourite place to eat in…
I Live Tweeted the Vision Vancouver-sponsored event “Protecting Vancouver’s Cultural Spaces: How we can preserve culture in a growing city”- You can search the hashtag #VanCulturalSpaces for related tweets on…
Each year more Ontarians lose their lives through their job than by criminal homicide. It’s a sobering thought. In 2012 the WSIB reported 254 workplace-related fatalities and more than 140,000…
Some behind the scenes numbers about Elections Canada’s impotent investigation into illegal robocalls… 81. At the national level, the Conservative Party, using data from its Constituent Information Management System (CIMS)…
There are those like Stephen Harper who repeatedly say we must choose between economic development and sustainable development. And there are those who, concerned about the environment and the latest…
Saturday morning at 3:50 was wakeup time to be at the airport on time for the first flight to Calgary. Everything went smoothly and we were in San Diego by…
http://montrealsimon.blogspot.ca/2014/04/the-monster-burger-and-inner-torment-of.html It’s even creepier than you know, Simon..yesterday, our NDP politicians here in BC were speaking to the media after a meeting with the Victoria, BC TFWs that will “not…
The now-famous cell-phone camera shot of Ms. Redford dining with her daughter at Lulu California Bistro in Palm Springs, grabbed from the Internet. VICTORIA, B.C. Truth be told, former premier…
"I'm speaking with you as a human being and you're talking at me as a politician."— Melissa Fong (@internationalmf) April 21, 2014 When you ask me to open up
The current debate over paid plasma donation has brought out a number of patient groups – including those funded by big-pharma – that are suggesting Canada has no choice but…
If Canada’s “SIGINT” (Signals Intelligence) agency doesn’t have records to share with Elections Canada of malicious #robocalls made outside of Canada aimed at disrupting our federal election, then what good…
Listening to a political speech the other day was a disappointing experience. The speech was by someone who already had our vote. You just wished he cared enough about the…
Awwwww, everybody drinks to much, just like the National Post says! Fuggedaboudit. Look at these young guys, partying it up at 24 Sussex Drive! Below: Ben Harper in 2010. VICTORIA,…
http://elpais.com/elpais/2014/04/24/inenglish/1398330641_511126.html Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: Eurozone Crisis, finance, neoliberalism, Spain
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/24/spain-restricting-protest-fines-harassment-excessive-force Filed under: Uncategorized
All the election talk raises the question of whether the opposition parties will pull the plug on the present minority government before passage of a bill that will ban paid…
Despite audio evidence of widespread illegal robocals, the Commishioner of Elections Canada has announced “no offenses committed”! @DonMartinCTV @nspector4 "We didn't find anything because we weren't allowed to find anything"….…
On Qualitative research, lessons on IE & Political opportunities: Anecdotes are not just for discourse analysis- They can also reveal structures of power that position people differently and relationally. Anecdotes
