Why Ms Redford will be Confirmed as PC Leader: The Wikipedia Factor
The pundits say Ms Redford will be confirmed as PC party leader. They’re right, but not for the reasons they think. Here’s why: The party cannot endure another leadership campaign.…
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National Post Could Use a Better Headline Writer #cdnpoli #PMO
Andrew Coyne: Stephen Harper’s story — and reputation — still hanging on by a thread Look, it’s still possible for the MSM to cling to the narrative that the PM…
Thinking upstream — new institute invites us to think differently about health and politics
Dr. Ryan Meili has received considerable attention for his short 2012 book A Healthy Society: How a Focus on Health can Revive Canadian Democracy. Little did we know that the…
Defending WikiLeaks and Whistleblowers
1:08:38 SFU History grad, Sean Tucker of Business Administration, “I don’t know if we need a Whistleblower policy on campus or something”. An academic has their priorities askew if they…
Canadian Uranium Subsidies to Kazakhstan
Here’s an important story for Canadians, and Saskatchewanians in particular, which doesn’t have to do with the Riders or the Senate scandal. The Green Party of Saskatchewan (GPS) wants to…
A quote from a former opposition leader:
At worst, he personally ordered it done and chose the people who executed the plan. At the very least, he fostered an attitude within the party , chose the managers…
Windsor: Cancer Care Ontario finds out the hard way about community engagement
Score one for the Windsor community. After Cancer Care Ontario (CCO) told the Windsor Regional Hospital that it had to transfer thoracic cancer surgeries to London or else, CCO found…
#Duffy Senate Expense Scandal Explained
Take 15 minutes, and listen to the last 5 years of Canadian politics be summed up off the top of my head. What’s the PM’s next lie? Pretend he was…
Harper Knew of $90,000 #PMO Wright to Duffy “Bribe”
CBC was reporting that RCMP are calling the payment between Wright and Duffy a “bribe” and “breach of trust”. No charges yet. How come there are no charges from the…
Royal Ottawa — prosecutions fly below the radar
The Ministry of Labour inspectors have significant powers when it comes to enforcing the Occupational Health and Safety Act. What’s difficult to discern is where the dividing line is between…
ConCalls: Witnesses to #RoboCon Scrutinized
Andrew Prescott got instructions from Jenni Byrne to avoid Elections Canada until she could consult a lawyer. Prescott’s work on the Guelph Conservative campaign in 2011 earned him notoriety for…
Exposing Rob Ford
This, I’m sure, will become a daily post – there are so many lies and half-truths that it’s hard to keep track. But since Rob and Doug Ford seem to…
The (Frightening) Genius of Ford
You heard it here first: Rob Ford is a genius and will likely win the Mayoral race next year.
Ferry Tales Can Come True…..
BC Ferries to cut sailings, seniors’ discounts, add slot machines Transportation Minister Todd Stone says cuts will save $19 million by 2016 CBC News Posted: Nov 18, 2013 7:01 AM…
A single question that could change how we approach population health
In all the talk about health care sustainability we lose sight of the fact that the interventions that cost the least and are likely to have the biggest impact on…
Is there a cure?
In what I presume is an attempt to seem sensitive, and not schadenfreude-istic, many people who want Mayor Ford to step down say that they want the Mayor to seek…
Trained to Wreck
What’s with short term (and long term) memory loss in this country? This is the ugliest, most disturbing thing I've ever seen in Canadian politics. youtube.com/watch?v=gHMDQc…— Andrew Coyne (@acoyne) November…
Nervous Norvus
A song from my childhood was on the satellite radio this evening. Transfusion, by Nervous Norvus. I looked him up on YouTube. He passed away a good many decades ago…